maxcelcat: (Tram In Snow)
Damn: Norman Mailer Dies.

It's a bad year for American authors.

Norman Mailer wrote one of my favourite books of all time: The Armies Of The Night, which I have a sudden inclination to re-read. It tells the story of a march on the Pentagon from two different view points - as a reporter at the event and in the second half as a participant in the march itself. I recommend it.
maxcelcat: (Magritte)
Kurt Vonnegut, one of my favourite writers, died yesterday at the age of 83. For a schizophrenic, life-long smoker and drinker and someone who was a prisoner of war in Dresden when it was firebombed, that's not a bad innings...

"All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."

Also give this article a read.

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