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Writing in the Jewish Review of Books, Jesse Tisch offers a comprehensive overview of Mailer's life and career with emphasis on his Jewishness. Tisch writes: Sampling Mailer’s biographies feels like reading a mythical fable: a creature of vast energy and ambition, a great, unchained life force. “I’
Events
Creative Center for the Arts presents: A Ticket to the Circus written by Bonnie Culver, directed by Michelle Danner An exclusive Virtual Theater Experience starring Academy-Award Nominee Anne Archer based on the memoir by Norris Church-Mailer streaming from June 1st to June 25 Thursday through Sunday at 7 p.m.
Writing for The Baffler, Rob Madole reviews the Library of America’s latest edition of The Naked and the Dead, and discusses Mailer’s experience of death during World War II through his letters. Madole writes: [The letters] reveal . . . a Mailer busy fashioning himself into one of the earliest inhabitants
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Peter Keough reviews A Mysterious Country in The Arts Fuse. Keough laments that America seems to lack a current figure who might guide us through these interesting times. Keough writes: Unfortunately, these days we don’t have anyone of the caliber of a Mailer — or a Hunter S. Thompson, or
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In Minding the Campus, Eric Clifford Graf counts Mailer as “best of the American Left.” While Mailer himself might take issue with this categorization, Graf’s point is well taken in this lengthy homage to Mailer’s career. Graf writes: Whatever Mailer says, and whatever is said about Mailer, he’
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In a recent interview in Esquire, Chris Pine discusses his “Norman Mailer phase” in discussing his book recommendations. He states: I just went through a huge Norman Mailer phase. I read The Naked and the Dead, which he wrote when he was fucking twenty-five. His insight into the human mind
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The podcast Open Source “un-forgets” Norman Mailer on their latest episode “Norman Mailer Turns 100” with an interview of the editors of A Mysterious Country, J. Michael Lennon and John Buffalo Mailer. They write: We are summoning Norman Mailer in his hundredth-birthday season, what could be his revival time, to
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Reviewer David Masciotra has published a detailed review of Mailer’s collection A Mysterious Country. He writes: Critics dismissed his concerns about democracy as alarmist and paranoid, but recent years, unfortunately, have made him appear prescient. Donald Trump cleared a public park of peaceful protesters with federal forces so he
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In today’s TLS, James Marcus gets in the ring with Mailer by reviewing two books by Society members J. Michael Lennon and Robert J. Begiebing, Mailer’s Last Days and Norman Mailer at 100, respectively. Marcus gives an overview of Mailer’s controversial life, including the recent notion of
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David Mikics weighs in on the current cancel Mailer controversy. He writes: Mailer saw into the deep fissures of Sixties America. Some of these divisions are still here today, like the one between a progressive college-educated elite and an underclass that cares far more about bread-and-butter issues than about the
Interview
Published also for Mailer’s birthday, Ronald Fried has interviewed J. Michael Lennon about his latest memoir Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature, Lennon’s relationship with Mailer, and American literature in general. Fried writes: At the age of 80, Lennon has lived
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To celebrate Mailer’s centenary and their publication of The Naked and the Dead, the Library of America has posted a page with links for Mailer’s life and work. They write: Below, we collect a handful of Mailer-related writings, interviews, videos, and scholarly resources from across the web that