Mailer in “Doc” Documentary

By on December 9, 2008 in Announcement, In the Media

Norman Mailer once described Doc Humes, novelist and cultural figure, as

one of the few people I have ever met who was essentially, at bottom, more vain, more intellectually arrogant, than I was.

“Doc” is a PBS documentary premiering on December 9 by Immy Humes about her father Harold L. “Doc” Humes. He was a founder of The Paris Review, wrote two successful and acclaimed novels, The Underground City and Men Die, and ran Norman Mailer’s 1961 campaign for Mayor. “Doc” is also notable for featuring interviews with many now-deceased cultural and literary lights such as Norman Mailer, William Styron, Timothy Leary and George Plimpton.

See Tom Teicholz’ or Arnold K. Fried‘s articles for more information.


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  • michael lennon

    There have been several reports that Doc Humes ran Mailer's 1961 mayoral campaign. But while Humes was ihad nvolved with Mailer and lived in the same apartment building on West 94th street, the campaign never got off the ground. Mailer contemplated running for mayor on the “existentialist ticket” in the fall of 1960, but the project was suspended after he stabbed his second wife Adele with a penknife and was arrested, later receiving a supended sentence. He did run for mayor in the Democratic primary of June 1969 and came in fourth of a field of five.

  • michael lennon

    There have been several reports that Doc Humes ran Mailer's 1961 mayoral campaign. But while Humes was ihad nvolved with Mailer and lived in the same apartment building on West 94th street, the campaign never got off the ground. Mailer contemplated running for mayor on the “existentialist ticket” in the fall of 1960, but the project was suspended after he stabbed his second wife Adele with a penknife and was arrested, later receiving a supended sentence. He did run for mayor in the Democratic primary of June 1969 and came in fourth of a field of five.