From The Guardian: When it comes to truly deplorable writing, not even death, it seems, lets you off the hook. This year’s Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award has gone to the late Norman Mailer for a description of oral sex in his final novel, The Castle in the Forest, in which a male [...]
Archive | November, 2007
Publisher’s Weekly Tribute
This week’s edition of Publishers Weekly devotes three pages to Norman Mailer. In a tribute to Mr. Mailer, “Norman Mailer: A Prolific Life to the End,” Lynn Andriani writes “Upon his November 10 death at age 84, the provocative, prolific Norman Mailer left behind a huge body of work. The two-time Pulitzer winner published more [...]
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Mailer the Politician
Dermot McEvoy of Publishers Weekly writes about Mailer the politician in his “A Different Remembrance: Norman Mailer, Politician” in a mini review of Joe Flaherty’s chronicle Managing Mailer: “It was the Mailer-Breslin ticket that thought up the idea of New York City as the 51st State—and turned the politics of the day on its head. [...]
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From the Editor of the Review
We are deeply saddened at the passing of Norman Mailer, a literary, cultural, and intellectual giant. Mr. Mailer was the last of the great American writers whose roots go back to military service in World War II. Mr. Mailer was a persona of staggering proportions, dazzling the world with his wide-ranging literary work transcending many [...]
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Mailer Passes at 84
With great sorrow, the family of Norman Mailer announces his passing on November 10, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. The cause was acute renal failure. He was eighty four. Mailer resided in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife of 33 years, Norris Church Mailer, and maintained an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. He [...]
