Exclusive: Norman Podhoretz on Norman Mailer

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Norman Mailer died last weekend at the age of 84. In 1999, COMMENTARY’s Editor at Large Norman Podhoretz published Ex-Friends, a memoir of his sundered friendships with some of the leading figures of New York’s literary intelligentsia, Mailer among them. Here, free of charge, is "A Foul-Weather Friend to Norman Mailer," the chapter on Mailer in Ex-Friends.

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Norman Podhoretz has been writing for COMMENTARY for 56 years.

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