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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Not sure what that has to do with a culture that would like to deprive others of accessing theese works. Mein Kampf is about as offensive as it gets but people want access to it for a variety of reasons and I don't understand why that shouldn't be the case.
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Hitchens wrote well before and after his neocon turn, and he had sharp wit and a perceptive mind. His critique/takedown of Isaiah Berlin was unmatched. But his main problem was his being less a contrarian than an intellectual bully. "Wrap your hammer in velvet" I always say...
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Hitchens might have went loco fighting the anti-war people over Bosnia, but he didn't completely change. Here he is in 2007 in Slate on Mailer: "On that occasion, and on many, many others, beginning with An American Dream, he manifested an obsession with sodomy that was...
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something a bit more (and perhaps even a bit less) than macho. I once made the mistake of asking him about this on a television show with Germaine Greer: Why was he so fixated on penetratio per anum and its occasions, male-on-male as well as male-on-female? Seizing my copy of...
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I can’t get the audio to play, but if neither of you mention HITCH-22 as not only a document that will last, but as one of the best memoirs of recent decades, I’d say you gotta go back to the drawing board. Oh and MORTALITY is a short masterpiece written under hellish conditions.
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Call the plumber and get that motherfucker fixed! We certainly drew from Hitch-22 which is as you rightly say a terrific memoir (though the title makes me cringe). Just to be difficult I think Unacknowledged Legislation is the best of the lot. Mad erudition and insight on tap.
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I tend to agree his 9/11 reaction doesn't age very well nor does the IDW/New Atheist decision that Islam 'must be challenged'. It wasn't thought out and didn't really recognize how religion works in society. What was the endgame? Talk the entire Islamic world into atheism by..
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witty Hitchen's quips on Youtube? The farce was over when we watched Trump's 'Muslim ban' that excluded Egypt and Saudi Arabia yet included North Korea and Venezuela.
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What is your viewing Ellison?
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