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In advance of his appearance at West Cork Literary Festival, the Co Wexford-born writer selects some of his touchstone references in literature, film and music. Colm Tóibín on Norman Mailer: In my mid-20s, I read a lot of Norman Mailer’s books: Armies of the Night, which is a description
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We now have a list of current and upcoming Mailer projects, thanks to J. Michael Lennon. Oxford University Press Mailer Bibliography (2022), compiled by Maggie McKinley. The Naked and the Dead, 75th anniversary edition, includes three additional prefaces and 23 wartime letters to wife Beatrice and parents; edited by J.
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Maggie McKinley wins the Robert F. Lucid Award for Norman Mailer in Context in 2021. Congratulations, Professor McKinley. Norman Mailer in Context This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer's body of work. Buy
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Grosset & Dunlap was founded in 1898 and, after having numerous owners, is now a children’s imprint of the Penguin Group. In April 1973, however, it announced its planned September publication of a very adult book: Norman Mailer’s biography of Marilyn Monroe. Plugged as “the book of the
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The Fight takes the number one position: Centered around one of the biggest boxing matches of all time, this 1975 book details the story of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s “Rumble in the Jungle” the year prior. Mailer is able to offer one of the more nuanced depictions of
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James Gray will write and direct a series about Norman Mailer based on J. Michael Lennon’s biography Norman Mailer: A Double Life. The series will be produced by Mailer Tuchman Media, run by John Buffalo Mailer. Mailer will tell the story of the rebel-intellectual, who documented the journey America
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Mailer’s The Fight comes out on top in “World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring.” Kieran Spratt writes: The meeting between an aging Muhammad Ali and the seemingly unstoppable George Foreman in the jungle of Zaire remains as important now as it did 48 years ago.
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Readers respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about his father and other “canceled” writers in the Boston Globe. A nuanced reading of ‘canceled’ writers - The Boston GlobeReaders respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about work by his father, Norman Mailer, and other ‘canceled’ writers.The Boston GlobeUpdated February 8,
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Michael Mailer writes “Canceling my father, Norman Mailer: The US needs to stop eating its own” in the Boston Globe. He argues, “It needs to stop canceling great writers who made essential contributions to our cultural vibrancy. Committing bad acts does not invalidate their cultural legacies.” Canceling my father, Norman
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David Klion argues that the The White Negro “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored for its antiquated racial language.” He reminds those proponents of cancel culture that Mailer “captured something urgent about [his] time, challenged an older generation’s conventional wisdom, and cultivated a
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Michael Mailer contextualizes the Cancel Mailer controversy and makes an argument for publishing companies to be a place for the “free exchange of ideas” in “What Norman Mailer’s ‘Cancellation’ Reveals.” Via The Spectator. Mailer continues: This row isn’t just about my father. It points to a larger issue
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In “The effort to ‘delete’ American novelist Norman Mailer,” David Walsh argues that “[t]he censorship of Mailer’s work has a thoroughly reactionary, antidemocratic content.” Walsh summarizes the Cancel Mailer movement so far, putting in context with the other controversies in Mailer’s life. He continues: The issue of