Russian Spy

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 [...]

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Norman Mailer: The American

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.  [...]

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Mailer on Life

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

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Mailer on Violence

Mailer on Violence

“Violence is the last frontier in literature.” Interview with Andrew O’Hagan, Paris Review, No. 181 (Summer 2007).

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A Norman Life

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 [...]

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Mailer on Marriage

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.”

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The 2010 Norman Mailer Center Honorees

The 2010 Norman Mailer Center Honorees

The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony is proud to announce this year’s Mailer Prize winners to be honored at the Center’s Annual Benefit Gala, which will be held on October 19, 2010, 7:00 PM at Cipriani 42nd Street, in New York City. The 2010 Norman Mailer Lifetime Achievement Prize will be [...]

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Writers Colony Gala

This year at our Annual Benefit Gala, on October 19, 2010, the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony will honor the great Turkish writer and 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk by presenting him with the most distinguished Mailer Prize for Lifetime Achievement. The Gala will again be held at Cipriani 42nd Street, New York City. [...]

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