Norman Mailer is mentioned in Allen Barra’s review of the new film by Ron Howard: Frost/Nixon. Berra comments that Mailer, along with Gore Vidal and Philip Roth, attempted to probe the psyche of Nixon in literature. Berra writes: Mailer, not entirely unsympathetic, probably came the closest to pinpointing Nixon’s Rosebud. At the 1968 Republican Convention, [...]
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Mailer in “Doc” Documentary
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 [...]
Brooklyn Hall of Fame
There only 86 days left to vote on the first inductees to the Brooklyn Hall of Fame. Among the nominees is Norman Mailer.Their web site states: The Brooklyn hall of Fame celebrates Brooklyn by paying tribute to a small number of unique native sons and daughters who either hail from Brooklyn or have made Brooklyn [...]
The Mailer Files 3: Who Killed Marilyn?
Joe Stephens is back with his latest installment of the Mailer Files — the recently public paper trail of Hoover’s 15-year investigation of Norman Mailer — in The Washington Post. This week it’s “Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?” No, it wasn’t NM. Stephens quotes an FBI memo: “Mailer suggests that ‘right-wing’ FBI and CIA Agents had [...]
The Paris Review Interviews
Norman Mailer’s April 2007 interview, among others, have been collected in a new publication: The Paris Review Interviews Volume 3. From their description: With an introduction by Margaret Atwood, this volume brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, including Martin Amis, Norman Mailer, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Harold Pinter, and more. “A colossal literary event,” as [...]
“Obscene and Bitter,” Says FBI
Following on the coattails of the FBI’s fifteen-year investigation of Norman Mailer comes their literary critique of his work. With a follow-up story to their report on Hoover’s interest in Mailer, the Washington Post‘s Joe Stephens offers more insight into just what the FBI found out. This week, the FBI’s literary critic described Mailer’s Miami [...]
75 Books…
From Esquire, via Collected Miscellany, comes “75 Books Every Man Should Read.” It lists Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead as #25 (I might have scored it higher than some of those above it) — in the company of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, DeLillo, Melville, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Faulkner, and Roth. This is, indeed, a man’s list — [...]
The Mailer Files, Part 2
I blogged last week about the FBI’s fifteen-year investigation of Norman Mailer, and this morning, The Telegraph continues the story about the notoriously paranoid J. Edgar Hoover’s monitoring of Mr. Mailer. In 1962, Hoover called for a memo on Mailer: The FBI’s first Mailer memo, dated June 29 1962, contained enough incriminatory material to fuel [...]
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Conference 2008 Announcement
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A Sampling of Letters
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Conference 2009: Hotel Information
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Preview: The Review 2011
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Mailer Passes at 84
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Was Marilyn Monroe a Synesthete?
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Conference 2012: Call for Papers
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Norman Mailer: Playboy Magazine Heavyweight
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John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements
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Participatory Journalism of Norman Mailer
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