What righties don't get about Manny Castro and graffiti.

Twitchy thinks it's leading a righteous fight , stirring up outrage about the "Tastes Like Hate" graffiti, spray painted on a ...

Althouse in 1970.

Yes, it's me, age 19, sitting under a Norman-Mailer-for-Mayor poster: ( Enlarge .) Just something I ran across as I work on restoring th...

Exiting through the door marked 2007.

The NYT Magazine has its annual "Lives They Lived" issue , with short essays on a wide range of individuals who died in the past y...

"Ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety."

Norman Mailer wins the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The idea of the award is "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory...

Bloggingheads!

Check it out. I'm back... with a vengeance. ADDED: Topics: Norman Mailer on women The subliminal seduction of Mr. Whipple Living and lov...

Eric Clapton's autobiography.

I've been listening to the audiobook of Eric Clapton's autobiography. It's my current "walking around" book — as I tak...

"Something weird and cultish in the sycophantish cathexis onto Hillary of the many nerds, geeks and vengeful viragos who run her campaign..."

It's Camille Paglia (who admits she's "leaning" toward Obama). She's got her sights set on Hillary Clinton, and it...

It's Kurt Vonnegut's birthday, the first since his death.

So let's read this 1992 Playboy Interview with him and Joseph Heller, who is also dead. There's some talk of Norman Mailer, and he...

Norman Mailer died.

Today. Remember when he ran for Mayor? I do. The idea was that NYC should be the 51st state. It'd be the 12th largest, you know. (In cas...

Old age is cool.

According to Norman Mailer (who is 83): There's one good thing about old age that people don't recognize. Which is that if you have...

"The classical pimples of the adolescent working his first gas pump would also pump for her..."

Virginia Heffernan quotes and is disgusted by a PBS show about photographs of Marilyn Monroe: The narration sounds like a terrible Norman M...

"There still resides, however, under my aging novelist's pate a volunteer intelligence agent, sadly manque."

Norman Mailer lumbers up to the HuffPo keyboard and taps out a conspiracy theory, in that wonderful literary style where things don't ...

The big, foaming mass-o'-celebrities blog.

Arianna Huffington thinks she's discovered something new in blogging: the group blog with famous people, a lot of famous people. If yo...

The 51st State.

The post-election talk of blue-state/red-state divisions (and the recent retirement of Jimmy Breslin ) got me thinking about the time Norma...