Comments on: Mailer’s Death: We Called It http://www.bostonmagazine.com/boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/ Just another www.bostonmagazine.com weblog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:37:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: AlexM /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-9145 AlexM Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:35:16 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-9145 :)) :))

]]> By: Anthony Sides /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-6843 Anthony Sides Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:55:30 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-6843 It's good to see the full text of this. Mailer's humour and his insights in to mass psychology are the 2 things that stand out about him. It’s good to see the full text of this. Mailer’s humour and his insights in to mass psychology are the 2 things that stand out about him.

]]> By: Ted Burke /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-3707 Ted Burke Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:46:32 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-3707 It's so grand to discover that Mailer had beaten his critics to the punch by furnishing his own post humous insults; this is a pure Cyrano moment. Thank you for printing his obscure gem. I am, by the way,the author of that unwieldly sentence above taken from Amazon. I agree, "An American Dream" is first rate. It’s so grand to discover that Mailer had beaten his critics to the punch by furnishing his own post humous insults; this is a pure Cyrano moment. Thank you for printing his obscure gem. I am, by the way,the author of that unwieldly sentence above taken from Amazon. I agree, “An American Dream” is first rate.

]]> By: dweiums /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2663 dweiums Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:27:07 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2663 I suppose he never imagined that he'd outlive Capote and Warhol. Perhaps he did, and those are 'afterlife' quotes. I wonder what is Buckley's take on this eulogy? More Contemporaneous Ratiocinative Aesthetical Prolegomena? I would truly disagree. Mailer is wittier than a lot of us thought. I suppose he never imagined that he’d outlive Capote and Warhol. Perhaps he did, and those are ‘afterlife’ quotes. I wonder what is Buckley’s take on this eulogy? More Contemporaneous Ratiocinative Aesthetical Prolegomena? I would truly disagree. Mailer is wittier than a lot of us thought.

]]> By: Gerry Walsh /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2481 Gerry Walsh Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:15:56 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2481 His novel of a President Kennedy-like, hip candidate is first rate. My favorite English prof. pushed it on me and I loved it. Do people acurately remember a time like this? I read it so long ago I wonder myself. Yes. Guess he was witty. From Amazon: This pilgrim's progress is nothing short of an obscene fantasy, wherein our hero, a decorated war hero, former congressman and talk show host, strangles his maddening estranged wife, buggers the German maid, steals a Mafia don's girl friend, and proceeds, in 24 hours, to lie and deceive the New York City Police Department, the Mob, with intimations that the FBI and CIA are involved invisibly in the mess he created. His novel of a President Kennedy-like, hip candidate is first rate. My favorite English prof. pushed it on me and I loved it. Do people acurately remember a time like this? I read it so long ago I wonder myself. Yes. Guess he was witty.

From Amazon:

This pilgrim’s progress is nothing short of an obscene fantasy, wherein our hero, a decorated war hero, former congressman and talk show host, strangles his maddening estranged wife, buggers the German maid, steals a Mafia don’s girl friend, and proceeds, in 24 hours, to lie and deceive the New York City Police Department, the Mob, with intimations that the FBI and CIA are involved invisibly in the mess he created.

]]> By: Patricia Jameson-Sammartano /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2352 Patricia Jameson-Sammartano Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:21:17 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2352 The title alone is enough to make this one classic. What a sense of humor! The title alone is enough to make this one classic. What a sense of humor!

]]> By: stacy /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2250 stacy Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:27:29 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2250 Classic! Totally hilarious. I had no idea Mailer had that kind of wit. I love the misspelling of his last name at the end by Jimmy Carter. Nice touch. So funny. Classic! Totally hilarious. I had no idea Mailer had that kind of wit. I love the misspelling of his last name at the end by Jimmy Carter. Nice touch. So funny.

]]> By: Joe /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2240 Joe Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:44:07 +0000 /boston_daily/2007/11/14/mailers-death-we-called-it/#comment-2240 Damn brilliant. I'm going to embark on a reading of some of his material soon enough and this feels like a fine starting point. Thanks for finding and posting this! Damn brilliant. I’m going to embark on a reading of some of his material soon enough and this feels like a fine starting point.

Thanks for finding and posting this!

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