Archive for January, 2010

The elderly Norman Mailer

I’m curious about Dwayne Raymond’s memoir of his friendship with Norman Mailer. See also When Mailer almost profiled Obama.

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Against Self-Reliance?

Should Emerson be ejected from the canon? Two professors say he writes like a crazy person and teaches students to do the same. Sonya Chung disagrees.

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Bender fiction

Aimee Bender really knows how to create a mood. A new story, “Faces,” appears in the current (print) Paris Review.

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Crispin on Gallant

Mavis Gallant’s heroines “are the awkward, the hopeless, the immature, the ones on the outside of womanhood looking in.”

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