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A Hell of a Performance
Norman Mailer wrote with an unstable mixture of self-indulgence and self-awareness, bravado and diffidence, glibness and bracing honesty, macho posturing and an almost sheepish gentleness.
The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters, 1945–1946
by Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon
April 18, 2024 issue