Poet and Essayist

Paul Lake

2 articles 1998

Paul Lake is a poet, essayist, and professor of English known for his work in literary criticism and formal poetry. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1998, writing on cultural and political topics.

WHY NORMAN MAILER'S WIFE DUMPED BILL CLINTON

August 10, 1998 · Magazine, Paul Lake

Norman Mailer has quipped that the difference between Bill Clinton's womanizing and Jack Kennedy's is that Kennedy had better taste in women. Coming from the biographer of Marilyn Monroe, the barb was tipped with an extra dose of insult. But it also contained an irony unnoticed by press or public.…

WHY NORMAN MAILER'S WIFE DUMPED BILL CLINTON

August 10, 1998 · Magazine, Paul Lake

Norman Mailer has quipped that the difference between Bill Clinton's womanizing and Jack Kennedy's is that Kennedy had better taste in women. Coming from the biographer of Marilyn Monroe, the barb was tipped with an extra dose of insult. But it also contained an irony unnoticed by press or public.…