1. Mailer pseudo-kerfuffle follows a pattern: there's a type of male writer who tends to be a star when alive & then goes into reputational decline soon after death: macho, two-fisted, sometimes substance abusing: Hemingway, Hunter Thompson, Mailer, Harlan Ellison, Hitchens.
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I'm sure if you post enough tweets smoothing over your first one, no one will notice that you just plain don't know how big Thompson is with either the Tumblr kids or anti-war people
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And that you know science fiction well enough to know that Ellison is hardly in decline. True, there isn’t as much talk about him as there was when he was alive, but only because so much talk about him was by him.
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