The late Pulitzer Prize winner had an enduring affection for the Lone Star State.
reveals that the writer would often adopt a Texas accent while talking to colleagues at theA variation of this “Texas brogue” persona later emerged as the narrator of Mailer’s 1967 novel,, which is due out Jan. 17, Bradford describes the Dallas-based protagonist as “the spawn of Joyce, Beckett, Burroughs and Shakespeare entrapped in the idiom of hard-nosed Texas masculinity.
Mailer’s obvious belief in the toughness of Texans was no doubt bolstered on the set of his 1970 movie, when actor Rip Torn, a native of Temple, Texas, attacked him with a hammer in an unscripted scene that stayed in the picture. “The police were not called,” Bradford writes, “but had Torn been charged with assault he would probably have been the first person to be found not guilty by reason of postmodernism.”
Mailer’s interest in Texas extended to the Dallas killing of President John F. Kennedy. Mailer wrote a biography of Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, with 1995′s. After his death in 2007, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner left his archives of more than 1,000 boxes of papers to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin.
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