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6 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 American criminal justice system. The book meticulously ...
2 days ago · That tension between the two really came to a head in 1971 during an episode of The Dick Cavett Show, where Mailer and Vidal got into a heated fight. Confrontational by nature, Mailer took offense with Vidal’s highly critical writings, particularly when Vidal compared him to Charles Manson in an essay. This led to a dramatic confrontation on ...
5 days ago · Chicago hosted the Democratic National Convention again in August 2024, and if one were going to connect city and convention in some essential way as Mailer intended, an updated metaphor would be needed. Forty-five-year-old Norman Mailer would have hated the choice of something “corporate,” for its connotations: intangibility, unaccountability, absence, abstraction, hiddenness, hardly a ...
5 days 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.
4 days ago · The criminals and crazies, the scandalous rebels and extremists in ideas and behavior—Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Bertolt Brecht, Malcolm Lowry, Jean Genet, Dylan Thomas, John Berryman, Norman Mailer and Allen Ginsberg—whose very presence might have disrupted the solemn occasion, had absolutely no hope of ...
5 days ago · Like Mailer: He was a journalist, a novelist, filmmaker and playwright, and found time to marry six women – wife number two doing a runner after Mailer stabbed her – while fathering nine children.
5 days 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 ...
2 days ago · Meanwhile, How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer chronicles the tumultuous life of the famed American author, offering rare insights into his personal struggles and literary triumphs.
5 days ago · Zoe Houghton starred in Anthony Mullins' hit play The Norman Mailer Anecdote - and now the Brisbane screenwriter is working on a film based on the stage production. Photo by Stephen Henry.
4 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." [ 102 ] Meanwhile, Mailer called Buckley a "second-rate intellect incapable of entertaining two serious thoughts in a row." [ 103 ]
