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Norman Mailer\u2019s Brooklyn Heights pad is on the market<\/a>! The fourth-floor two-bedroom apartment overlooking the promenade was first listed in 2011, but the sale fell through when the prospective buyer discovered the atrium wasn\u2019t up to code. Norman Mailer was afraid of heights, and so, macho to the core, he had his apartment outfitted with crow\u2019s nests, gangplanks, galley ladders, and hammocks. In short, he built himself a nautical jungle gym on which to exercise his biggest personal fears. Now his son Michael has removed all that, bringing the space in line with\u00a0those rigorous regulation-atrium requirements.\u00a0The walls have been painted white, and Norman\u2019s stacks of books have been whittled down by professional stagers, but the $2.4 million price tag is the same as it was seven years ago. Mailer had nine children (from six wives), who will split the proceeds. \u201cThe nautically themed space is iconic, like its creator,\u201d the real-estate listing reads, in excellent Executioner\u2019s Song<\/i>\u2013esque prose, \u201cwith a two-story glass and wood atrium and a sloping wood ceiling recalling the curves of a grand sailboat.\u201d Sure, as Joan Smith wrote after his death, \u201cMailer hated authority, homosexuality, women and almost certainly himself.\u201d Sure, he stabbed one of his wives with a penknife, complained about the \u201cwomanization of America,\u201d helped spring a murderer from jail, made a failed run for mayor, and declared himself an \u201cenemy of birth control.\u201d But the place probably isn\u2019t haunted. Look at that\u00a0view<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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If any of you have a spare $2.4 million lying around, the Paris Review<\/em> staff would appreciate it if you\u2019d invite us over.<\/p>\n

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Nadja Spiegelman is the<\/i>\u00a0online<\/em>\u00a0editor of <\/i>the<\/em> Paris\u00a0Review.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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