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...' ([[67.15]]), with this inscription: “I guess you can’t dine out on tales of my misconduct forever.”
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...Gate, three days after winning the Pulitzer Prize for ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]). Rpt: [[69.80]]. See [[69.30]].
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...y, William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, his films, and race relations in the U.S.
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...''Beyond the Law'', ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]), the Irish and the Jews. Rpt: [[88.6]]. See [[84.18]].
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...tle}}__NOTOC__[[File:Leeds-SVNM.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer''.]]
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...ut of a superficial knowledge and from a tangent, and so was seeing facets of him they [close friends] had long forgotten about.”
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...vel as History: The Battle of the Pentagon,” book 2 of ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]). See [[68.2]].
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He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Delaware (BA), and received
his JD from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham,
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...t side of my face is boyish, saintly, bisexual, psychopathic, and suggests the victim.
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...veral of Mailer’s comments on the chaos in the country, and this: “The act of writing is so damnably hard, such a grind and so grim that I hate to do it.
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...s of the Night'' ([[68.8]]). His speech provided the title for this piece. The full speech appears in ''Existential Errands'' ([[72.7]]). See [[69.3]], [[
[[Category:Works in the 1980s]]
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...statement, prefigures his argument against the war in ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]).
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...ee were nominated for the [[w:National Book Award|National Book Award]]; ''Armies'' won it and a [[w:Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer Prize]] as well.</ref>
Let me thank you for your letter, but writing articles has a bit of drudgery to it for me, and now I’m free, for a year at least, to work on
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...ht to know what corrections to make for the inevitable large or small bias of your personality.” See [[69.26]], [[74.20]].
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...[[48.2]]), ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' ([[67.15]]), and ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]). Rpt: excerpts in [[03.7]].
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...gave negative reviews. He liked Mailer’s reading from ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]), and quotes his comment about President Johnson, who had just
[[Category:Works in the 1960s]]
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...tory as a Novel: The Steps of the Pentagon,” book 1 of ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]). See [[68.6]].
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...ons of history, the possibility of fascism coming to America, the miseries of airplane travel, television, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Several students and Pr
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...ull text of Mailer’s speech is in ''Existential Errands'' ([[72.7]]) and ''The Essential Mailer'' ([[82.19]]). See [[69.4]], [[74.20]], [[86.34]].
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...ead'' ([[48.2]]), ''An American Dream'' ([[65.7]]) and ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]). See [[49.3]], [[62.24]], [[65.1]], [[65.13]], [[65.21]], [[68
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...d for ''The Armies of the Night'' ([[68.8]]) had on his campaign for mayor of New York.
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'''“Superman Comes to the Supermarket” Sixty Years On'''
* [[Enid Stubin]] — “Vote the Rascals In”: Mailer's Candidacy for Mayor of New York City”
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...s somewhat better, as a speech; my version suited the story better. I used the actual speech, with some reluctance.”
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...nfeld and Nicolson, October. Nonfiction narrative on the anti-war March on the Pentagon, 317 pp., $5.95.}}
...|Beverly]]; An acknowledgment to Sandy Charlebois for work beyond the call of duty.”
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...d America” in ''Pieces and Pontifications'' ([[82.16]]). Solomon reprinted the full interview in her collection, ''Horse-Trading and Ecstasy''. San Franci
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...with ''The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer'' ([[67.11]]) under the title ''The Essential Mailer'' ([[82.19]]).
...desire to have one’s immediate say on contemporary matters kept diverting the novelistic impulse into journalism.|author=Mailer|source=72.7}}
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...th anniversary conference on The March on the Pentagon/''The Armies of the Night''.” |url=https://prmlr.us/mr08gord}}
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''Wild 90'' premieres 7 January, and ''Beyond the Law'' 2 April.
...and enthusiastic reviews, including a front page review by Alfred Kazin in the ''New York Times Book Review'' on 5 May.
