Unresolved dissonance ...
Books, Inq. (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
... Norman Mailer’s Song (1981) . That's a public intellectual for you.
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Norman Mailer’s Song (1981)
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
JULY 18 F or a man who knifed his second wife and liked to sucker-punch his friends, Norman Mailer should have known that literary talent doesn't necessarily make you a nice guy. Early this morning, after being told he couldn't use the staff restroom at a small Manhattan cafe, Mailer protégé Jack Henry Abbott stabbed Richard Adan, the 22-year-old son-in-law of the cafe's owner, in the chest, and left...
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Norman Mailer’s Timely Take on ‘68 Conventions Reissued
Vulture (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Just in time for this year’s Democratic and Republican national conventions comes this 40th-anniversary edition of Norman Mailer’s groundbreaking New Journalistic study of the 1968 nomination contests, with an introduction by — who else? — Frank Rich. Needless to say, the historical parallels between then and now are plenty and grim, and Mailer’s acid, disabused prose may as well have been written...
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Ellen Garrison on ‘All the Sad Young Literary Men’
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Are Keith Gessen and his posse really the voice of the Zeitgeist, the intellectual heirs to Norman Mailer and George Plimpton? Or just the highbrow version of Judd Apatow? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries July 10, 2008 Anywhere Becomes Everywhere July 9, 2008 Pregnant Man Puts the Trans in Gender July 9, 2008 70-Year-Olds Still Get It On, Reports Says July 8, 2008 Watermelon July 7, 2008 The War...
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The Obama-vore's Dilemma
Gristmill (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
By Tom Philpott I read once that during the 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy met Norman Mailer, already a lion of American letters. If I remember correctly, Kennedy let slip that his favorite novel was Mailer's The Deer Park -- thus establishing his impeccable taste and intellectual rigor in the eyes of that mercurial novelist. Mailer went on to write about Kennedy as a kind of existential...
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Bill Clinton goes off deep end
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
The Telegraph UK quotes a “senior Democrat” who said Bill Clinton told friends Obama could “kiss my ass” for support. Someone once said about an exceptionally bad movie that Norman Mailer made that, I have no idea if Norman was drunk when he made this movie, just that I certainly hope he was.
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Marilyn (via Goodreads)
Life and Times (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
read a book on Goodreads Marilyn by Norman Mailer 3:23 pm - Comment
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This ain't exactly Tom Wolfe versus John Updike and Norman Mailer...
Infinite Monkeys (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
...but I smiled a little at Michael Ian Black's barbs at David Sedaris. A teaser: "At a cocktail party, a bottle of lousy champagne is uncorked. You take a swig, grimace, and say, 'Send this swill back to France where...
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Comments for edroso - HaloScan.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
ANOTHER great mind who didn't outlive the Bush administration, along with Norman Mailer, Molly Ivins, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Pryor, David Halberstam...
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FFS #2
Inveresk Street Ingrate (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Great save. Spanish coach is the spitting image of Norman Mailer, btw.
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Gore Vidal
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Interviewed at the NYT. Your new collection includes an essay in which you note, “Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty.” What about American novelists? Can’t think of one. Norman Mailer? Oh, dear, we’re not going to go into pluses and minuses now. Philip Roth? Ditto. I [...]
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The Devil in Norman Mailer - An Interview by Mike Lee
Moderato (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Sitting across from Norman Mailer, whom I’ve known for close to 30 years now, I’m struck by how regal he looks. This is despite the two distinctly different canes resting at his side and that he appears smaller, sitting in his favorite interview chair. The chair has a fanned headrest that gives him this sense [...]
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The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in
davethirn (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in Americaby: Norman Mailer, John Buffalo Mailerpublisher: Nation Books, released: 03 January, 2006price: $10.17 (new), $2.20 (used)Christmas Wish BoxWe at LaunchPoker offer all avid poker fans a chance to make their dreams come true. Send us a letter telling us Important [...]
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The Rescue of the Planet & The Restoration of the Republic; Some Unfinished Business
Words of Power (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Image: White Buffalo Calf Woman and the Sacred Pipe (Marcine Quenzer) The Rescue of the Planet, the Restoration of the Republic, and Some Unfinished Business By Richard Power If Norman Mailer had been alive to see it, he would have remarked on it. Barack Obama understands something about magic. He chose to declare his nomination process victory on the very spot where his Republican rival will be nominated...
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Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his ‘vicious’ mother and rumours of a secret love child
Cynical-C Blog (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
From The Independent: "Norman Mailer?" [Vidal once characterised Mailer, Henry Miller and Charles Manson as brother chauvinists who should be collectively referred to as M3.] "Mailer feuded with me. I knew Norman's syndrome. If I was on the cover of Time and he wasn't, my God he would be insulting me in ...
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