Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
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Salon’s Graham Tarrant revisits Mailer’s timeless literary feuds with Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe.
These are the Apollo 11 secrets no-one ever told you about.
Patch revisits Mailer and Jimmy Breslin’s 1969 New York mayoral campaign: they ran to win, but they didn’t.
The Washington Post recalls Mailer and Jimmy Breslin’s entertaining but ineffective 1969 run for mayor of New York.
Danielle Mailer’s paintings go on view at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, Connecticut.
The New York Post reports that Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden will step down from the Hearst magazine that once published Mailer.
Norman Mailer’s MoonFire Is Getting a Special 50th Anniversary Release from TASCHEN.
Via GoErie: a 1961 news photo of Mailer leaving a Manhattan courtroom as sentencing is deferred in the Adele Morales stabbing case.
Fifty years ago today the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Mailer for his “nonfiction novel” Armies of the Night, an account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.