#normal mailer

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[the-sad-stork]

Say what you will about Mailer and his cinematic output but this scene in Maidstone is endearingly “fruity”

[kremro]

[danskjavlarna]

Such is the power of wine.  It is, after all, the juice that comes from a dying grape—to get drunk is to know how it is to begin to die.

Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings  (What a truly amazing read!)

[yes-lukewinter]

some unfamiliar current, now gyroscopic, now a sluggish whirlpool, was evolving from the quiver [of that situation]

Normal Mailer, The Armies of the Night

[pulp--studios]

[catapultbooks]

Scott told dirty jokes on the wrong occasions, drank to excess, picked fights at parties, was unfaithful to all of her husbands, and constantly spent more than she earned. To raise money, she once charged admission to her own birthday party. “Who the fuck does she think she is?” said Norman Mailer, who later did the same thing.

Catapult | Great Scott

In “Great Scott,” Joanna Kavenna brilliantly skewers literary archetypes.

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