Legacy

Jul
18
A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience

A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience

Variety has posted a review of Jeff Zimbalist’s How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer by Owen Gleiberman: Forget
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Jul
02
Readings on the Life, Works, and Conflicts of Norman Mailer

Readings on the Life, Works, and Conflicts of Norman Mailer

LitHub has posted “What to Read Before and After Seeing How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer.” It contains a
Mar
29
A Hell of a Performance

A Hell of a Performance

In The New York Review, Andrew Delbanco reviews the LOA publication of The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters,
Oct
16
How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer

WORLD PREMIERE — Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction. From
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Jul
12
Another Round with Norman Mailer

Another Round with Norman Mailer

Writing in the Jewish Review of Books, Jesse Tisch offers a comprehensive overview of Mailer's life and career with emphasis
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Apr
13
Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence

Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence

Peter Keough reviews A Mysterious Country in The Arts Fuse. Keough laments that America seems to lack a current figure
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Apr
11
All Hail Mailer! A Belated Eulogy for a Fellow Jeffersonian

All Hail Mailer! A Belated Eulogy for a Fellow Jeffersonian

In Minding the Campus, Eric Clifford Graf counts Mailer as “best of the American Left.” While Mailer himself might take
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Mar
02
Chris Pine Recommends Mailer

Chris Pine Recommends Mailer

In a recent interview in Esquire, Chris Pine discusses his “Norman Mailer phase” in discussing his book recommendations. He states:
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Feb
17
The Importance of Norman Mailer

The Importance of Norman Mailer

Reviewer David Masciotra has published a detailed review of Mailer’s collection A Mysterious Country. He writes: Critics dismissed his
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Feb
16
In the Ring with Mailer

In the Ring with Mailer

In today’s TLS, James Marcus gets in the ring with Mailer by reviewing two books by Society members J.
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