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.
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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As it should. Writers can be lousy people! Roth was a louse a lot of the time but was one of the greatest who ever lived. My bookshelves are filled with problematic men and women.
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I'm a Jew and both Knut Hamsun and Celine are in there...
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