Norman Mailer Society/Podcast

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Begun in 2015, the Norman Mailer Society Podcast is the brainchild of host and creator Justin Bozung. It features audio, interviews, commentary, discussions, and other rare content by Norman Mailer and the people who knew him best. This archive . . .

# Date Title Description Archive Listen
01 2015-02-25 Podcast Premiere: J. Michael Lennon In this inaugural episode of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast, host Justin Bozung speaks with Norman Mailer’s archivist and official biographer / NMS Society President J. Michael Lennon about his book The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, Mailer’s ’60s ambitions, The Deer Park, Picasso, and The Naked and the Dead. Archive MP3
02 2015-03-18 Paul Krassner Justin Bozung talks with ’60s iconoclast, journalist, author, and comedian Paul Krassner about his friendship with Norman Mailer as documented in Krassner’s memoir Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counterculture [Touchstone, 1994]. This episodes features an audio clip of Mailer’s 1965 speech at the Berkeley Vietnam Teach-In. Archive MP3
03 2015-03-30 Mailer on Picasso This episode showcases a feature-length, never-aired in the United States interview with Norman Mailer on Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography [Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995]. The interview was conducted in Provincetown for the BBC television series Southbank. Archive MP3
04 2015-04-16 Wings Hauser Justin talks with Writer/Director/Actor Wings Hauser about working with Norman Mailer via his portrayal of “Alvin Luther Regency” in Norman Mailer’s film adaptation of his 1984 novel, Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Archive MP3
05 2015-05-01 Mailer Reads Mailer This episode showcases the full audio of Norman Mailer’s 1962/63 Prestige LP Mailer Reads Mailer. With little known today about the origins of the Mailer’s recording, it is introduced via a brief background by Mailer’s official biographer, archivist/NM Society President, J. Michael Lennon. Archive MP3
06 2015-05-15 Gerald Lucas Justin talks with Jerry Lucas about the Project Mailer, an online portal which will be soon be coming to fruition with the aim of providing Norman Mailer’s vast body of work accessibility in the digital realm. Lucas is a Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, an Executive Board member of the Norman Mailer Society, and the Deputy Editor of The Mailer Review. Archive MP3
07 2015-06-01 Maggie McKinley Justin talks with Maggie McKinley of Harper College. McKinley is a board member of the Mailer Society and in this episode she discusses Mailer’s The Prisoner of Sex as well as her own Mailer book project Understanding Norman Mailer which is slated for release in late 2016. Archive MP3
08 2015-06-15 Iowa Writers Symposium, 1959 This episode features a selection of rare audio associated with Norman Mailer. From a writer’s symposium which occurred at the University of Iowa in 1959, Norman Mailer discusses the writer’s role in the culture of the late ’50s with Ralph Ellison and Dwight Macdonald. Archive MP3