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...and the evening, the fear and the pride, and she has seen the applause and the attacks, and I know that she has felt it all. And I’ll bet you this —
...ished the conversation and I said, “Where are you going?” Norman said, “To the hospital.” He looked at me with soft fear in his eyes, and he said, “I
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This is a critical study of all of Norman Mailer’s
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...off the egos of the protesters. For the first time, for some readers, many of these historic counterculture figures are given flesh and blood, if not rea
{{dc|dc=N|orman Mailer who marched unabashed}} and unafraid through the 1960’s American counterculture and assailed our literary senses throughou
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...'. I took a few writing courses and tried writing the novel again. Instead of becoming a writer, I became a teacher. No novel was written.
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...n six decades of work, Norman Mailer made the best seller list with eleven of his books, more than any other post-war American writer.|url=https://prmlr.
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...birthday. No other writer of Mailer’s generation had best sellers in each of six consecutive decades.
...criticized him for making movies, debating feminists, boxing on the ''[[w:The Dick Cavett Show|Cavett Show]]'' and getting into scrapes at cocktail parti
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...ritics, book reviewers, feminists, and, as if by necessity, fellow writers of his own generation.
...women and proudly admitted history of self-advertising accounted for most of his battle scars.
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...iege of Chicago'' ([[68.25]]) is a finalist for the National Book Award in the history and biography category.
...t Wagner wins, only to lose to Independent Party candidate John Lindsay in the general election.
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...l discussions, film viewings, and more — centered around the life and work of Norman Mailer.
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...|Presented at the Mailer-Jones Conference, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin, November 10, 2011}}|url=https://prmlr.us/lennmatt }}
...illiam Buckley, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag, helped establish the creative writer as important a commentator as politicians, pundits and prof
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...bi lived in the ground floor apartment of the building I lived in and over the fall and winter months we became friends.
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This year marks Volume 11 of the ''Review''. As many of our readers know, the production
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...e Cutting Edge of Style/''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' and ''The Armies of the Night''}}
...the moralities are transmitted, parody is, in fact, the classical version of Hip.
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...his book ''St. George and the Godfather'', about the political conventions of 1972.
...at Norman Mailer sought ''my'' opinion. I’ve told that story many times in the years since.
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...n Mailer''/</span>8. ''The Armies of the Night'' and ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago''}}
...cution of it, and since the books are similar in tone and message, it is ''Armies'' with which I am primarily concerned in this chapter.
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...as a revelatory experience that took me in directions quite different from the elegant pastiches I had written as an undergraduate at Cambridge.
...ppeared, and reading as many as I could find time for, ''The Armies of the Night'' being particularly admired and re-read.
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...ast=Holmes|first=Constance E.|last1=Zinck |first1=Shannon L. |note=Much of the following has been incorporated into ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: Works and Day
...} Norman Mailer answers questions concerning his new novel ''The Castle in the Forest''.
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...name of David Ogilvy who was responsible for Shweppervescence, the Man in the Hathaway shirt, and other such towering contributions to western civilizati
...ry comment on the buttoned down hubris of those who were busy inventing “''the big idea''” on Madison Avenue. I dimly remember what a profound effect it
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...aphies of reviews and essays. Many of the following contain a bibliography of reviews and/or critical articles.
The reviews were chosen because of:
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...use then you could certainly explore your character's minds, not the least of whom could be young Adolf Hitler.|author={{NM}} |source=[[07.23]]}}
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...This contradiction establishes the fundamental conflict of the memoir and the relationships Shainberg develops, mainly with his literary influences Samue
...to Shainberg’s first memoir, ''Ambivalent Zen'', and a friendly goading of the writer that begins their friendship—one that continues through Mailer’s
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...go by — I want to go back to a moment when I can respond appropriately and the moments don’t arrive,” Mailer responded.
...e occasion, after brashly notifying Gore Vidal of a best-seller listing in the ''Chicago Tribune'' that attributed ''Lincoln'' as well as ''Tough Guys Don
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...before e-mails, before cell phones, before fax machines — at least before the cheap accessibility to fax machines — when you wanted to send somethi
...'. And the thing about him was, like Ali, who called himself “The Greatest of All Time,” Mailer’s work was often that good. He pissed off feminists,
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...ny. No Mailer book brings us as close to events and character as this work of creative nonfiction. Its unperformative, transparent style allows our consc
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{{start|In this intelligent book, the first volume-length critical study}} of Mailer since
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...ers of the "New Journalism", he was a relentless innovator and connoisseur of narrative forms and techniques.
