Thanks very much, Mr. Kimball. I was searching all over the Internet for an honest appraisal of Norman Mailer’s oeuvre and yours is the best. I thought he was an ersatz Hemingway, who really didn’t have the talent to match one of America’s greatest writers. A friend should have pulled him aside and said, “Look, Hemingway is dead and you really do not have the talent to fill his shoes.” Mailer did win Pulitzer Prizes but, fortunately, the Swedish academy never selected him for a Nobel. That is difficult to understand in light of their current Nobel Peace prize choices. I’m happy to say I read very few of Mailer’s books. His epitaph?: Exit the Clown.