Norman Mailer

From 'A More Perfect Union' to Prices at the Grand Union

RJ Eskow | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Democratic Primaries, Hillary Clinton, More Perfect Union Speech, Jfk, Lyndon Johnson, Norman Mailer, Barack Obama, Indiana Primary, Politics News

It's becoming clear that Obama needs to do a better job speaking to the kind of voter once condescendingly described as a "regular person."

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Norman Mailer Sex Memoir — X-Rated And Unpublished — Purchased By Harvard

Huffington Post via New York Post | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media

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An unpublished memoir about sex with Norman Mailer, as well as a novel edited by the late author, was recently sold to Harvard (Mailer's alma mater) b...

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Norman Mailer Remembered In Massive Carnegie Hall Memorial

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Memorial, Tina Brown, Charlie Rose, Joan Didion, Sean Penn, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — You need a big block of time, and space, to say goodbye to Norman Mailer. More than 2,000 mourners filled Carnegie Hall to near capa...

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New Kids Say the Darndest, Most Afrocentric Things

David Wild | Posted 04.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Kids on the Block Reunion, New Kids on the Block, Video, Jonathan Knight, Blockheads, The White Negro, NKOTB, Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre, Danny Wood, Hot Moms, Norman Mailer, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Jordan Knight, Entertainment News

I'm not certain if I was the first music writer to attempt to abbreviate New Kids On The Block to NKOTB. But I'm pretty damn sure I was the first to ever publicly dub the Kids' young female fan base as being "Blockheads."

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Mitticisms: "Effectively"

Chris Kelly | Posted 01.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mitt Romney, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Norman Mailer, Romney Panderer, Mitt Romney Pro-Choice, Thomas Aquinas, Mitt Romney Abortion, Politics News

What kind of idiot lies, and in his defense claims that he was trying to split hairs? Mitt Romney is George Bush trying to be Bill Clinton.

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Norman Mailer: The Ultimate Hipster King?

moreintelligentlife.com | Christian Lorentzen | Posted 01.02.2008 | Living

Read More: White Negro, Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Death, Norman Mailer White Negro, Living News

Norman Mailer endorsed murder, or so his critics would have you believe. Christian Lorentzen goes back to the essay in question and finds Mailer guilt...

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Remembering Artists And Entertainers Who Died In 2007

AP | Polly Anderson | Posted 12.29.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Deborah Kerr, Richard Jeni, Celebrities, Luciano Pavarotti, Kurt Vonnegut, Norman Mailer, Entertainment News

World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in t...

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Norman Mailer Awarded "Bad Sex" Prize

Reuters | Posted 11.27.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Bad Sex in Fiction, Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Death, The Castle in the Forest, Entertainment News

Writer Norman Mailer, a giant of the American literary scene and twice a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was posthumously given the Bad Sex in Fiction A...

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A Funny Thing About Norman Mailer

Eric Alterman | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

Read More: Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, Kennedy, Politics News

: When speaking at the memorial service for Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a while back, Mailer made the odd comment that he was really just an acquaintance o...

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If Democrats Chose Gore and Republicans Chose Hagel

Brent Budowsky | Posted 11.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Chuck Hagel, 2008 Race, Alternative Campaigns, Norman Mailer, Al Gore, Politics News

Gore and Hagel may well have greatness in their futures, but what is sad for our democracy is the role they play, and do not play, in our present.

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Thank you, Norman Mailer

Christopher Lydon | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Norman Mailer Memorial, Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Death, Entertainment News

It's been a pleasure since his passing to picture Norman Mailer finally meeting the Maker he's been courting so originally, so well, these many years. There was a theologian inside that novelist.

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Boston Phoenix Basks In The Spotlight

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.15.2007 | Media

Read More: Boston, Maggie Shnayerson, This Is How We Cram Lots of Little Nuggets Into One Item, Lou Dobbs, Stephen Colbert, Norman Mailer, Village Voice, Stephen Colbert for President, Romenesko, Stephen Colbert Rambo, Mainstream Media, Rudy Giuliani, Wayne Barrett, Rudy Giuliani 2008, Boston Phoenix, Boston the City Not the Rock Group, Media News

What makes a trend again? Today the Boston Phoenix is getting the media love, with not one, not two, but three stories getting link love in medialand....

