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Norman Mailer, a dissenting view

November 10, 2007 - 11:48 am - by Roger Kimball
Dawn
2007-11-11 16:28:51

Greatest War Novels?

Hmmm…’Red Badge of Courage’ and ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ come to mind. No Mailer there, either.

And any man whose only way of defining women is via porn isn’t an intellectual, genius or artiste. He’s a creep at best. And Mailer never quite rose to the exhalted status of creep.