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Russian Spy

Russian Spy

By on July 4, 2010 in In the Blogosphere

Lawrence Schiller writes: When I mention that I am here collaborating on a project with the American writer Norman Mailer, his face lights up. “Mailer!” he exclaims. “He is even in our KGB encyclopedia! This is a man who writes what he believes!” It doesn’t take much effort to get him to tell us the [...]

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Mailer’s LEGO Vision of New York

Mailer’s LEGO Vision of New York

By on September 4, 2009 in In the Blogosphere

Mailer’s dream city uses the basic technique of modern architecture, a mass-produced prefabricated element throughout. Here it would be a box girder, 50 by 25 by 12 feet, inside which the construction, a single apartment, would be built. Yet with such a standardized unit (represented by Lego blocks in the model), Mailer shows that an [...]

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Mailer Wins

By on April 1, 2009 in In the Blogosphere

Norman Mailer has been inducted into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame, thanks in no little part to Society members, I’m sure. As you can see by the final scores, Mailer led the pack with 709 votes — 19 more than Walt Whitman. They state: Over 4,000 votes were cast! They have been tallied and it [...]

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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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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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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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Mailer’s 50th Bash

By on December 23, 2008 in In the Blogosphere

Bruce Klauber, writer and jazz musician, recounts Norman Mailer’s 50th birthday celebration in February 1973. He writes: Always the publicity hound, which is why Mailer was as much a “personality” as he was a writer, he decided in February of 1973 to throw himself a 50th birthday bash. But this would be no mere party. [...]

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Wasps & the Republicans

Wasps & the Republicans

By on November 20, 2008 in In the Blogosphere

Blogger Andrew Seal considers his recent work with the Obama campaign compared to Mailer’s political analyses in Miami and the Siege of Chicago. Seal is interested in Mailer’s role as Teiresias, prophet of American democracy; thus his reading is examines Mailer’s predictions of Wasp power and the rise (and fall?) of the Republican party.

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