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Born. To Norman Mailer, 34. novelist-chronicler of American sexual and other frustrations (The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park), and second wife Adele, 31: a daughter, their second child; in Manhattan. Name: Danielle Leslie. Weight...
Possibly people who like to read should concentrate in physics. Possibly they should read Lewis Mumford or Edmund Sinnott about whom they are not asked to have opinions, or Vardis Fisher of whom nobody has ever heard, or Norman Mailer, about whom nobody gives a damn. But most of all they should stop reading the opinions of Wilsons and Trillings, and start following their example. In award, they should treat them as artists, not connoisseurs
Something of Value, by Robert Ruark, was probably the most tastelessly written book of the year (unless it was Norman Mailer's The Deer Park). Around a hackneyed story, and leaning heavily on the writings of others about the Mau Mau troubles in Kenya, Columnist Ruark turned a determinedly lurid story into a top bestseller...
...Mailer has created a philosophy in this book that denies happiness without sex. There is no place in his world for ordi- nary morals or sentimentality--there is only room for what he calls "a good time." There is no religion, nor any idealism--only a desire to be free--and to be free, one must be able to choose whom he wants to sleep with. Thus Eitel in the end ultimately fails because he has married Elena out of pity and is forced to spend his nights with her. Sergius, on the other hand, escapes from Desert...
...Mailer has also attempted to make this book a psychological study of the leaders of the movie industry, as well as one of Congressional investigator, but the whole emphasis of the book is frankly on sex, and these other themes never achieve the impact Maller intended. By putting what seems to be unnecessary stress on the sleeping habits of his characters, Mailer has lost an excellent opportunity to write a fine moral on the mores of the movie industry