Richard Bradford’s Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer reveals that the writer would often adopt a Texas accent while talking to colleagues at the Village Voice. A variation of this “Texas brogue” persona later emerged as the narrator of Mailer’s 1967 novel, Why Are We in Vietnam? In Tough Guy, which is due out […]
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