Queer Dog

Good luck to Norman Mailer who passed over the weekend. I actually met him on two occasions and he was very pleasent to me when there was nothing in it for him. My favourite story about him is the one where he nearly lost his eye to some punk in the late seventies/early eighties. Mailer though the young ruffian had implied that his dog was homosexual (it was a poodle for christ's sake), "Nobody calls my dog a faggot!", Nice

Go and read;
The Naked and The Dead
The Executioner's Song
Oswald's Tale
The Fight (Best book on sports I have ever read, although that's a pretty short list)

here's a bizarre clip of Mailer biting off part of Rip Torn's (excuse me) ear after the actor has hit him on the head with a hammer. You are unlikely to see many authors acting the mick like this.