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 …
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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Sorry, I was referring to the idea that Gen Xers haven't even heard of him.
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Yeah, that's obviously absurd. Wolff is trying to turn this into a big generational war thing.
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