Norman Mailer: The dissent

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Edrants: “Mailer was so insecure, so arrogant, so unwilling to listen, that he took out advertisements in newspapers that panned his work.” Roger’s Rules: “It is difficult to say with confidence which of Mailer’s books is really his worst: he has managed to be truly awful in several distinct ways.”

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I’ve upped my vocabulary — Up yours!

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

My philanthropic friend Rachel offers up a challenging and eleemosynary website for our delectation: FreeRice. It’s a vocabulary game with a bonus — for every word you get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to end world hunger. Now, ten grains is not a lot of Oryza sativa, so let’s augment our vocabulary in [...]

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Norman Mailer

Posted on November 10, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough

Norman Mailer has died at the age of 84. I had heard he was in poor health, but I don’t think it occurred to me that Norman Mailer actually could die. Love him, hate him, Mailer made his mark on the world. I’ll miss him. The New York Times: “Mr. Mailer belonged to the old [...]

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