http://normanmailersociety.org Devoted to the life and work of American novelist Norman Mailer. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:26:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://normanmailersociety.org/2012/01/25/norman-mailer-playboy-magazine-heavyweight/ http://normanmailersociety.org/2012/01/25/norman-mailer-playboy-magazine-heavyweight/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:04:43 +0000 webmaster http://normanmailersociety.org/?p=969 Playboy magazines get read cover-to-cover, confirming the quip “I buy it for the articles.” Because less than ten percent of each issue contains nudity, the majority of monthly pages are well-known editorial features, such as the Playboy Advisor or the Playboy Interview, advice columns, cultural commentary, humor and literary selections. Using Esquire as a model, Hugh Hefner published fiction to position Playboy as more than amere “skin-magazine.”]]> http://normanmailersociety.org/2012/01/25/norman-mailer-playboy-magazine-heavyweight/feed/ 0 http://normanmailersociety.org/2010/01/07/dahlby-essay/ http://normanmailersociety.org/2010/01/07/dahlby-essay/#comments Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:33:43 +0000 webmaster http://normanmailersociety.org/?p=630 http://normanmailersociety.org/2010/01/07/dahlby-essay/feed/ 0 http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/10/29/review-excerpt-1/ http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/10/29/review-excerpt-1/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:34:11 +0000 webmaster http://normanmailersociety.org/?p=618 http://normanmailersociety.org/2009/10/29/review-excerpt-1/feed/ 0