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John Buffalo and Norman Mailer: What Took Us Into Iraq?

David Bromwich | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer Picasso, Norman Mailer Author, Norman Mailer War in Iraq, Norman Mailer Memorial, Norman Mailer Obit, Norris Church, John Buffalo Mailer, Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer, War in Iraq, Norman Mailer, Politics News

Norman Mailer: These administration honchos are very, very intelligent with what they are intelligent at, but they're stupid as sludge when they are stupid.

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My Conversations with Norman Mailer

Charlie Rose | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment

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Mailer was on the program 11 times over the years, talking about his books, the art of writing and America.

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Heaven Just Got A Lot More Interesting

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.12.2007 | Entertainment

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People who are brash and profane and radical are often assumed to be anti-God, but this was certainly not the case with Mailer. He aggressively believed in God, reincarnation, and an afterlife.

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On Norman Mailer's Passing: When the Curtain Rises

Norman Lear | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Norman Mailer Author, Norman Mailer Memorial, Norman Mailer Obit, Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Death, Norman Mailer for Mayor, Charles McGrath, Norman Mailer Blogs, Entertainment News

On Sunday morning, I read Charles McGrath's excellent review of Mailer's life -- and I choose "review" rather than obituary deliberately -- because Mailer was as much a piece of extraordinary theater as he was "towering writer."

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The Late Norman Mailer for President

Chris Kelly | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Norman Mailer Memorial, Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Death, Norman Mailer Blogs, Entertainment News

What would his negatives be? That he's dangerous or crazy? You mean as opposed to McCain? That he's dead? You mean as opposed to Thompson? Viable? If he could keep his mouth shut, he'd be the GOP frontrunner.

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Norman Mailer

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

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Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut visited the studio to sit for a group portrait for Vanity Fair.

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A General Area of Dignity and a Turducken in Every Pot

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.10.2007 | Media

Read More: James Thurber, Richard Simmons, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Saving NOLA, Habitat for Humanity, Fats Domino, What Not to Wear, Global Green, Writers Guild Strike, Norman Mailer, Hollywood Writers Strike, Writers' Strike Opinion, The Late Show With David Letterman, Writers' Strike, Media News

My production note to studio chiefs: come film New Orleans' alternate reality and then give your writers a piece of the new media pie.

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Remembering Norman Mailer

Paul Krassner | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

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When Norman Mailer wrote his first novel, The Naked and the Dead, he used a euphemism--"fug"--for fuck. The first time I encountered Mailer, I asked him about it.

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Norman Mailer's City

RJ Eskow | Posted 11.10.2007 | Living

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Did I like Norman Mailer? It's like asking if I like my own genetic signature. Did I admire Norman Mailer? I don't even understand the question. He has always been with me, and he always will be. Like it or not.

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Norman Mailer: Death and Remembrance

Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Norman Mailer, Norman Mailer Memorial, Norman Mailer Author, Norman Mailer Death, Norman Mailer Obit, Mailer for Mayor, Pulitzer Prize Winner Norman Mailer, Jimmy Breslin, Norman Mailer for Mayor, Entertainment News

Norman Mailer, the Pulitzer-winning novelist and towering figure of American letters, died today in Manhattan, at the age of 84. Over the course of a ...

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'Denied in Full': Federal Judges Grill CIA Lawyers on JFK Secrets

Jefferson Morley | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, 1992 JFK Assassination Records Act, Kennedy Assassination, Cia, Foia, Norman Mailer, Politics News

One of the strongest open government measures ever enacted, the future of the JFK Assassination Records Act is now in question as the CIA seeks judicial permission to defy its provisions.

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Norman Mailer, 84, Hospitalized After Lung Surgery

AP | Posted 10.17.2007 | Entertainment

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Norman Mailer is recovering in a hospital after surgery to remove scar tissue around his lung, his daughter-in-law said Wednesday. "He's been getting...

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Becoming the Top Dog: How to One Up and Down Up

Jill Brooke | Posted 07.06.2007 | Business

Read More: Norman Mailer, Business News

The art of oneupmanship is a delicious sport played daily by thousands, in parlors, posh parties, pubs and public arenas, all with various subtleties, subtexts and motivations.

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