Norman Mailer, the man who invented the word "fug" (as noted in "An Abundance of Katherines"), has died. My boss at "Booklist" used to eviscerate me whenever I conflated a writer's writing with a writer's politics, so I'll remember his work not his misogyny: Much of his stuff was a little puffed-up for me, like a wiry seventh grader who wants to show you how many pull-ups he can do. But I think "The Naked and the Dead" is a really good novel.

Anyway, Mailer's fug-invention is acknowledged in this obituary as being a "noteworthy" facet of his famous first novel.