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The Guest from Hell

By on August 2, 2007 in In the Media

Savoring Norman Mailer’s legendary appearance on The Dick Cavett Show. By Troy Patterson for Slate What’s your take on Cassavetes? Here’s mine: The filmmaker is one of three avant-gardists who readied America for reality television and the cult of pop personality, and his highly wrought psychodramas are an essential template for every loosely scripted, boozily [...]

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Mr. Mailer Receives Hadada Award

By on April 2, 2007 in Events, In the Media, Norman Mailer

On April 23, 2007, Mr. Mailer received the Hadada Award from The Paris Review in a New York ceremony. Novelist E.L. Doctorow, a longtime friend of Mr. Mailer’s, and his editor for An American Dream (1965), presented the award, which was created by the late editor of the Review, George Plimpton. New York Mayor Michael [...]

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“Castle” a Best Seller

By on February 18, 2007 in In the Media

The Castle in the Forest is in sixth place on the New York Times Book Review best seller list, as of February 18, 2007. There are now over 140,000 copies in print.

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Mailer in The Nation

By on June 7, 2005 in In the Media, Norman Mailer

The June 6, 2005 issue of The Nation reprints an essay by Mailer from a French periodical on the theological views of the late French philospher, Jean-Paul Sarte: “On Satre’s God Problem.” Adam Shatz introduces the essay: This year marks the centenary of the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, the great philosopher of existentialism and a [...]

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Mailer Speaks in Austin

By on April 29, 2005 in In the Media, Norman Mailer

Even as researchers begin organizing his legacy, author Norman Mailer continues to weigh in on everything from the Iraq war to capital punishment. Mailer, 82, spoke Thursday at the University of Texas, which earlier this week announced it had purchased the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist’s archive for $2.5 million. Mailer, whose works include “The Naked and [...]

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NM & John Buffalo Converse & Book Miscellany

By on August 10, 2004 in In the Media

The New York magazine published a conversation “between a man of legendary fury and his son preparing to go to the barricades about the uses and abuses of Bush hatred.” Norman Mailer and John Buffalo converse in “Father to Son: What I’ve Learned About Rage.” Finally, three recent books have material on Mailer: Mickey Knox’s [...]

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