The golden age for American Jews is over — and wow was it short
Considering the 'eminent' lives of Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan and Norman Mailer, David Denby ponders the end of an era
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The author of 'Slaughterhouse Five' and 'Cat's Cradle' considered himself part of Joseph Heller and Norman Mailer's generation
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Culture From That White Suit To That Feud With Chomsky: Reflections On Tom Wolfe
The writer Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of the literary movement known as the New Journalism — alongside the likes of Joan Didion, Gay Talese and Jimmy Breslin — passed away on Monday at age 88. Wolfe, who was notably verbose and only slightly less notably eager to get into scraps with his peers,…
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Culture Norman Mailer Never Hurt Women, Biographer Claims, Forgetting He Stabbed His Wife
Norman Mailer, who passed away in 2007, remains a big deal kind of writer: Big enough for the Library of America to be releasing a two-volume edition of his selected books and essays, big enough for his namesake 2004 episode of “Gilmore Girls” to continue to make lists of the show’s most notable and big…
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Culture From Mailer To Ginsberg, The Village Voice’s Greatest Contributions To Print Journalism
To the distress of many, iconic New York City weekly newspaper The Village Voice announced this week that it will cease producing a print issue. While a date for the final print issue has yet to be confirmed, the paper’s imminent absence from city newsstands sparked a keen mourning for what it once had been….
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Books Chasing the Ghost of Norman Mailer
● Norman Mailer, A Double Life By J. Michael Lennon Simon & Schuster, 960 pages, $40 While reading the first chapter of “Norman Mailer, A Double Life,” the exhaustive (and exhausting) new biography of the great man by J. Michael Lennon, I discovered that during his formative years, from the age of nine through his…
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News Lay-Offs Bring Curtain Down on Jewish Era at Village Voice
For much of its existence, the Village Voice was a paper where you could call a momzer a momzer and use just that term to do it. But the news in May that the out-of-town momzers who own the Voice had fired the paper’s last remaining signature writers — Michael Feingold, Michael Musto and Robert…
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