Colum McCann, remembrance
Colum McCann's contribution to Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023): Mailer wanted to be everyone else, slipping into the many lives of his subjects and characters.
Colum McCann’s contribution to Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (p. 71) is a short meditation on Mailer’s urge to “step from his body into a symphony of imagined bodies”: Gilmore, Marilyn, Ali, Rojack, Menenhetet, Hitler, and others. It ends with Mailer “asking for the very best from ourselves.”
Full text: Colum McCann, remembrance. Other contributions are listed in the book’s contents.