Archive | February, 2009
Lennon on Books Podcast

Lennon on Books Podcast

By on February 17, 2009 in Letters

The New York Review of Books just published a recent Podcast interview with J. Michael Lennon about Mailer’s letters. In the way of an introduction, they write: J. Michael Lennon, who is at work on an authorized biography of Norman Mailer, speaks with Sasha Weiss about Mailer’s letters and what they reveal about his ambitions, [...]

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Letters on Writing

By on February 14, 2009 in Letters

Today, the Guardian published a selection of Norman Mailer’s letters with notes provided by Mike Lennon.They write: The first letter was written to his parents when Mailer was still in the army and working on The Naked and the Dead. The second was written to his editor at Little, Brown while he was revising the [...]

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Mailer’s Final Gift

By on February 5, 2009 in Heritage, In the Blogosphere

In The Daily Beast, Lawrence Schiller writes about Norman Mailer’s literacy legacy and the founding of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at his home in Provincetown, MA. The article is as much about Mailer’s relationship with his friends and family and the house in Provincetown where they met in Mailer’s waning days as it is [...]

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Still at War

Still at War

By on February 4, 2009 in Heritage, Politics

I a recent article in the Media Monitors Network, Norman Solomon asks “Why Are We Still at War?” He analyzes the pointlessness of fighting a “war on terror,” supporting his assertion with quotations by Joan Didion and Norman Mailer. He writes: It may be profoundly true that we are not red states and blue states, [...]

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A Remembrance through the Review

By on February 1, 2009 in In the Blogosphere, The Mailer Review

Carloyn Kellogg remembers Norman Mailer’s 86th birthday by lauding volume two of The Mailer Review. In “Norman Mailer Is Not 86 Today,” she quotes passages from the Review and writes: I’d be happy if authors today appeared as frequently in the news, were as important cultural voices, or tried to run, obnoxiously, for mayor of [...]

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