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The Presidential Papers

by Norman Mailer

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Reading for the 2nd time

read in November 2008

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Michael said: " At some point Norman Mailer probably should have been president, but this collection of essays, interviews, and articles from the Kennedy years is a brilliant literary equivalent. If I ever have children I'll give this, Advertisements for Myself, and ...more "

Jan 03, 2026 05:41PM · see review

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Being and Time (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)

by Martin Heidegger

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“There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.”
― Norman Mailer

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Coffee Shop University — 114 members — last activity Aug 22, 2021 08:00AM
A book about cultural differences ... The place Bailey’s Gym, Los Angeles, California—6am—the fall of 1999… From a bourgeois neighborhood in Beirut t ...more