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Mailer on Marriage

By on November 15, 2008 in In the Media

Dwayne Raymond mentions Norman Mailer’s opinion on (gay) marriage in his Huffington Post article “Marriage, Money, and LDS Possibilities“: My dear departed and very heterosexual friend Norman Mailer (six marriages — all to females) once called marriage an excrementitious union. Ruthless, yes, but spot on. Personally, I believe everyone has the right to screw up [...]

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The Mailer Files

By on November 10, 2008 in In the Media, Norman Mailer, Politics

The Washington Post has an article today featuring J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI file on Norman Mailer. Apparently, Mailer wrote an article in Esquire that mocked Jacqueline Kennedy, making Hoover suspicious. The result was an on-going inimical relationship between the government agency and Mr. Mailer: Over the next 15 years, FBI agents closely tracked the grand [...]

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Mailer Appears in New Documentary

By on September 21, 2008 in In the Media

Inside the Handy Writers’ Colony will broadcast nationally on PBS, October 23, 2008 10:00 PM EST. Check your local listings for details. “Inside the Handy Writers’ Colony is a treasure trove for literature buffs…” —Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times Inside the Handy Writers’ Colony is a feature documentary about an unusual colony for writers in [...]

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Mailer Tributes

By on August 24, 2008 in In the Media

The Random House Publishing Group and the family of Norman Mailer honored his life on Wednesday, April 9, 2008, in a memorial tribute at Carnegie Hall. Random House has posted some of those tributes to Norman Mailer on their website.

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A New Book of Photographs from Provincetown Arts Press

By on June 20, 2008 in In the Media

BLUE NIGHTS Photographs by George Hirose Introduction by Norman Mailer Book signing and official book launch at the annual Provincetown Arts Publication Party Provincetown Arts Association and Museum Friday, July 11th, 5pm – 7pm 460 Commercial Street (general public is welcome)

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Castle Wins Sex Prize

By on November 29, 2007 in In the Media, Writing

From The Guardian: When it comes to truly deplorable writing, not even death, it seems, lets you off the hook. This year’s Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award has gone to the late Norman Mailer for a description of oral sex in his final novel, The Castle in the Forest, in which a male [...]

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“On God” in USA Today

By on November 6, 2007 in In the Media, Norman Mailer

USA Today has excerpted Chapter 1 from On God under the by-line of Michael Lennon. In related news, Mike Lennon is featured in a November 5, 2007 article by Steven Spearie in Springfield State Journal Register. Lennon briefly mentions On God: “On God” came about, says Lennon, through several spontaneous conversations. The book codified Mailer’s [...]

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The New York Times Mentions the Review

By on October 18, 2007 in In the Media, The Mailer Review

Dwight Garner, over at the NYTimes blog Paper Cuts, mentions The Mailer Review in a recent post: For anyone who’s interested, a fascinating testament to Mailer’s headlong life has has arrived on newsstands – the inaugural issue of The Mailer Review, a product of the University of South Florida and the Norman Mailer Society. The [...]

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