Below is an original funny piece from Better Book Titles contributor Jay Welch.

In case you hadn’t heard the news about Norman Mailer:

“With slow-mo hammer-dropping predictability, Norman Mailer’s long-time publisher has recently informed the Mailer family that it has canceled plans to publish a collection of his political writings to mark the centennial of his birth in 2023… The back-door apologies at Random House include as the proximate cause: a junior staffer’s objection to the title of Mailer’s 1957 essay, “The White Negro”…” -Michael Wolff, The Ankler

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Every Generation Cancels Norman Mailer For Its Own Reasons

by Jay Welch

Gen Z: Racial Insensitivity

Young Millennials: Sheer Book Length

Old Millennials: In a Post 9/11 World, His Participation in the 1967 Anti-War Attempt to Levitate the Pentagon No Longer Seemed “Harmless”

Gen X: Pompous Blowhard

Boomers: Wife-Stabbing

Silent Generation: Fondness for Muhammad Ali

Greatest Generation: Kept Bringing Up WW2 Trauma They Wanted To Repress, Thank You Very Much

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