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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That's the New part. Some called themselves anti-thiests.
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I thought it was the first time in a while people like Daniel Dennett, Grayling, Dawkins, and others were talking about it in public and spreading it to a wider audience. I don't remember a whole lot of public discussion about atheism in the years prior to them.
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I also thought the New was about a new style of taking on religion. A harsher and more aggressive stance. Describing religion as almost child abuse. (Not that I agree, I just thought that was the concept)
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