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 very acute. The hard - boiled school of crime fiction is extremely indebted to Hemingway. Chandler acknowledged this ( in left - handed fashion) by nicknaming an annoying cop "Hemingway" in one of his stories.
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We should not forget that The Great Gatsby is basically a hardboiled crime novel, and Nick Carraway is a proto-PI
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