Posthumous literary reputation is always unpredictable. I don't think very many in 1960s thought that Thomas Savage, John Williams & PK Dick would one day be canonical, although they all had their fans back then.
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I predict a wave of young women writers naming a rediscovered Mailer as an inspiration, c. 2035.
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They'll discover him tangentially via the Ellen Willis revival of the late '20's. It's going to be a whole thing.
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But why does this matter? Mailer was very famous in his heyday, is far less so now. His next essay collection, truthfully, is still going to outsell plenty of contemporary stuff out there.
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Well, I do like people to read old books and often advocate for them. I think Mailer's 1960s/1970s journalism has a pertinence to contemporary readers that his current reputation obscures.
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