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Credit: Reuters/Rafael MarchanteBy Christine Kearney

NEW YORK | Wed Sep 7, 2011 1:33 pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters)-Norman Mailer once advised another author to wait 10 years before writing about the attacks of September 11 because "it will take a long time so that you can make sense".

The estimation of the prominent New York novelist and journalist, who died in 2007, might have been premature. As the world marks a decade since the attacks, literary circles still awaiting a definitive work on the topic.

"The world has changed since 9/11 and our culture has changed, but I still haven't seen the book or the movie or the poem or song that captures the people we are now and helps us to redefine who we are in this new post 9/11 World," the journalist Lawrence Wright told Reuters.

Wright wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning account entitled "The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11".

While editors are bringing a slew of new works, reruns of memories, survivor tales of Iraq war stories, and books of fiction, fight the 11 September and their consequences, writers are still making sense of a was changed.

Movies and television are often inspired by the playwrights and novelists. But Broadway still failed to produce a significant piece directly on 11 September and no novel dealing with the attacks was a best seller top or come to redefine the collective psyche changed.

Famous names like John Updike, Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Don DeLillo all produced fiction stories. Many have written from the perspective of militant or painted the post-September 11 era with a broad brush apocalyptic.

KISS OF DEATH

"The last days of Mohammed Atta," Amis (2006) imagined the last days of a September 11 hijacker, while "terrorist," Updike (2006), centered on the U.S.-born Muslim teenager set in a decaying New Jersey. Neither of the two great prizes.

"Falling Man" of DeLillo (2007) concerned a survivor of the World Trade Center and included several chapters from the perspective of one of the hijackers. While applauded by their descriptions of the attacks, received mixed reactions.

Non-American writers have also weighed in: "Home Boy" of h.m. Naqvi (2009), "Incendiary" of Chris Cleave (2005), Joseph O'Neill "Netherland" (2009), Salman Rushdie "Shalimar the clown" (2005) and Mohsin Hamid the reluctant fundamentalist "". Some were heralded challenging Orthodox interpretation of terrorism and of the attacks.

But writers admit that the process is slow. McEwan, whose novel "Saturday" (2005) reflects what he called "a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the ... attacks," said Reuters back then could be years before a September 11 novel definitive post was written.

Others, like Florida author Andre Dubus III, whose novel "The Garden of Last Days" was extremely well received but sold sluggishly, told Reuters that the public was not ready to embrace such tales.

"My novel did very well until the word got out that he had something to do with 9/11, then kind of dropped off the radar," he laughed. "It was like the kiss of death, it was like, ' Oh I'm not reading about 9/11 '-and I can understand that."

Dubus said he never began writing "a novel of 9/11" and even cut his end of the kidnapper inevitably hitting the twin towers to "step on soil really sacred".

"We were ready to write about it? I don't think anyone was ready to read on the subject, "he said. "As we get to the 10. anniversary, I have a hunch Norman Mailer was right. We are just on the verge of being ready to look back with any degree of perspective, we need emotionally, to see it more clearly ".

TOLL ON CULTURE

Some believe that the authors were subjected to harsher reviews due to the sensitivity of the topic. Others, such as Amy Waldman, a former New York Times reporter whose new novel "The Submission" imagines a jury that chooses a Muslim-American architect to design a memorial to September 11, that is a fool to capture the only novel was to be expected.

"Why should we expect a novel to capture an experience that was so diverse in its facets and as people experienced it and how this affected America? This is a lot of pressure to put on a single writer, "she said.

Non-fiction books, especially soon after the attacks, were easier to digest for readers hungry for information. Official and unofficial accounts, even with dry titles like "the 9/11 Commission report," were sold.

History has shown that traumatic events can take decades to process, said ACLU President Susan Herman. It took decades for the United States to officially apologize for the imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II, a theme Treaty perhaps more sharply in 1994 David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on Cedars."

Journalists, she said, immediately had to face the post September 11 effects of time, such as the Patriot Act, a law of October 2001 has given expanded powers to law enforcement agencies in the u.s., but "individuals who are writing books, stories, games, poems really don't have the same ethical obligation".

Wright said that Americans were still trying to come to terms with September 11 and its impact on their lives.

"We are not comfortable with who we are. We are still in a period of discovery. "Certainly the 9/11 was a shock and there was about to be a lag before the people could address it convincingly, said Wright.

"In terms of artistic production of post 9/11, the escapist factor has now compensated the lighting factor. And perhaps it indicates a desire to withdraw from confrontation with the complexities of the new world that we are ".

(Edited by Arlene Getz and David Storey)

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