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19 hours ago · in 100 minutes it weaves together multiple levels and dimensions of The Mailer Experience. It’s about Mailer the writer, the celebrity, the failure, the intoxicated underworld-of-the-'50s searcher, the culture warrior and provocateur, the literary comingler of fiction and reality, the filmmaker, the serial husband and paterfamilias, the talk-show firebrand, the self-dramatizing hoodlum who ...
19 hours ago · Although Norman Mailer initially called Capote's work a “failure of imagination,” demonstrating the literary world's preference for fiction, Mailer soon broke new ground with his own nonfiction writing when he won the Pulitzer Prize for The Armies of the Night (1968).
5 days ago · Did I come alive while viewing How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer and thoroughly enjoy it? Guilty as charged! Although Mailer died in 2007, he remains vividly alive in this entertaining documentary that may make you scream at the screen, laugh out loud—or both.
2 days ago · Mailer’s enduring work of New Journalism is by consensus the most accomplished piece of literature about conventions. ... “is the scathing and poetic book that Norman Mailer wrote about it. ...
2 days ago · Both books were based, as anyone old enough to remember can tell you, on Norman Mailer’s seminal 1968 semi-novel Armies of the Night, a triumphalist send-up of ego over experience based on the 1967 March on the Pentagon.
2 days ago · Norman Mailer’s library and the contents of his writer’s study formerly. Aug 23, 2021 1 min read Apr 08 Cape Cod author Peter Manso, 80, Dies.
3 days ago · Admittedly, there is a readiness on my part to ridicule, upbraid and even desalinate a book, should these remedial steps be necessary. Might I be joining Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer and - bless his lepidoptering socks - Vladimir Nabokov as the critics least ready to crow and most ready to gratuitously excoriate?
