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* '''2022-02-04''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/books/jason-epstein-dead.html Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93]. His literary and marketing instincts brought quality paperbacks to American readers and led to the creation of ''The New York Review of Books''. | * '''2022-02-04''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/books/jason-epstein-dead.html Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93]. His literary and marketing instincts brought quality paperbacks to American readers and led to the creation of ''The New York Review of Books''. | ||
* '''2022-02-03''': Michael Mailer writes “[https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/03/opinion/canceling-my-father-norman-mailer-us-needs-stop-eating-its-own/ Canceling my father, Norman Mailer: The US needs to stop eating its own]” in the ''Boston Globe''. He argues, “It needs to stop canceling great writers who made essential contributions to our cultural vibrancy. Committing bad acts does not invalidate their cultural legacies.” | |||
* '''2022-02-02''': David Klion, in “[https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mailer-wolff-random-house/ Norman Mailer Wasn’t Canceled],” argues the ''The White Negro'' “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored for its antiquated racial language.” He reminds those proponents of cancel culture that Mailer “captured something urgent about [his] time, challenged an older generation’s conventional wisdom, and cultivated a younger readership hungry for something vital and relevant.” | * '''2022-02-02''': David Klion, in “[https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mailer-wolff-random-house/ Norman Mailer Wasn’t Canceled],” argues the ''The White Negro'' “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored for its antiquated racial language.” He reminds those proponents of cancel culture that Mailer “captured something urgent about [his] time, challenged an older generation’s conventional wisdom, and cultivated a younger readership hungry for something vital and relevant.” | ||
* '''2022-01-31''': Happy birthday to Norman Mailer on what would have been his 99th birthday. | * '''2022-01-31''': Happy birthday to Norman Mailer on what would have been his 99th birthday. | ||