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Daniel Hautzinger, for WTTW Chicago, revisits Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago, a work of New Journalism that captures the upheaval of the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The article highlights Mailer’s incisive portrayal of the convention’s chaos, from the brutal clashes between protesters and police to
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Variety has posted a review of Jeff Zimbalist’s How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer by Owen Gleiberman: Forget what Mailer could or could not get away with today. He was feeding the fire of controversy and provocation 50 and 60 years ago; even then, he was considered a
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LitHub has posted “What to Read Before and After Seeing How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer.” It contains a slight introduction and links to articles mostly written by LitHub.
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Several Mailer family and Society members will join Jeff Zimbalist at the premiere of How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer for question and answer sessions at the Film Forum on June 28–30, 2024: * Friday, June 28 at 7:50pm: Susan Mailer. * Saturday, June 29 at 5:30: Michael
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American psychoanalyst, writer, and daughter of legendary novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer is joined by writer J. Michael Lennon to reflect on the life and times of Norman Mailer, particularly about Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal. Listen to the interview.
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A trailer for How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer has been posted. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, the documentary that features several Society members, opens Friday, June 28 at Film Forum.
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In The New York Review, Andrew Delbanco reviews the LOA publication of The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters, 1945–1946, edited by J. Michael Lennon. He writes: Norman Mailer wrote with an unstable mixture of self-indulgence and self-awareness, bravado and diffidence, glibness and bracing honesty, macho posturing and
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WORLD PREMIERE — Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction. From his formative years in Brooklyn, through his career as a preeminent cultural voice, we follow Mailer’s life through 6 marriages, 9 children, 11 bestselling books and 2 Pulitzer Prizes
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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’
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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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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