US writer Norman Mailer hospitalized: report

[havocmom]

Source: Raw Story link to AFP report



"He's not in very good shape. It's breaking my heart," one of his former wives, Carol Mailer, was quoted in The New York Post as saying.

The writer was reported to be at an intensive care unit at Mount Sinai Hospital.

According to Carol Mailer, the writer was first hospitalized in Boston some time ago with an asthma attack, but insisted on being released because he wanted to attend his daughter's wedding in New York on September 8.

Mailer is a recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award.

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If it is time, a peaceful crossing, and many thanks, Mr. Mailer.

[SteppingRazor]

1. He's been practically crippled for several years now...

but still insists on using two canes to climb the stairs to his third-floor apartment in Manhattan. Terribly Mailer-esque of him, no?

In any case, he published a new book last year, so, if he really is on his deathbed, I'm glad he at least managed to get one more work on the shelves.

[kestrel91316]

2. That's weird. I thought he died years ago.

But then I'm the same person who thought for 25 years that Peter Frampton had died of a drug overdose way back in the late 70s or early 80s..........And I was ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN OF THIS. lol

[havocmom]

4. Book out just a few months ago

The Castle in the Forest: A Novel

From page at amazon:

From Publishers Weekly:
Starred Review. Mailer did Jesus in The Gospel According to the Son; now he plumbs the psyche of history's most demonic figure in this chilling fictional chronicle of Hitler's boyhood. Mailer tells the story through the eyes of Dieter, a devil tasked by Satan (usually called the Maestro) with fostering Hitler's nascent evil, but in this study of a dysfunctional 19th-century middle-class Austrian household, the real presiding spirit is Freud. Young Adolph (often called Adi) is the offspring of an incestuous marriage between a coarse, domineering civil servant and a lasciviously indulgent mom. The boy duly develops an obsession with feces, a fascination with power, a grandiose self-image and a sexually charged yen for mass slaughter (the sight of gassed or burning beehives thrills him). Dieter frets over Hitler's ego-formation while marveling at the future dictator's burning gaze, his ability to sway weak minds and the instinctive führerprinzip that emerges when he plays war with neighborhood boys—talents furthered by Central Europe's ambient romantic nationalism. Mailer's view of evil embraces religions and metaphysics, but it's rooted in the squalid soil of toilet-training travails and perverted sexual urges. The novel sometimes feels like a psychoanalytic version of The Screwtape Letters, but Mailer arrives at a somber, compelling portrait of a monstrous soul. (Jan. 23)

[emilyg]

3. A giant.

[MuseRider]

5. So sad.

Easy passing if it is time and a big thank you for hours upon hours of reading that meant so much to me.

[DeepModem Mom]

6. K&R