...nd ''[[Harlot's Ghost]]'' (1991). His biographical works include portraits of [[w:Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn Monroe]], [[w:Muhammad Ali|Muhammad Ali]], [[w:H
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====The Politics of American Democracy====
* [[Bob Begiebing]], “Mailer and the Founders”
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...his life, to “put everything in,” and he has: triumphs, disasters and all the warts.
...ask me what I regret, I’d say the lost opportunities are close to the top of my list.”
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...ue kid. There would be a movie, too, a documentary called ''Norman Mailer: The Sanction to Write''.
...out for two? Scatology, orgasm, and Henry Miller. I became a real reader, of a sort.
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...'' and ''[[The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer]]'' and gives an overview of Mailer’s ''oppositional'' career as a writer and public voice.
.... Schultz]] for ''Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties''.
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...d him, he always did what he could in an individual encounter to dismantle the unreality that such preconditioning tends to generate.
...— they are subjects. Mailer’s work helped me see that part of the activity of an artist is to transform objects into subjects.
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...nyone around to give you the lecture on Cuba? Don’t you sense the enormity of your mistake—you invade a country without understanding its music.”
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...s, interviews, protests, and debates that helped shape American culture of the twentieth century.
...for ''[[w: Life |Life]]'', ''[[w:Esquire|Esquire]]'', ''[[w:The New Yorker|The New Yorker]]'', ''[[w:Harper's|Harper's]]'', ''[[w:Partisan Review|Partisan
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...word became part of his chapter on the occult in his book about writing, ''The Spooky Art''.
...in Brooklyn Heights in those days, and Mr. Mailer’s brownstone was across the street from where Judith lived and about a block from my apartment.
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...://www.6sqft.com/31-literary-icons-of-greenwich-village/ 31 literary icons of Greenwich Village]” wherein Mailer’s 73 Perry Street is number 15.
...ne-woman show based on the [[Norris Church Mailer]]’s memoir ''A Ticket to the Circus'' will soon be produced, [https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/i
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...t-size:22px;">{{BASEPAGENAME}}/</span>Genre-Bending in ''The Armies of the Night''}}
...sed to what parts are fiction and history, and how do we distinguish among the genres? Mailer
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...The Mailer Review''/Volume 10, 2016/</span>Mailer’s Letters: A Colloquy at the Strand Bookstore}}
...nder of The Norman Mailer Center, moderated the discussion.<ref>A video of the event is [https://youtu.be/AZ0BdOZevxI streaming on Youtube].</ref>|url=htt
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...tured Vision of Norman Mailer''/</span>7. ''Advertisements for Myself'', ''The Presidential Papers'', and ''Cannibals and Christians''}}
...ce, which is to reach its finest expression to date in ''The Armies of the Night'' (1968).
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...ed the acquisition of the entire [[Norman Mailer]] archive. In response to the question “Why Texas?” Mailer commented,
...ca. What the hell. Since it’s going to Texas, let’s say one of the best in the world.}}
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...of themes and techniques, especially early narrators; includes description of extra-literary activities.
...ditor-last=Adams |editor-first=Laura |editor-mask=1 |date=1974 |title=Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up |url=https://archive.org/details/willrea
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...s the key to his fascination with boxing.|note=This essay consists largely of previously published material with substantial additions and emendations. |
...Ryan O’Neal]] and others. The title of the piece comes from the comparison of boxing to chess.{{sfn|Mailer|1998a|pp=1045–1052}}
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...h had one root in the Buck Rogers radio show, and a second in the Princess of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Barbara remembers her brother encouragi
...ipt of the story provided by Stephen Chipkin, Barbara and Norman’s cousin, the story was written in January 1933. Mailer’s parents mailed this copy to B
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...ese seriously may be, in one of his favorite phrases, as good a definition of morality as we are likely to get.
