These days I often find myself wishing that Norman Mailer were still alive to turn this fecal moment of America’s democratic saga into art.
Mailer’s “The Armies of the Night” and “Miami and the Siege of Chicago,” both dating from the legendary year of 1968, were an important help in making some sense of a period that had begun with the mysterious assassination of JFK and carried us through the civil rights battles and martyrdom of Martin Luther King, all accompanied by the obscenity of the Vietnam war … a period whose divisions and bitterness have yet to heal.
It was a great story and Mailer told it well.
Intuition tells me we are about to enter a similar period.