Drifting this week down the East River, against the clamor of boats at work on the waterway, is a surreal sight: a barge outfitted with a mysterious replica of Norman Mailer’s New York home. The structure stands nearly four stories tall, maintains a sculptured state that took more than three weeks to assemble and requires [...]
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John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements
John Mailer, son of Norman Mailer, joins 80,000 supporters of campaign on Change.org to ban sex ads that may feature minors on Village Voice-owned Backpage.com.
Feminine Take on Masculine World
Over the weekend at a gallery on West 27th Street, the young artist and onetime Playboy model Katrina Eugenia unveiled her first solo exhibition. The show itself has an epigram from Mr. Mailer’s “The Gospel According to the Son.”
John Buffalo
John Buffalo Mailer has been featured around the ‘Net. Here are a couple: He is regularly featured on Big Think. In his latest snippet, he discusses preparing for his role in Wall Street 2. He is interviewed in the Huffington Post about his new book in “John Buffalo Mailer Talks New Orleans Through The Eyes [...]
John Buffalo Mailer Runs With the Bulls For Wall Street 2
John Buffalo Mailer, the pouty-lipped 31-year-old son of Norman and Norris Church Mailer, has mainly been a theater actor and playwright. (Hello Herman, which he wrote in college, recently underwent a revival in Los Angeles, with Sawyer Spielberg, son of Steven, playing the lead.) But recently, Mr. Mailer finished filming for Wall Street 2, the [...]
Summer of ’69
In The American Conservative, John Buffalo Mailer recounts how Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin, two non-professional politicians, tried to liberate NYC with their 1969 mayoral campaign: they squared off in the 1969 Democratic primary against four standard-issue liberals. (Pop quipped of one, “I can’t get a grasp on a mind this small.” His campaign manager, [...]
John Buffalo Interviewed in the Daily Eagle
Brad Lockwood, of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, sits down with John Buffalo Mailer for a chat. In “John Buffalo Mailer: A Brooklyn Jew with Cowboys in Arkansas,” John Buffalo discusses his experience as editor at High Times, his own writing, and his relationship with his father: I try to focus on the work and not [...]
NM & John Buffalo Converse & Book Miscellany
The New York magazine published a conversation “between a man of legendary fury and his son preparing to go to the barricades about the uses and abuses of Bush hatred.” Norman Mailer and John Buffalo converse in “Father to Son: What I’ve Learned About Rage.” Finally, three recent books have material on Mailer: Mickey Knox’s [...]