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Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007

Remembrances of Norman Mailer by Marlon Brando, Liz Smith, Irving Howe, Diana Trilling, Edward Abbey, Germaine Greer and other notables.
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  • Sunday, November 11, 2007 07:43 AM

    I'm so sick of hearing this, I MUST speak out

    Mailer has an uneasy feeling that Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, between them, have written everything worth writing

    If he'd read Babel or Bulgakov, he might have changed his mind.

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