Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Don't be a Blogger Manqué, Norman Mailer

Jay Rosen's blog entry encouraging Mailer to start blogging, quoting him: 'In the '50s, you couldn't get anything interesting published… [I] might have been a blogger if there had been an internet back then.'

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A Huffington Post blog entry by the press critic Jay Rosen encouraging Mailer to start blogging, quoting him: “In the ’50s, you couldn’t get anything interesting published,” and that he “might have been a blogger if there had been an internet back then.” A response to Mailer’s Reagan comment (05.8).

First published: 2005-06-28
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 05.8a
Cite as: /works/2005-06-28-blogger-manque
Last updated: 2026-06-08