LIANE HANSEN, Host: Critic Bill Marx has this appreciation.</s>BILL MARX: At his best, Mailer was not driven by ego alone. His generation assumed that what novel said had the power to make a difference. Norman Mailer may have abused the privilege, but his career is a valuable reminder of that now anachronistic belief.</s>LIANE HANSEN, Host: Critic Bill Marx teaches contemporary fiction in the writing program at Boston University.
Pulitzer-prize winning novelist Norman Mailer died Saturday morning, at the age of 84. Literary critic Bill Marx shares his remembrance of the provocative American novelist.