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Florian Sedlmeier

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Open access Aug 2026

“Norman… I Hate to Talk About Norman”: The Art of the Insult and Literary Friendship, Circa 1960

The essay rereads the literary field of the mid-twentieth century as structured by “the art of the insult”—a game the literati, exemplified by James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, are invested in. In essays and interviews, these writers engage in ad hominem verbal attacks to test the limits of the socially sayable, which a...

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