Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer’s hopes for a President Kennedy in his “Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” Bai begins “The Edge of Mystery” by referencing Mailer, the great political commentator of the twentieth century: Weeks before the election of 1960, Norman Mailer, already an [...]
Frost/Nixon and Mailer
by admin on 13. Dec, 2008 in In the Media, Politics
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, [...]
NM to JFK
by admin on 02. Dec, 2008 in Politics
I mean: Wasn’t there anyone around to give you the lecture on Cuba? Don’t you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. The Village Voice is running an excerpt everyday from their archives, and today’s “An Open Letter to JFK” is by Norman Mailer.
The Mailer Files 3: Who Killed Marilyn?
by admin on 26. Nov, 2008 in In the Media, Politics
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 [...]
Mailer Makes Another Esquire List
by admin on 19. Nov, 2008 in Politics, Writing
Norman Mailer’s 1960 nonfiction narrative “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” made the “The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine” 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 [...]
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Conference 2008 Announcement
07. Dec, 2007
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A Sampling of Letters
06. Oct, 2008
- Conference 2009: Hotel Information 16. Nov, 2008
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Mailer Passes at 84
10. Nov, 2007
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Brooklyn Hall of Fame
05. Dec, 2008
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Mike Lennon to the TLS
18. Aug, 2010
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Maggie Mailer’s “The Balloonists”
30. Jul, 2010
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Mailer on Provincetown
09. Jul, 2010
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William Buckley and NM, Part 3
07. Jul, 2010
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William Buckley and NM, Part 2
06. Jul, 2010
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