http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sat, 2 Jul 2005 03:38:31 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/01/080446.php#comment-175956 Oops, he did it again. Jewish-American novelist Norman Mailer, a grumpy old fart at 82, takes a swipe at Japanese-American literary critic Michiko Kakutani in a magazine interview recently. [PHOTOS OF BOTH HERE: http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/323790p-276748c.html] Kakutani, 50 and the daughter of a retired Yale maths professor who came up with the "fixed point theorem," is a Yale graduate and has been a book reviewer for the New York Times for over 25 years, even winning a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1998. In the interview, Mailer, whose books have often been dismissed by Kakutani, uses several terribly racist and politically vulgar (PV) terms, calling the Times reporter a "one-woman kamikaze" [divine wind suicide bomber] and an "Asiatic, a feminist," who is a "token" minority hire at the august national newspaper. So just who is Michiko Kakutani? Click here [http://kakutani101.blogspot.com] and read an informal, gossipy blogsite about her. Note: I was shocked, shocked to read about Norman Mailer's feud with Michiko Kakutani. Whatever reasons Mailer might have to feel abused by her critical powers at the Times (and he does seem to have some good reasons), Mailer should not have singled out ethnic background, of all things, as part of his criticism. Kakutani is not "Asiatic." She, a Japanese-American, is just as "American" as he, a Jewish-American, is. Shame on you, Norman, for having a go at the race card. You lose there. 175956@blogcritics.org Sat, 2 Jul 2005 03:38:31 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/03/01/080446.php#comment-9224 Dose Mr Mailer have a mailing address or a post office i could send him a message. yours robert Collins usaf ret. 9224@blogcritics.org Wed, 7 May 2003 21:59:01 EDT