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MGA Post Follow-Up
Middle Georgia State University has posted a blurb about the recent Lipton’s Journal excerpt published by Times Literary Supplement. Also, the entire TLS article is now available on Mike Lennon’s web site.
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Lipton’s Journal Excerpted in the TLS
The Time Literary Supplement has published an excerpt from the forthcoming Lipton’s Journal: “Saint and Psychopath.” Co-edited by J. Michael Lennon, Gerald R. Lucas, and Susan Mailer, this small sample of Mailer’s 1954–55 journal gives a taste of his marijuana-inspired musings before he published The Deer Park.
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Rare-Book Dealer Charged After Pilfered Eagles Lyrics Come to Light
Glenn Horowitz and two other men are accused of conspiring to sell Don Henley’s notes, including the words to “Hotel California.” He placed the papers of Norman Mailer, Gabriel García Márquez, Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker and others in leading university libraries, and brokered major deals with musicians: In 2016,
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The Outer Limits
In “The Shores of Bohemia,” John Taylor Williams explores 50 years in the iconoclastic summer colonies of Cape Cod. Book review by Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan writes: One of my favorite details in the book is that Norman Mailer invited his frequent intellectual sparring partner James Baldwin to stay in his
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When Vonnegut met Mailer in Cape Cod’s “Helltown”
Provincetown was a place of enchantment, light, and art. But there was a dark side to the literary life there, too. Casey Sherman writes: He loved Provincetown, but most townies did not love him back, at least not anymore. Tavern owners called him a menace, especially now during the off-
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Culture That Made Me: Colm Tóibín on Hemingway, Sean-nós and Cinema
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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April 16, 1973: from Publishers Weekly
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 8 Best Sports Biographies Every Fan Needs To Read
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 To Write & Direct Drama Series About Norman Mailer
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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Pinckney on Mailer
Darryl Pinckney writes “My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours” in The Nation. He surveys the history of “The White Negro” and various contemporaneous and contemporary reactions to it. Pinckney writes: In “The White Negro,” Mailer argues that the postwar bleakness of the 1950s saw the appearance of “a phenomenon,” “the
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World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring
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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A Nuanced Reading of “Canceled” Writers
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,