Norman Mailer's death reminds us of that old line--was it the bard?--that the evil men do lives on long after their deaths. Let's reverse that for a second. Mailer's books--at least the good ones--will live on. But so will the mixed legacy of Jack Henry Abbott. If you've never read In the Belly of the Beast you're missing one of the best works of autobiography and prison literature. Mailer discovered Abbott. And it was on Mailer's word that he got out of prison only to commit a random and self-defeating (hard not to see it as intentional) murder of a waiter in a Greenwich Village restaurtant. Some say Abbott was just applying prison logic to the outside world. But the legacy of In the Belly of the Beast both good and bad will live on long after Mailer's demise.