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Cannibals and Christians (1966)

von Norman Mailer

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Being a collection of odds and ends from pugnacious novelist and social commentator Mailer. The book gathers Mailer's 1964 reporting of the national political conventions, some opinion pieces, literary criticism, some insignificant poems and short stories, a letter or two, and "interviews", mostly self-generated. Mailer was a gifted but erratic writer and his strengths and weaknesses are on full display here. The book has the unhappy quality of having the most interesting reading first. Thus we begin with the fascinating convention reports as well as opinion pieces which are interesting, at least as thought stimulants, because of Mailer's rather fanciful politics. The literary criticism, which comes next, is insightful enough, but it deals almost entirely with half-forgotten mid-20th century novelists, and is tediously negative--did this poor man never read a book that he liked? Finally, the tired reader must slog through his nearly unreadable interviews with himself, and their abstruse ramblings would embarrass a dorm room at half-past midnight. Ultimately, Mailer's best nonfiction was his convention reportage, and this is gathered in the much better collection Some Honorable Men. That's the go-to for the best of Mailer's nonfiction. ( )
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This book is a collection of writings from 1960 to the present.
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The last time I remember talking about the novel was a year ago, last June or July, and it was in a conversation with Gore Vidal; We were reminiscing in mutually sour fashion over the various pirates, cutthroats, racketeers, assassins, pimps, rape artists, and general finks we had encountered on our separate travels through the literary world, and we went on at length, commenting—Gore with a certain bitter joy, I with some uneasiness—upon the decline of the novel in recent years. We were speaking as trade unionists.
Some of the best prose in America is graffiti found on men’s-room walls. It is prose written in bone, etched by acid, it is the prose of harsh truth, the virulence of the criminal who never found his stone walls and so settles down on the walls of the john, it is the language pf hatred unencumbered by guilt, hesitation, scruple, or complexity. Burroughs must be the greatest writer of graffiti who ever lived.
the Establishment cannot nominate a candidate coherently. Updike’s merits and vices were turned inside out. The good girlish gentlemen of letters were shocked by the explicitness of the sex in Rabbit, Run, and slapped him gently for that with their fan, but his style they applauded.- It is Updike’s misfortune that he is invariably honored for his style (which is atrocious—and smells like stale garlic) and is ihsufficiently recognized for his gifts. He could become the best of our literary novelists if he could forget about style and go deeper into the literature of sex.
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