To sum:
1) Wannabe Hemingway
2) Self-promotion master
3) His works will not survive much longer.

Face it, Boomers. Unlike Hemingway, or a real novelist, Mailer only looms large because the Boomers thought his “rebellion” was cool (i.e. Althouse). No one, not even the Boomers actually READ his stuff, and no one will now.

He’ll be forgotten in another generation, after the Boomers follow him to the dirt.