A critic in the New York Times once called them the Great Male Novelists—and, no, it wasn’t intended as a compliment. John Updike, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer may have first made their names as free spirits and prophets of liberation—in that capacity, I've seen their names linked with a motley crew, that also includes Hugh Hefner, Lenny B…
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