Take the BlackBerry, the handheld wireless e-mailer made by the Canadian company Research in Motion.

FORBES: Book Excerpt

Ultimately, he seems to take up the pen for reasons overshadowed by his first hero, Mailer: the joy of the ring, the thrill of the fight.

NEWYORKER: What She Said

Showtime's mailer is a simple 6-inch by 7-inch cylindrical box this year.

FORBES: A War For The Emmy

Like all writers (it's almost safe to say) he was a big drinker. (See Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Cheever, Mailer, et al.) I once startled Gore by saying I'd just read that each drink kills more than 10, 000 brain cells.

CNN: Cavett: Gore Vidal hates being dead

His fictitious musings are made fact by the status of their infernal scribe, while their reportage is a reminder of Mr Mailer's own journalistic roots.

ECONOMIST: New fiction