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Tom Friedman: China Olympics Bring a Sea Change (The Hill's Pundit Blog)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:53:11 GMT

Back during the Nixon presidency, Norman Mailer caricatured the binary nature of American politics by referring to left and right as “Beatniks” and “Protestants.” In his book Of a Fire on the Moon, he wrote that the Beatniks had let their guard down, and while they were out getting stoned, the Protestants had sent a [...]

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DVD review: The Executioner's Song (A.V. Club)

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:01:45 GMT

The Executioner's Song aired over two nights onNBC in 1982, earning an Emmy nomination for Norman Mailer (for scripting theadaptation...

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Five best: books about political conventions (Campaign for the American Reader)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:42:00 GMT

CBS's Jeff Greenfield named a five best list of books about political conventions for the Wall Street Journal. One title on his list:Miami and the Siege of Chicago by Norman Mailer Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968 Norman Mailer's over-the-top convention narratives -- Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is "a fat and aged version of a tough Truman Capote on ugly pills" -- capture a...

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Essay: Mailer’s Great American Meltdown (New York Times)

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 04:09:44 GMT

Norman Mailer’s account of the 1968 conventions is a portrait of America, and Mailer, at a bad moment.

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Lost in the Mailer (Brit Lit Blogs)

no-reply@britlitblogs.com (This Space) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:40:00 GMT

Norman Mailer once wrote of Samuel Beckett that, as "he never enters a situation where any of his people might try to break out of whatever trap they are in", his work is "obsessive rather than haunting". This is how Stephen Abell begins his review of Paul Auster's Man in the Dark . Mailer's right of course; not one of Beckett's characters kills themselves. In what other traps...

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Master of Conventions (3quarksdaily)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:27:02 GMT

Christopher Hitchens in The Atlantic Monthly: "I am a 'left conservative.'" That was Norman Mailer's jaunty but slightly defensive self-description when first I met him, at the beginning of the 1980s. At the time, I was inclined to attribute this...

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Just a Bit More Rust Hills (KR Blog)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:57:07 GMT

It’s worth adding that a major part of L. Rust Hills’ literary legacy came in his having kept Norman Mailer in the pages of Esquire during one of Mailer’s tetchy periods. Here, from Carol Polsgrove’s history of Esquire in the ’60’s, It Wasn’t Pretty, Folks, But Didn’t We Have Fun: “It was Rust Hills who brought [...]

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Why We're Failing in Math and Science (O'Reilly Radar)

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:23:53 GMT

Norman Mailer's brilliant novel Why Are We in Vietnam? doesn't talk explicitly about the Vietnam war; it tells a story about American culture and the American psyche, thereby producing a devastating critique of the war with the title and last line alone. In a similar way, it may be easier to understand why America is falling behind at math and...

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Review: Mailer's 'Miami and the Siege of Chicago' (New York Newsday)

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:00:00 GMT

MIAMI AND THE SIEGE OF CHICAGO, by Norman Mailer, New York Review Books, 223 pp, $14.95 paper.

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Wrote Norman Mailer as a Teenage queen by Jim Beattie in 'Brushes with Fame' (SMITH Magazine)

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 04:06:54 GMT

Although at the time I wrote to Norman Mailer I was a 36 year old rounder, conman, literary hack, I pretended to be an 18 year old cheerleader named Buffy. He wrote back and extolled the virtues of my story "New Jersey Turnpike" which I had sent him. After I few months I revealed my true identity. He still continued to write. Said his favorite author was Tolstoy and that (at that time)...

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Preparing for the Death of a Father (Grief | Grieving | Death of a Child)

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:15:58 GMT

by Neil Chethik Sigmund Freud called it “the most poignant loss” of his life. Sean Connery termed it “a shattering blow.” Norman Mailer likened it to “having a hole in your tooth. It’s a pain that can never be filled.” Each year, more than 1.5 million American boys and men lose [...]

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The Womanization Of America, c. 1962 (Jeremayakovka)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:49:03 GMT

Late Night Thought #231 re Norman Mailer: Often tagged as being "reactionaries" or accused of being unthinking apologists for the "radical Right," many so-called "neoconservatives" simply (and doggedly) seek to preserve, or re-examine, or call attention to sometimes forgotten, often...

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"I'll bet John motherfucking Updike doesn't even know who I am." (Isak)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:23:45 GMT

I've used this space to vent my feelings on the romanticised alcoholism of many a "literary giant." From Norman Mailer to Hunter S. Thompson, plastering oneself into bully-stupors too often comes packaged in bemused anecdotes. Here, though, is another take:...

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Ballantine/Random House, Fall 2008 (Buzz Girl)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:10:00 GMT

Met with C.S., who was still catching up after the grand and complicated arrangements for the huge Norman Mailer memorial that was held in Carnegie Hall, to talk about RH and Ballantine books. Coming in September 2008 American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld. The author of Prep returns with an “epic and intimate” story of an ordinary woman who becomes first lady. Based loosely on Laura Bush...

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Unresolved dissonance ... (Books, Inq.)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT

... Norman Mailer’s Song (1981) . That's a public intellectual for you.

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Norman Mailer’s Song (1981) (Bill Peschel)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:21:55 GMT

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,...

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Norman Mailer’s Timely Take on ‘68 Conventions Reissued (Vulture)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:55:00 GMT

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...

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Ellen Garrison on ‘All the Sad Young Literary Men’ (Truthdig)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:08:40 GMT

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,...

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The Obama-vore's Dilemma (Gristmill)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:13:06 GMT

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...

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Bill Clinton goes off deep end (Politics in the Zeros)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:18:24 GMT

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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