Sunday, November 11, 2007

Mailer

I've never read anything by Norman Mailer but I was always interested in him as a public figure. He appeared in Montreal a couple of times in the past 10 years or so, and I didn't go see him. I wanted to, I thought about it, but I didn't go. And now I regret it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why are these so-called brilliant writers/artists/whatever often such ghastly people? Like, how many wives did Mailer have? 6?

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Yes, 6. Anyone who gets married six times thinks marriage is a joke.

cityofmushrooms said...

not the wife of bath (she had 5; "bring on the 6th" she said), but I think she had a lot of old, sick husbands who died on her...

rip, norman