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...
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.
David Bromwich | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
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.
Charlie Rose | Posted 11.13.2007 | Entertainment
Mailer was on the program 11 times over the years, talking about his books, the art of writing and America.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.12.2007 | Entertainment
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.
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 ...
Norman Mailer | Posted 06.21.2005 | Politics
Since George W. is not only a horse's ass, but vain and platitudinous to boot, it can hardly escape us that he is also serving (with all due inner incandescence) as God's chosen envoy for America.
Norman Mailer | Posted 05.17.2005 | Politics
I'm beginning to see why one would want to write a blog. At present, I have a few thoughts I can certainly not prove, but the gaffe over the Michael Isikoff story in Newsweek concerning the Koran and the toilet is redolent with bad odor.
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