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Norman Mailer: Works and Days A digital bio-bibliography

Barbara Wasserman, remembrance

Barbara Wasserman's remembrance in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023) of her brother as a teenager, waiting for the A train in Brooklyn and telling her, "I still don't know how people change."

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Barbara Wasserman, Mailer’s sister, recalls in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (p. 96) how her brother educated her through their teenage years. Waiting for the A train in the High Street subway station in Brooklyn, he told her, “I still don’t know how people change,” and she realized for the first time that people do.

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First published: 2023-02-20
Form: essay
Cite as: /works/2023-02-20-reflections-wasserman
Last updated: 2026-10-17