William Buckley interviews Norman Mailer in 1968 on Firing Line, Part 1.
Russian Spy
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 [...]
Norman Mailer: The American
Movie Trailer via AuthorScoop. From their description on YouTube: A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the book shelves and NY Times best seller list to Mailer the social critic, family man, filmmaker, and lover. [...]
Mailer on Life
“…there was that law of life so cruel and yet so just that one must grow or else pay more to remain the same.” The Deer Park
Mailer on Violence
“Violence is the last frontier in literature.” Interview with Andrew O’Hagan, Paris Review, No. 181 (Summer 2007).
A Norman Life
Oprah has named Norris Church Mailer’s A Ticket to the Circus as one of her 10 Terrific Reads of 2010. From Judith Newman’s review in O, the Oprah Magazine: Just how irresistible was Norman Mailer? Gloria Steinem said that anybody who would marry him couldn’t be “healthy, well-adjusted, conscious, or aware”—but she was friends with [...]
Mailer on Marriage
“It is an excrementious relationship; we can take all that is bad in us and throw it at the mate. She throws it back and you both shake hands and go on with your business. You can’t do that out in the world.”
Eyewitness to the Firing Squad
As a Utah man elects to be executed in a hail of gunfire, Lawrence Schiller recalls his last talks with condemned man Gary Gilmore and what he witnessed as Gilmore chose to die by firing squad. Read the full article on The Daily Beast.
Conference 2012
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Conference 2008 Announcement
December 7, 2007
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A Sampling of Letters
October 6, 2008
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Conference 2009: Hotel Information
November 16, 2008
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Preview: The Review 2011
September 2, 2011
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Mailer Passes at 84
November 10, 2007
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Was Marilyn Monroe a Synesthete?
February 3, 2012
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Conference 2012: Call for Papers
January 30, 2012
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Norman Mailer: Playboy Magazine Heavyweight
January 25, 2012
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John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements
January 13, 2012
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Participatory Journalism of Norman Mailer
December 29, 2011
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