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    Toni Morrison, who received a lifetime achievement award, and Calvin Trillin at the dinner. "Norman Mailer lived a long time, and the ferocious genius, sometimes erratic personality was not the same at 75 or 80" said David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, who along with Tina Brown, was a co-chairman of the party at Cipriani in Midtown Manhattan. Full Article at International Herald Tribune
    Norman Mailer lived a long time, and the ferocious genius, sometimes erratic personality was not the same at 75 or 80
    – David Remnick SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 1 month ago
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To Honor a Battler, Literary Peace Breaks Out
  1. I’m so nervous ... I’ve never been this famous before.
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 1 month ago
  2. PEN was more or less a literary tea party with a small budget and limited influence in the book and academic industry
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 1 month ago
  3. Now every time I go into that bathroom and see that toilet, I think of Norman
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 1 month ago
  4. There is only so much money to go around in the literary community. Is this the right thing to do?
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 1 month ago
  5. Mailer being Mailer, however, had ways of offending others who were part of PEN
    – Gay Talese SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 1 month ago
  6. Now we have Mailer Inc. and PEN Inc.
    SOURCE: International Herald Tribune 1 month ago

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