...talk shows, and any writer contending with him for the championship crown of American letters.
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...ink=y}} from my movie ''Maidstone'' ([[71.28]]) which was just perfect for the book.”
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...final letters, but for being such a weighty volume, it actually seems kind of light when compared to what Google can amass.
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...t the University of Texas in Austin, November 9–11, 2006. I am grateful to the director, Thomas Staley, and his colleagues for inviting me to participate.
...exactly repeated. Invariably he was engaging the moment, never writing for the uniform edition.
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...going mad. That scares me, and I pull up, and begin to build up again. But the process is fascinating.
...he book a little, just enough to whet their curiosity, for they are two of the people I’m going to approach. Isherwood knows me slightly, and Huxley I m
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...m'' represents a retrogression rather than an advance in the development of Mailer’s art.
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...eriences, as revealed in the stunning breadth and depth of the holdings in the Texas Mailer Archives.|note=Harry Ransom Humanities Center, Flair Conferenc
...candidate,<ref>In 1969, Mailer ran for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City; he came
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.../</span>Literature As Life; Life As Literature: Mailer’s Existential Shout of Defiance in ''An American Dream''}}
...' and ''The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer'' recalls the early influence of Mailer, particularly ''[[An American Dream]]''.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr12le
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...-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 5, 2011/</span>Norman Mailer and the Novel 2.0}}
...:Main Page|GRLucas]]. I would also like to elicit comments and feedback on the ideas I attempt to explore within.}}|url=https://prmlr.us/mr11luca}}
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...incommensurable situations and concepts. Instead, he takes Keats’s notion of negative capability a step further than Keats and his contemporaries.}}
...hat to ask him. I didn’t know if he would reject my ideas and laugh me out of his house. This was something I need to figure out for myself, I felt.
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...781956763379 Norman Mailer’s ''Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy''] edited by [[J. Michael Lennon]] and [[John Buffalo Ma
...er The best books to start reading Norman Mailer]” on Shepherd. Thanks for the recommendations. ''[https://amzn.to/3yZ049F Norman Mailer at 100: Conversat
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...and could make his voice heard.</ref> Epstein was known in the industry as the most demanding and least tolerant editor (with authors and copy editors and
...s many details (usually) after the substantive editing has been completed. The goal is to make a book internally consistent (and, when possible, consisten
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...set of ''Maidstone'' (1970); included are a number of photographs taken on the set. |note=© Daniel Kramer |url=https://prmlr.us/mr03kra}}
...I would play an important role in the film, an un-cast character listed in the film credits only as “Man.” And I may possibly have saved Norman’s li
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...s been asking since the day Oswald himself was gunned down in full view of the television public: Did he do it? And, if so, why? |url=https://prmlr.us/mr0
...as he inevitably must, to wrestle with the tantalizing and sublime mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald. His pleading is entitled, ''Oswald’s Tale: An American
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...e, following his consecration as the Episcopal Bishop of New York in 1970. The following year I introduced him to Norman Mailer.
...e scion of a vast fortune (Bankers’ Trust), he became a powerful voice for the poor and disenfranchised, for women’s rights and gay liberation. He acted
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...be not only present, but in large part responsible for the stunning power of that book.
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...Time Machine, and the Chorus, which seemed inspired by the Camera Eye and the Profiles in ''USA''. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr01ken}}
...t and not-so-intelligent obscenity with the panache of Norman Mailer. None of this had much to do with Kennedy.
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...nytimes.com/1979/09/09/archives/life-with-mailer-as-his-new-book-comes-out-the-notorious-author-is.html |url-access=limited |magazine=New York Times Magaz
...e Black Boy Looks at the White Boy |title=Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son |url=https://archive.org/details/nobodyknowsmynam00bald |locat
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...n ''Drunken Boat'' 6 (Spring 2004). Cross-posted here with permission from the editor and Barry H. Leeds. See [[96.4]].}}
...The Naked and the Dead]]''. My father, particularly impressed by “The Time of Her Time,” gave me ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''. I still have that b
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...rch Mailer/</span>Remembering Norris: Excerpts from an Unpublished Account of Norman Mailer’s Last Days}}__NOTOC__
...Entries were made every few days, along with occasional reflections. While the log focuses on Mailer and his table talk, Norris is on almost every page, a
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...omparisons between his reporting of political campaigns with the reporting of Hunter Thompson.|url=http://prmlr.us/mr13mos}}
...et the challenge of creating compelling narratives in the relative absence of real-life drama.
