Remembering Mailer Two Years Later

by Homer Fink on 10. Nov, 2009 in Arts and Entertainment, Celebrity Residents

Brooklyn Heights resident, former NYC mayoral candidate and world renown author Norman Mailer died two years ago today from acute renal failure.   We thought it appropriate to remember the cantankerous writer with this clip from his 1968 appearance on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.

Also, today’s Brooklyn Eagle has an interesting retrospective on Mailer.

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4 Responses to “Remembering Mailer Two Years Later”

  1. AEB 10. Nov, 2009 at 6:54 pm #

    Battle of two towering egos.

    Mr. Mailer brings audacity. Mr. Buckley delivers smugness….of, in my opinion, a particularly repellent kind.

  2. the banned 10. Nov, 2009 at 8:19 pm #

    I met Mailer a couple of times, I found him to be the epitome of an entitled, obnoxious, old codger. What a pill.

  3. AEB 11. Nov, 2009 at 7:08 am #

    Banned, he was…Norman Mailer. In old age. You were expecting a TV-show host?

  4. Jazz 11. Nov, 2009 at 7:35 am #

    I wish the banned ….. Was.

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