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	<title>The Norman Mailer Society &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/11/19/considering-norman-mailer-and-his-work-a-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Brookfield begins by reconsidering the literary merits of Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer&#8217;s second novel, is his article &#8220;Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter.&#8221; Brookfield positions his article as a response and commentary on Andras Gyorgy&#8217;s recent &#8220;The Postwar Novelist in Regression: Norman Mailer (1927-2007)&#8221; &#8212; mostly a commentary on the &#8220;socialist&#8221; Mailer. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still at War</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/02/04/still-at-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I a recent article in the Media Monitors Network, Norman Solomon asks &#8220;Why Are We Still at War?&#8221; He analyzes the pointlessness of fighting a &#8220;war on terror,&#8221; supporting his assertion with quotations by Joan Didion and Norman Mailer. He writes:
It may be profoundly true that we are not red states and blue states, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Like JFK</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/19/obama-like-jfk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Kaplan, in his article &#8220;Forget FDR and Lincoln; Obama Is Most Like JFK&#8221; for Slate, argues that &#8220;the Kennedy-Obama parallels are, in fact, deeper than they might seem.&#8221; Within, he cites &#8212; you guessed it &#8212; Mailer&#8217;s &#8220;Superman Comes to the Supermarket&#8221;:
In the vapid Eisenhower years, he went on, the &#8220;life of politics and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mailer&#8217;s Almost Profile of Obama</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/16/mailers-almost-profile-of-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/16/mailers-almost-profile-of-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dwayne Raymond today recounts the time Esquire offered Norman Mailer the opportunity to travel briefly with Barack Obama. His article &#8220;When Mailer Almost Profiled Obama&#8221; appears in The Huffington Post and gives a bit of insight into how Mailer felt about our next president. Raymond writes:
I said to Norman that I thought Obama might have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Edge of Mystery</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/01/15/the-edge-of-mystery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://normanmailersociety.org/?p=420</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer&#8217;s hopes for a President Kennedy in his &#8220;Superman Comes to the Supermarket.&#8221; Bai begins &#8220;The Edge of Mystery&#8221; by referencing Mailer, the great political commentator of the twentieth century:
Weeks before the election of 1960, Norman Mailer, already an accomplished [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frost/Nixon and Mailer</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/12/13/frostnixon-and-mailer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Mailer is mentioned in Allen Barra&#8217;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, Mailer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NM to JFK</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/12/02/nm-to-jfk/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/12/02/nm-to-jfk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mean: Wasn&#8217;t there anyone around to give you the lecture on Cuba? Don&#8217;t you sense the enormity of your mistake &#8211; you invade a country without understanding its music.
The Village Voice is running an excerpt everyday from their archives, and today&#8217;s &#8220;An Open Letter to JFK&#8221; is by Norman Mailer.
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		<title>The Mailer Files 3: Who Killed Marilyn?</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/26/the-mailer-files-3-who-killed-marilyn/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/26/the-mailer-files-3-who-killed-marilyn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Stephens is back with his latest installment of the Mailer Files &#8212; the recently public paper trail of Hoover&#8217;s 15-year investigation of Norman Mailer &#8212; in The Washington Post. This week it&#8217;s &#8220;Who Killed Marilyn Monroe?&#8221; No, it wasn&#8217;t NM. Stephens quotes an FBI memo:
&#8220;Mailer suggests that &#8216;right-wing&#8217; FBI and CIA Agents had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mailer Makes Another Esquire List</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/19/mailer-makes-another-esquire-list/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/19/mailer-makes-another-esquire-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Mailer&#8217;s 1960 nonfiction narrative &#8220;Superman Comes to the Supermarket&#8221; made the &#8220;The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine&#8221; list. From the introduction:
Five years ago, we named “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” by Gay Talese, the greatest story Esquire ever published. Here, as we close out our 75th anniversary celebration, are the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Obscene and Bitter,&#8221; Says FBI</title>
		<link>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/19/obscene-and-bitter-says-fbi/</link>
		<comments>http://normanmailersociety.org/2008/11/19/obscene-and-bitter-says-fbi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on the coattails of the FBI&#8217;s fifteen-year investigation of Norman Mailer comes their literary critique of his work. With a follow-up story to their report on Hoover&#8217;s interest in Mailer, the Washington Post&#8217;s Joe Stephens offers more insight into just what the FBI found out. This week, the FBI&#8217;s literary critic described Mailer&#8217;s Miami [...]]]></description>
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