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...ranscendental. The poetics is also plural in its underlying statics and in the narrative ''dynamics'' that these statics help constitute. }}
...“art film.”}} Here my emphasis is on the last, a ''creator-specific'' type of simplifying but empowering deep structure.
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...de in order to begin a final revision of ''The Deer Park'', which Putnam’s—the seventh publisher to consider it—accepted for fall publication.
...n identity, discussed at length in ''Lipton’s'', as the Alpha-Omega theory of Kittredge Gardiner, a CIA analyst.}}
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 10, 2016/</span>Remembering Barry Leeds}}
...butes submitted from other friends of Barry Leeds follow the comments from the panel.}}
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...t was autobiography; he believed writing one would be a tombstone, the end of his literary career.
...ated my comments on each with a characteristic letter (or an excerpt) from the decade in question. Here goes.
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...le="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 11, 2017/</span>Children of Major Writers}}
...d at Monmouth University in Long Branch, New Jersey on September 31, 2016. The panel was organized by Susan Mailer and moderated by [[J. Michael Lennon]].
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...e final chapter, when Rojack confronts Kelly in his penthouse apartment in the Waldorf Towers.
...into several languages and except for one brief period has never gone out of print.
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...ican writer and social commentator, stems from both the intellectual ideas of Judaism and how these ideas make themselves manifest in our daily lives.|ur
...htful to watch Norman explain the Hebrew alphabet to John and read some of the Hebrew script.
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.../Volume 9, 2015/</span>The Beatster, the White Negro, and the Evolution of the Hipster in ''Fight Club''}}
...t or spiritual seeker, in many ways mirroring Mailer’s hipster but without the violence.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr10moss}}
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...iews, commentary, discussions, and other rare content by Norman Mailer and the people who knew him best. This archive currently runs from 2015 though 2018
...er’s ’60s ambitions, ''[[The Deer Park]]'', Picasso, and ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]''. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-1 Archive] || [https
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...''The Mailer Review''/Volume 9, 2015/</span>Fly Boys and Angels: Mailer on the Moon}}
...is of the complex contexts of Mailer’s groundbreaking work, ''Of a Fire on the Moon''.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr15glen}}
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...|page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Reprinted by Project Mailer with permission of Robert Begiebing. ([[83.10]])</ref>}}
...:1983 Mailer and Begiebing.jpg|thumb|Robert Begiebing and Norman Mailer in the latter’s Brooklyn apartment, September 1982. Photo by Christopher Johnson
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...ressed edition of the journal to be published in the future and to include the Mailer-Lindner correspondence. [This system has been updated to correspond
...mind is not preserved in learned volumes but in the living mental organism of everyone.|author=[[w:Carl Jung|Carl Jung]]|source=''Psychology and Religion
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...arn |abstract=An examination of the dimensions, complications, and rewards of collecting works by Norman Mailer. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr03ahe }}
...t good art provokes strong feelings—positive or negative. Well, if that is the measure, I would say that Norman Mailer was
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...cannot imagine any situation better for the beginning of a career.|author=The speaker is Norman Mailer's contemporary, fellow novelist, and frequent tele
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...iler’s five-day visit to Alaska in {{date|1965}} chronicles the details of the only visit Mailer made to Alaska.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr02kau}}
{{dc|dc=T|he post-climax of Norman Mailer’s ''[[An American Dream]]''}} (1965) features
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...last=Holmes|first=Constance E.|last1=Lennon|first1=J. Michael|note=Much of the following has been incorporated into ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: Works and Day
...the continuing stream of narratives, essays, interviews, poems, letters to the editor, and drawings by Mailer will eventually be gathered, it is hoped, in
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...ive this reader, and thousands of other readers, Norman Mailer, a trace of the man.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr03mar}}
blood sport, a voyeur’s dream. When I proposed to review the four central
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...chapter of the volume. Permission to reprint has been graciously given by the author.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr14midd}}
...at conversation with him is an attempt to suggest who he is by describing the tones in which he speaks his more-or-less familiar words, by giving their p
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...llenges of success, fiction vs. nonfiction, American writers, and a number of other topics. |note=This interview originally appeared in ''Endangered Spec
...Guys Don’t Dance]]'', ''[[Harlot’s Ghost]]'', ''[[The Gospel According to the Son]]''.
