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(Created page with ""God and I: The letters of Norman Mailer: Stunt, Stabbings and Striking Ability to Articulate Belief" Author: James Campbell Published: Dec.19,2014 Publisher: NI Syndication Limited From: TLS Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5829-5830)") |
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"God and I: The letters of Norman Mailer: Stunt, Stabbings and Striking Ability to Articulate Belief" | "God and I: The letters of Norman Mailer: Stunt, Stabbings and Striking Ability to Articulate Belief" | ||
Author: James Campbell | Author: James Campbell | ||
Published: Dec.19,2014 | Published: Dec. 19, 2014 | ||
Publisher: NI Syndication Limited | Publisher: NI Syndication Limited | ||
From: TLS Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5829-5830) | From: TLS Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5829-5830) | ||
Background: | |||
-On November 19, 1960, Mailer threw a party to announce himself running for mayor of New York City, so he invited everyone from poor to rich, and once he realized that none of the elite have shown up he began to get drunk. | |||
- Mailer was admired for his journalism, interviews, and essays for his "original thinking". | |||
- Mailer's unique talent was thought to have gone to his head which he would actually lead to him striking. | |||
Incident: | |||
Once Norman Mailer became drunk, his wife Adele Morales tried to comfort him but then led to an argument that continued to escalate which ended in Norman pulling out a penknife and stabbing Adele in the chest several times. | |||