2005
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2 days ago · Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" is a monumental work of literary journalism that delves into the life and death of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who demanded his own execution. Published in 1979, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel blurs the lines between fiction and non-fiction, presenting a stark and unflinching look at the ...
1 day ago · If Norman Mailer was, or at least sought to be, the postwar generation’s answer to Hemingway, Truman Capote was its F. Scott Fitzgerald—elegiac, lyrical, a pitch-perfect literary stylist who ...
1 day ago · Norman Mailer called him ‘the most perfect writer of my generation’. He cultivated a lifelong rivalry with Gore Vidal and became a familiar face on television talk shows, but his last years were dominated by drugs, alcohol and cosmetic procedures.
1 day ago · Truman Capote, the boy who left home through the front door. The author of ‘In Cold Blood’ made his mark on nonfiction literature and managed to connect with the inexplicable violence that ravages the US, but above all he left behind the myth of a person destroyed by the character. September 30 marks the centenary of his birth. Truman ...
2 days ago · So too his great contemporaries, the tyrannical narcissists and bitching rivals, Norman Mailer and Vidal. One hundred years ago on Monday, Capote was born in Louisiana, a day before future ...
2 days ago · Why do people still use the term “Great American Novel”? It isn’t just a cliché but obsolete: a relic of that testosterone-fueled era when Norman Mailer and others “fancied themselves in the boxing ring with Hemingway, delivering a succession of body blows to Papa and other writers of his celebrated generation,” as the critic Jonathan Yardley wrote.
2 days ago · Buckley maintained a philosophical antipathy toward Vidal's other bête noire, Norman Mailer, calling him "almost unique in his search for notoriety and absolutely unequalled in his co-existence with it."
