Norman Mailer died on Saturday in New York. He was 84 years old. Despite Mailer's Pulitzer Prizes and National Book Award, his written work, whether fiction or non-fiction, never received universal ...
Norman Mailer’s three movies of the nineteen-sixties are marked—or deformed—by his excessive devotion to the art of the actor, which he considered inseparable from improvisation. He made three ...
Mailer told the PBS series American Masters that even amid the carnage of World War II, he was always observing, always thinking of how what he was watching might translate to the page. 'This Can Be ...
“You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist,” Martin Amis has observed. The remark comes to mind while reading The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer. Of course, innocence is not a word usually ...
Norman Mailer lived large. So it’s no surprise his correspondents included just about everyone who was anyone in 20th century America, and why “Selected Letters of Norman Mailer” is such a ...
On an episode of “The Firing Line” broadcast in 1979, William F. Buckley declared Norman Mailer “the most prominent living American novelist,” and then “the most notorious American novelist, devoting ...
Adele Mailer, a visual artist, actor, and memoirist who rose to notoriety when her then-husband, writer Norman Mailer, stabbed her at a party in 1960, died this past Sunday at age 90. According to the ...
Mailer’s early prose was raw, clean, experiential, and filled with the sweat and pain of his polyglot American characters—Irish, Polish, Jewish, Catholic, street-raised or Ivy League–educated—all ...
It’s difficult to choose my favorite Norman Mailer fight. There was the time he head-butted Gore Vidal in the green room of The Dick Cavett Show and then—swaggering on stage truculent with drink—got ...
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