Tidbits from Mailer's "Oswald's Tale"

[Joseph McBride]

I never forgave Mailer for his role in the Jack Abbott matter. I don't recall Mailer ever making any statements of regret or sympathy for the victim's wife or family. Ugh.

And Mailer stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, twice with
a penknife at a party and got off lightly. In today's political climate,
that would qualify him to run for president as a Republican. Ben Carson
is actually bragging about how in his youth he tried to hit his mother over the head
with a hammer and tried to stab a relative or friend (the stories vary).
He complains the media and the voters don't give him enough credit
for those episodes (sic). This makes little sense until you factor
in what that vastly overrated historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said recently, that the American people
want to vote for a "killer" for president. I don't think she was being
ironic; she loved LBJ and still seems to do so.