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Topic: Norman Mailer

American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer (Victor Drees/Getty Images)

Mailer’s cancellation? An exaggeration

Alison Stine
Lucian Truscott playing with The Fugs at the Mudd Club in 1982 (Photo provided by Lucian Truscott, taken by then girlfirend)

When I was in the Fugs — for one night

Lucian K. Truscott IV
(AP/Shawn Thew)

Trump's "factoid" presidency

David Masciotra
Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Wolf of Wall Street;" Arthur Miller (AP/Paramount Pictures)

Do bad times make great art?

Adam Langer
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Donald Trump, John F. Kennedy (AP/Wilfredo Lee/Salon)

Which American dream will win?

David Masciotra
Joshua Ferris, Paolo Giordano (Hachette Book Group/Pietro Pesce/Salon)

Joshua Ferris
Peter Thiel (Reuters/Yuri Gripas)

The overrated celeb "genius"

Michael Lind
Kurt Vonnegut (AP/Salon)

When Vonnegut went to war

Michael Schmidt
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Truman Capote, David Foster Wallace, Vladimir Nabokov (AP/David Pickoff/flickr/Steve Rhodes)

Joys of literary destruction

Wendy Lesser
Norman Mailer (AP/Kathy Willens)

Allen Barra
Norman Mailer

Jon Wiener - LA Review of Books

Victoria Patterson - LA Review of Books
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