Archive | January, 2009
A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels

A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels

By on January 29, 2009 in The Mailer Review

The following is an excerpt from The Mailer Review Volume 2 of Robert J. Begiebing and Philip Bufithis’ essay. They begin: Mailer’s nonfiction has been honored with praises and prizes. One might sensibly argue that it contributed to a revolution in the consciousness of his time. But his fiction is still a matter of vigorous [...]

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Larry Schiller Featured in the Times

By on January 24, 2009 in Announcement

Hillary Rose of the Times Online chats with Larry Schiller about his photography and his remarkable life experiences: He was taught needlepoint by Joanne Woodward and taken to the races by Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau, who taught him how to bet. He sat in Marilyn Monroe’s T-Bird, drinking Dom Pérignon and watching as she [...]

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José Torres Dies at 72

José Torres Dies at 72

By on January 20, 2009 in Announcement

José Torres, former light heavyweight boxing champion and a close friend of the Mailer family, died of a heart attack on January 19 at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Mailer wrote the preface to Torres’s 1971 biography of Muhammad Ali, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story, and boxed with him on the [...]

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Obama Like JFK

By on January 19, 2009 in Politics

Fred Kaplan, in his article “Forget FDR and Lincoln; Obama Is Most Like JFK” for Slate, argues that “the Kennedy-Obama parallels are, in fact, deeper than they might seem.” Within, he cites — you guessed it — Mailer’s “Superman Comes to the Supermarket”: In the vapid Eisenhower years, he went on, the “life of politics [...]

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Letters…

By on January 16, 2009 in Letters

The January 2009 issue of Playboy contains 27 previously unpublished Mailer letters, focusing mainly on film, actors and celebrity.  Some of the recipients are Marlon Brando, Lillian Ross, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Gordon Lish, Henry Miller, Jimmy Breslin, Jack Abbott and Gore Vidal.  The letters were edited by J.  Michael Lennon. An additional selection of [...]

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Mailer’s Almost Profile of Obama

By on January 16, 2009 in In the Blogosphere, Politics

Dwayne Raymond today recounts the time Esquire offered Norman Mailer the opportunity to travel briefly with Barack Obama. His article “When Mailer Almost Profiled Obama” appears in The Huffington Post and gives a bit of insight into how Mailer felt about our next president. Raymond writes: I said to Norman that I thought Obama might [...]

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The Edge of Mystery

By on January 15, 2009 in Politics

Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer’s hopes for a President Kennedy in his “Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” Bai begins “The Edge of Mystery” by referencing Mailer, the great political commentator of the twentieth century: Weeks before the election of 1960, Norman Mailer, already an [...]

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Brooklyn Hall of Fame Reminder

Brooklyn Hall of Fame Reminder

By on January 13, 2009 in In the Media

Consider this just a freindly reminder: there only 47 days left to vote on the first inductees to the Brooklyn Hall of Fame. Presently, NM leads the pack with 394 votes, but there’s still more than a month left to hold on to that lead. Go vote. I’ll post another reminder next month.

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