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Norman Mailer

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American writer who in The Armies of the Night (1968) analyzed the spiritual alienation of the urban middle class and their relationship to working class America.

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"I swear to god every other poster on this site these days is like "yeah so I dropped out of a film studies major at not-even-flagship State U after three years then flopped around in the service industry for a decade. My only hobbies are watching John Woo movies, drinking to excess, and pretending t"
Some of you guys need a reality check · u/KaleAccomplished3535 · ↑427 · 2025-09-24
"and it turns out he was shot by the cops on a domestic abuse call, presumably because he was trying to do a Norman Mailer on his wife."
anyone following the rad_milk/everett byram story? · u/stealinoffdeadpeople · ↑63 · 2023-02-15
"Standing against them, the demonstrators were not only sons of the middle class of course, but sons who had departed the middle class, they were rebels and radicals and young revolutionaries; yet they were unbloodied, they felt secretly weak... Source: The armies of the night. Norman Mailer 1968"
"and it turns out he was shot by the cops on a domestic abuse call, presumably because he was trying to do a Norman Mailer on his wife."
anyone following the rad_milk/everett byram story? · u/stealinoffdeadpeople · ↑63 · 2023-02-15
"I always liked Norman Mailer's explanation that after the assassination individuals(within the CIA) were so scared of any of the blame coming to the CIA that they destroyed a huge number of documents relating to the killing."
Who do you think killed Kennedy? what were the motivations? · u/Lewisiamwhoyouthin · ↑22 · 2023-11-25
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