Posted on 02/11/2017 3:15:09 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
n 1981, Norman Mailer threw the heft of his towering celebrity into freeing a convicted murderer and likely psychopath named Jack Henry Abbott.
Six weeks later, Richard Adan, a 22-year-old aspiring playwright, slumped to his death in a Bowery alley. Abbott, by then a darling of literary New York, had sliced the man’s heart nearly in two.
The new book “Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer’s ‘The Executioner’s Song’” compellingly revisits the ugly story.
Author Jerome Loving, a distinguished professor of literature at Texas A&M and a Guggenheim Fellow, lays bare every obscene detail.
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As I recall, the man he killed was a dishwasher, and therefore not really human as far as Norman Mailest was concerned.
Sometimes a dishwasher has to die for Art, donchaknow.
Mailer, then, doubly so.
He failed to learn from Buckley's self-regretted mistake.
(Probably wanted to show WFB up, to prove he was a better judge of character...)
Freakin' IDIOT..! Too bad for this boy, huh..?
You got smarter but HE had to pay your tuition.
Mailer shrugged his shoulders, and walked away, not even the least bit inconvenienced.
The only Mailer book I read cover to cover was The Naked and The Dead, I believe his first novel, written in his 20s, and a good one.
“The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.”
ted prevatte and an uncaught accomplice killed a Georgia highway patrol officer some time before 1972. ted got the death penalty but in 1972 the supremes abolished the death penalty, making all death sentences, life. charles manson also gained life because of it. ted prevatte however eventually made PAROLE AND WAS TURNED LOOSE. Not long after, he killed his girlfriend in Wadesboro NC, making orphans of 3 small children. Had the left wing lunatics on the supreme court not abolished the death penalty,those children would not have lost their mother.
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