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...Norman Mailer does some more public paddling in the diminishing pool of his soul (in Paris Review). In Evergreen's all-German issue, Marianne Kesting reminisces about a seven-year-old visit to the late German playwright Bertolt Brecht...
Thus it is that he visits Ingmar Bergman and sees him as a Northern Protestant, a man reminiscent, incredibly enough, of "the black preachers of my childhood." In Norman Mailer, Baldwin finds a man who cannot give up what Baldwin terms "the myth of the sexuality of Negroes". Richard Wright to him is a tragic figure, a man who, by the time of his death, had estranged himself from American Negroes and who snubbed Africans, and so ended his life "wandering in a no-man's land between the black world and the white...
...essay on Wright is, actually, far better than the piece on Mailer, which for the most part consists of behind-the-literary-scenes action that doesn't throw much light on either Mailer or Baldwin. It is further disappointing for the way it glosses over Mailer's controversial wife-stabbing Greenwich Village party last Fall...
...benefit of a London newsman bemused by U.S. argot, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 38, set out to distinguish between hipsters and beatniks. Although the two groups "share a common experience and understand each other's language." pontificated Mailer, "they're utterly different. The hipster is a man of action, always on the move; the beatnik is contemplative, an amateur philosopher. Among world figures today, Kennedy is hip but won't admit it and Khrushchev is hip but doesn't know it." What about British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan? "Irreclaimably square...
...timid venture back to Butter field 8 country, intended to be a musical. O'Hara's long account in the preface of why Irving Berlin turned it down is almost as embarrassing as the moraine of first drafts, letters to the editor and encysted insults that Norman Mailer shored against his ruins in Advertisements For Myself...