Norman-Mailer
A testament to the power of benignant narcissism.
Throughout “Out of Left Field,” Stan Isaacs revisits events he covered decades earlier, some of them as significant as the World Series, some of them as silly as frog jumping.
Over the years, Lee Gutkind has been one of the most persistent and impassioned voices making the case for the value of creative nonfiction.
In his centennial year, it’s difficult not to see that Norman Mailer’s literary standing is at an inflection point.
Over six decades Norman Mailer managed, by turns, to engage and enrage and stir the zeitgeist’s pot.
The 1979 documentary Town Bloody Hall is a time tunnel passageway into what stand-up comedians used to call “women’s lib.” It is still liable to raise a gendered ruckus — and provide a rollicking good time.
The Wooster Group deconstruction adds layers of artificiality to what may or may not have been a serious event.
It’s refreshing and more than a little nostalgic to experience the trials, triumphs, and tribulations of Mailer’s time through his own combative eyes..
By Bill Marx and Harvey Blume I was asked by National Public Radio’s Morning Edition to write an appreciation of the late Norman Mailer. I have posted an unabridged version of this necessarily short piece. After that, I have placed an interview Harvey Blume had with Mailer after the publication of his 1995 book Oswald’s…
Book Review: Advertisements for Democracy — Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence
Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.
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