On Norman Mailer

[rich]

I believe arthur schlesinger in his newly published dairies mentions a
conversation with Mailer about Pynchon and how Mailer couldn't finish
any of his books

Rich

On 11/11/07, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I, for one, would like to know TRPs thoughts on Norman
> at his passing. TRP seems to allude to a notion or metaphor
> of Mailer's once or twice (or more often?), and they were both engineer
> students with
> some deep feelings about technology and its discontents.
>
> But TRPs thoughts/opinions will stay with his closest, I'm sure.
>
> Does anyone know the possible truth of the story of Norman trying
> to visit, unbidden, a young TRP who supposedly fled out a window?
>
> It seems in all of his published comments on American writers of
> his lifetime, Norman had nothing to say about any of TRPs work,
> although in Esquire very early this year when attention was
> building for Norman for Castle in the Forest he said that he was looking
> forward
> to reading Against the Day....
>
> MK
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