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 [...]
