tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post721310623586320449..comments2024-03-25T10:47:42.656-07:00Comments on Can't Explain: An American Dream (1965)Jeff Pikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17148737647138431543noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-41456633651728837732016-01-14T16:21:56.051-08:002016-01-14T16:21:56.051-08:00Just finished reading Buckley and Mailer: The Diff...Just finished reading Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped The Sixties, which had a few pages on An American Dream. (Read it ages ago, remember nothing.)<br /><br />https://img.washingtonpost.com/rw/2010-2019/WashingtonPost/2015/05/22/BookWorld/Images/Buckley%20and%20Mailer_9780393088717.jpg?uuid=v3QkaAC3EeWAXMP0B-Wp6QPhilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03401327409576832989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32685968.post-52833447156025310172016-01-12T16:55:15.957-08:002016-01-12T16:55:15.957-08:00Yesterday, I wrote this comment on Scott Woods'...Yesterday, I wrote this comment on Scott Woods' rockcritics.com site, in regard to excerpts from a 1975 Norman Mailer interview in which he criticized the Rolling Stones from somewhere beyond pop's solar system: "Thanks for resurrecting this interview segment, as I don’t think I’d ever seen it before. Like a lot of other Mailer pronouncements, the ideas are odd — the Beatles “terrified” by music (?) — but you don’t have to agree with him to dig the chutzpah of his language." I hadn't yet seen your review of "An American Dream" at that point, but now that I have, my comment probably fits that novel pretty well too, as I recall from my own readings of it.<br /> -- Richard Riegel<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com