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...
Reuters | Posted 11.27.2007 | Entertainment
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...
Christopher Lydon | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment
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.
Norman Lear | Posted 11.11.2007 | Entertainment
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."
Chris Kelly | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment
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.
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment
Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal and Kurt Vonnegut visited the studio to sit for a group portrait for Vanity Fair.
Paul Krassner | Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment
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.
RJ Eskow | Posted 11.10.2007 | Living
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.
Posted 11.10.2007 | Entertainment
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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