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Norman Mailer: January 31, 1923

Sad to hear Norman Mailer has died.  While it may be a bit contradictory to say so, I never managed to get around to reading everything Mailer wrote, nor did I like everything of his did read, yet he was one of my all-time favorite writers, and certainly one of the most influential (along with Hemingway) on my early explorations and imitations of style as I looked for my own.  The first book I ever read by Mailer was "Tough Guys Don't Dance" and more than 20 years on, the phantoms Mailer evoked still wash any of my considerations of the Cape with a supernatural patina.

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