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...tor recounts his memories of working with Norman Mailer on the productions of ''Strawhead'' and ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'', both directed by Norman Mai
...church anymore. It’s been converted into a theater: [[w:The Actors Studio|The Actors Studio]]. And I have just finished performing in a scene from Norman
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..., but restrained by the metes and bounds of reality. The next, he could be the celebrated novelist, startlingly fresh, daring and powerful. He could reach
...sian war that left us mocking the principles, self-reliance and patriotism of our parents and their parents, and their parents before them.
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...e did you meet Norman for the first time? What were your first impressions of him, both as a person and as a celebrated author?
...This was just before the election. McGovern was running against Nixon and the country was in ferment.
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...2px;">{{BASEPAGENAME}}/</span>Mailer and Emerson: ''Lipton’s Journal'' and the Dissident Soul}}
...ife and literary work—in opposition to the society within which one lives. The rebellious path to such a journal is through solitude.|url=http://prmlr.us/
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...ont-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 3, 2009/</span>Norman Mailer: The Magician as Tragic Hero}}
...rman Mailer’s novel, ''[[Ancient Evenings]]''.<ref>Reprinted by permission of Robert J. Begiebing. From {{cite book |last= |first= |date=1989 |title=Towa
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...x;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 10, 2016/</span>Norman Mailer’s Reception of Inherited Sociocultural Norms (1950–1960)}}__NOTOC__
...’s reception of various modes of sociocultural inheritance.|note=In memory of Robert W. Lewis.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr10nakj}}
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...rch skills, nor could I have made my deadline without the much-needed help of Helena Whalen-Bridge. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr03wha}}
...of saying that Mailer is not (or in a just world ''would not be'') merely of interest to specialists.
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...of the publication of his “abominably written” first book, ''The Naked and the Dead''.}}
...lished in ''At Random'' ([[97.24a]]) and is reprinted here with permission of Sean Abbott.</ref>
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...le="font-size:22px;">{{BASEPAGENAME}}/</span>''An American Tragedy'' and ''The Executioner’s Song'': Receptions and Controversies}}
...’s ''An American Tragedy'' and Norman Mailer’s ''The Executioner’s Song''. The panel was moderated by [[Barry H. Leeds]].|url=https://prmlr.us/mr14love}}
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...responsible mechanization, and aggression while encouraging reflection and the will to positive change.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr02bro}}
...of events, and conversely placing in perspective the truly momentous acts of our time.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer''/</span>2. ''Barbary Shore''}}__NOTOC__{{Template:Structured
...Naked and the Dead'', ''Barbary Shore'' represents a step in the direction of an increasingly nonderivative art.
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 2, 2008/</span>A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels}}
...resent more sensation than substance? Is he a major philosophical novelist of our time or are his ideas often untenable? Mailer scholars Robert J. Begieb
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...ced by countless notes affixed to film cans, coded in the private language of like-minded artists.
...onversations over their recollections of working with Mailer during one of the most productive periods in his career, an experience that led to Jan and La
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...s of the United States.|note=An earlier version of this paper was given at the 2008 Norman Mailer Conference, October 16–18, in Provincetown, MA.|url=ht
...l to Eliot’s ''Four Quartets'' is sometimes said to be the “late” quartets of Beethoven, but Kenner (relying on information from Hodgart) maintains that
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