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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 3

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Michael Wolff

    I'm 100% GenX journos have read a lot of Mailer's contemporaries (Didion, Baldwin) & in fact Gen X and younger writers have been pivotal in rediscovery of writers marginalized in Mailer's lifetime (Thomas Savage, John William, Taubes) so this snobbery is totally unearnedhttps://twitter.com/MichaelWolffNYC/status/1478084092306546694 …

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    Michael WolffVerified account @MichaelWolffNYC
    Confounding how many GenX journos I'm hearing from who have not read Norman Mailer (ever! nothing!). Could be germane to distinction I've found myself making recently between journalists (the many) and writers (the few). https://theankler.com/p/michael-wolff-on-random-houses-cancelation?r=e7vgs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …
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      1. Dan Joslyn‏ @daniel_joslyn Jan 3
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Also, shockingly, I’m pretty sure you can be a writer without having read every single other writer, shocking as it@may be to some.

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      1. ryan cooper‏Verified account @ryanlcooper Jan 3
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        he was no Dostoyevsky, that's for sure

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      2. Jordan Michael Smith‏ @WriterJMS Jan 3
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        This is nutty. I'm an older Millennial and of course I've heard of Mailer. Why, I've even read him. And yeah, his political essays are really good.

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 3
        Replying to @WriterJMS

        I've read lots of Mailer (most of the non-fiction, some of the novels) & like some of it a lot but I do think for various reasons he's out of fashion (Bookscan backs me up on this). And there's nothing wrong with that.

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      2. Alec MacGillis‏Verified account @AlecMacGillis Jan 3
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        This GenXer read Armies of the Night just a year or two ago. It's quite something!

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      3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Jan 3
        Replying to @AlecMacGillis

        The 1960s/1970s nonfiction is the best & if I had edited the Library of American volumes I would've dumped the novels and just had those 5 or 6 books.

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      1. Shane Hunter‏ @DrShaneHunter Jan 3
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I hold a PhD in 20th-century American lit. I’ve read a lot of Mailer; his novels are uniformly bad to the point of being unreadable. His essays haven’t held up as well as Baldwin’s. (Didion’s novels are better than her journalism.)

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      1. coolelk  🇺🇦  🇨🇦 🌻 🐴‏ @anothercoolelk Jan 3
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        This entire exchange is barf-worthy

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      1. zenosAnalytic‏ @zenosAnalytic Jan 4
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        Millennial, but I deliberately AVOIDED Mailer because of all the ppl like this guy who were always going on about how great he was. Same for most ~midcentury~ prestige-writers, honestly.

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      2. Jesse Emspak‏Verified account @Mad_Science_Guy Jan 4
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Speaking as one in that category, I can say: a) read Mailer I think, but I can't recall (I never did read his books, just some excerpts in a class, like as not) b) Read a little Didion, c) Read more Baldwin

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      3. Jesse Emspak‏Verified account @Mad_Science_Guy Jan 4
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        TBH, a lot of the writers who were supposed to be great (usually on the strength of New Yorker pieces) didn't wow the heck out of me, but some of that is probably that it seemed self-consciously "writerly" if that makes sense. Dunno how I'd see them now.

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