Archive | November, 2008

The Mailer Files

By on November 10, 2008 in In the Media, Norman Mailer, Politics

The Washington Post has an article today featuring J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI file on Norman Mailer. Apparently, Mailer wrote an article in Esquire that mocked Jacqueline Kennedy, making Hoover suspicious. The result was an on-going inimical relationship between the government agency and Mr. Mailer: Over the next 15 years, FBI agents closely tracked the grand [...]

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Call for Papers: Review Issue 3

By on November 9, 2008 in The Mailer Review

The editors of The Mailer Review are particularly interested in essays that focus on Norman Mailer’s film work and his non-fiction, especially Oswald’s Tale. Please send abstract to Phillip Sipiora <psipiora [at] gmail [dot] com> by January 15, 2009. Completed ms. by March 01. Length flexible. MLA style documentation. All submissions as MS WORD attachments.

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Mailer Biography Goes to Simon & Schuster

By on November 8, 2008 in Biography, Norman Mailer

The New York Observer reports today that Simon & Schuster will be publishing the biography of Norman Mailer currently being penned by Mailer’s friend, long-time associate, and Society president J. Michael Lennon. Mike Lennon has been working on this biography for some time; he states: I have been collecting material for this biography almost from [...]

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