First of all, let me say a belated... po' Mailer. Norman Mailer, often crowned one of the most 'towering' writers of the 20th and 21st centuries died of acute renal failure Nov. 10. Although I've never read any of his novels (of which include The Naked and the Dead and The Castle in the Forest) one of my best friends hails him as "as close to a hero as I'll ever get." So, I figure he's probably pretty good.
