Stormin’ Norman at it again

Poor Norman Mailer. He isn’t writing anything much of note anymore so he has to resort to incoherent blogging or bashing reviewers, as Page Six reveals:

NORMAN Mailer has finally gone off the deep end about New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani, who has savaged his tomes in the past. In a rant to Rolling Stone, Mailer raged: "Kakutani is a one-woman kamikaze. She disdains white male authors, and I’m her number-one favorite target. One of her cheap tricks is to bring out your review two weeks in advance of publication. She trashes it just to hurt sales and embarrass the author . . . But the Times’ editors can’t fire her. They’re terrified of her. With discrimination rules and such, well, she’s a threefer: Asiatic, feminist and, ah, what’s the third? Well, let’s just call her a twofer. They get two for one. She is a token. And, deep down, she probably knows it."

OTOH, maybe what Mailer really wants is to actually be Michiko. And isn’t it funny how things sour, considering how lovely this profile was all those years ago?