Mailer Speaks from Provincetown

By on January 15, 2007 9:22 am in Brooklyn Heights

Sure, Norman Mailer spends most of his time in Provincetown but he still has a place here in the nabe. Maybe we could housesit for him. 

Cape Cod Times: Exploring the Roots of Evil: Although he still keeps a place in Brooklyn Heights, Provincetown has been home for him for 20 years, and most of his more than 40 books have been written there. He lives with his wife, Norris Church Mailer, in a brick house on the Provincetown waterfront. It's a comfortable home filled with books and paintings by his wife, whose second novel, ''Cheap Diamonds,'' is coming out this summer.

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  • http://www.selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    One of the better graffiti on the wall of the men’s room at the late, lamented Lion’s Head in Greenwich Village (where Mailer was known to take the waters on occasion) went like this:

    “God made Shakespeare, then broke the mold.
    God broke the mold, then made Jacqueline Susann.
    MAILER

  • http://www.selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    Whoops! Somehow, my hyperactive computer (my cursor must have swept over the “submit” button accidentally) posted before my post was complete. Here’s the full text:

    One of the better graffiti on the wall of the men’s room at the late, lamented Lion’s Head in Greenwich Village (where Mailer was known to take the waters on occasion) went like this:

    “God made Shakespeare, then broke the mold.
    God broke the mold, then made Jacqueline Susann.
    MAILER will advise God what molds he’s trying on.”