Movie Trailer via AuthorScoop. From their description on YouTube: A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the book shelves and NY Times best seller list to Mailer the social critic, family man, filmmaker, and lover. [...]
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Mornings with Mailer
A RECOLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP by DWAYNE RAYMOND Published to Coincide with What Would Have Been Norman Mailer’s 87th Birthday — An Intimate Portrait of the Great Writer’s Final Years In Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship (Harper Perennial; Trade Paperback Original; On Sale: January 26, 2010; $13.99), writer Dwayne Raymond reflects upon the intimate [...]
Mailer Self Portrait Auction
Bloomsbury Auctions will offer a self-portrait made by Norman Mailer in the sixties. The drawing is in the literary self-portrait collection of Burt Britton and was included in his 1976 book Self-Portrait. Britton writes: It was the mid-sixties, it was below ground in The Village Vanguard, and, as Old Blue Eyes would say, “It’s – [...]
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Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive
In today’s Publishers Weekly, Edward Nawotka discusses the legacy of Norman Mailer and Larry Schiller’s mission to keep it alive. “Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive” looks at Schiller’s efforts in this area: launching the Norman Mailer Writing Awards, organizing the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, and enticing publishers to reissue or repackage some of Mailer’s lesser known [...]
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Mailer Writing Awards Announced
The new Mailer writing awards were announced on February 23 at a Washington, D.C. press conference, co-sponsored by The Mailer Estate and the National Council of Teachers of English. For more information, see the attached brochure (after the jump) or the Writers Colony Web Site.
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