When Mailer Ran for Mayor

But of course, just as New York was still New York, he was still Norman Mailer. He began to approach his concrete, common-sense ideas with a novelist’s unbridled flights of fancy. He spoke grandly of ivy and stained-glass windows on all public buildings, an annual Grand Prix in Central Park, a zoo in every neighborhood — even medieval jousts in parks, to alleviate juvenile delinquency.

Read the rest of Lee Siegel's essay here.

[HT: Althouse]