Norman Mailer: Naked and Dead!

[Recyclerz]

Well, I'm not sure about the naked part.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21721695/

By most accounts he was a prickly bastard, but he did write a few really great books.

Godspeed.

[Ritalin]

Sad.

Tough Guys Don't Dance is definitely on my most underrated book list. Not movie, book.

[Mike Teacher]

Not a thread yet? Delete if So.

I have this guys books all over my house; like Vonnegut and Wolfe...

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(CNN) -- Norman Mailer, the outspoken writer whose prize-winning works made him a towering figure on the American stage for more than 50 years, is dead. He was 84.

Mailer died about 4:30 a.m. Saturday at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, his literary executor, J. Michael Lennon, said.

Author of "The Naked and the Dead," "The Armies of the Night" and "The Executioner's Song," Mailer was probably the most famous of the generation of writers who came of age after World War II -- he was certainly the most colorful, and most pugnaciously so.

He wrote constantly: novels, screenplays, articles (he was a key figure in the "New Journalism" movement of the 1960s), poems, polemics. He co-founded the Village Voice. He was married six times.

And with his brawny physique and outsize personality, Mailer was never one to shy from a fight, whether physical -- he once stabbed his second wife after a party -- or literary. His feuds made headlines.

He ran for mayor of New York, agitated for left-wing causes (though his 1971 book, "The Prisoner of Sex," made him a pariah to the feminist movement) and led a drive to obtain parole for a talented convict, Jack Henry Abbott -- an act that backfired when Abbott killed a man not long after being freed.

CNN LINK (http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/11/10/mailer.obit/index.html)

[Mike Teacher]

Hmm guess I'm first anyway...

Born in Long Branch NJ !

Amazing we had em this long.

He wrote a weird book; lengthy, mostly fact but with a weird character in the story [Aquarius?] called 'Of A Fire On The Moon'

I'm gonna re-watch 'When We Were Kings'; Him and Plimpton have some great descriptions of the Insanity of the Ali/Foreman Zaire fight. Can't recommend this documentary enough.

'Miami and the Siege of Chicago' was my current read. Insane stuff. Very Thompson a la Campain Trail '72

Is the age of the Iconic Author gone? Cant remember last one that really blew the top of my head off, time and again.

[Hottub]

RIP you whiskey drinking, weed smoking, wife stabbing genius.


P.S. Mike, we don't lock anymore. 2.0 is a kinder, gentler messageboard. :WINK:

[Mike Teacher]

i Gracias !

[King Hippos Bandaid]

RIP

:king:

[DarkHippie]

I guess he's not gonna get to punch out Gore Vidal :(

Rest in Peace

[Rockvillejoe]

Think he is better known for his bad boy lifestyle then his literary achievements. Married 9 times, fight you at the drop of a hat, pot smoker, alcholol abuser, great writer. Nontheless, another colorful character is gone. In an interview, Mr B would have done more than many with this pugnacious prosewriter's persona. ER NEVER MIND!

[TheMojoPin]

Great, great author. Pity he had to go, but lucky for us he left a lot behind.

[Crispy123]

Was he naked at th time of death???

[thepaulo]

Last novel was released in 2007.....The Castle in the Forest.....
about Hitler and the demon sent to help him.

[PapaBear]

One of the last true manly men. RIP

[Marc with a c]

mr. mailer at his best.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8150850263045831787#29m10s