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- ...topic for today—Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and he’s currently working on a book that I find fascinating even in its inception: Norman Mailer and Jack Henry ...r. This is, again, the American Tragedy instead of the American Dream. The book came out in 1925, the same year as ''The Great Gatsby'', which also critici41 KB (7,274 words) - 07:54, 6 July 2020
- ...es a delegated meaning.”{{sfn|Feidelson|1983|p=79}} Richard Poirier in his book on Mailer states it best, “[Mailer] is dependent on a past which is essen ...d to this character for his last novel.) The Devil uses every trick in the book from the physical to the spiritual, from hallucinations to lying to undermi24 KB (3,957 words) - 09:52, 8 July 2021
- {{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 10, 2016/</span>Remembering Barry Leeds}} ...made many presentations of his own, and he was a major contributor to ''{{MR}}''.50 KB (9,361 words) - 08:32, 4 July 2020
- ...film happened in ad hoc fashion: a PBS television interview about his new book ''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' (which I absolutely adored), an aborted attempt ...after page of dialogue. I don’t remember one inaccurate line in the whole book! I know he didn’t take a note. How did he manage that? It’s miraculous.15 KB (2,646 words) - 17:58, 7 July 2020
- ...a caged one in the local zoo, but puts the self-deprecating story into the book nonetheless. Thus, it is again shown that “Mailer was a lifelong autodida ...was biographical, yes, but Mailer was decidedly ''not'' a presence in the book, which was masterfully written largely in third person limited to convey th19 KB (3,254 words) - 07:40, 6 July 2020
- {{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 10, 2016/</span>Mailer’s Letters: A Colloquy at the Strand Books ...those cities around the country where Mailer himself researched or wrote a book. And we’ve started to do that. Brooklyn Heights was, you know, very close43 KB (7,843 words) - 08:34, 4 July 2020
- ...profiles, a lot of it spontaneous, candid, and playful. His 1963 ''Paris Review'' interview with Steve Marcus is still crucial for understanding how he bec ...ods. The first book that I did with Mailer grew out of his archive, a 1982 book called46 KB (8,093 words) - 18:08, 1 March 2021
- {{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 10, 2016/</span>“Don’t Go Away Feeling Unequal”: “The Time ...maine Greer, where Joan Didion or Jill Johnstone (does anyone remember her book of dance criticism ''cum'' memoir, ''Marmalade Me''?) or someone who clearl21 KB (3,329 words) - 08:35, 4 July 2020
- ...f Michigan, April 1984. It was first published in the ''Michigan Quarterly Review'', vol. 24 (Summer 1985). It was later reprinted in ''Speaking of Writing: ...hat whenever you finish a book” and he replied, “Well, whenever I finish a book I do say it and it is always true and it gets more true and this last one l30 KB (5,754 words) - 07:39, 6 June 2021
- {{quote|The review in ''Time'' [of ''Deaths for the Ladies''] put iron into my heart again, an Another case in point is ''King of the Hill'', a modest little book originally published as a long article in ''Life'' magazine ~(with photogra28 KB (4,578 words) - 09:53, 8 July 2021
- The Mailer Review/Volume 10, 2016/The Curious Story of Norman Mailer’s Engagement with Short Fiction{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 10, 2016/</span>The Curious Story of Norman Mailer’s Engagement ...n the College Classroom |url=https://prmlr.us/mr14brau |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=325–332 |access-date= |ref=harv }}21 KB (3,623 words) - 09:50, 18 September 2021
- ...with Vietnam, but the significance of the title is fairly obvious, as the book jacket hastens to point out: ...htening account of a hunting expedition in Alaska’s Brooks Mountain Range, Mr. Mailer is drawing a dread parallel? Or that in the behavior of a few hunte49 KB (8,582 words) - 12:04, 4 July 2020
- ...ng at characteristically breakneck speed, responded with a ground-breaking book-length report, ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'' (1968). ...tching to publishers an ambitious but ultimately doomed project to write a book about the death of the American Dream. Deciding that presidential politics33 KB (4,929 words) - 07:01, 15 March 2021
- ...iew, “Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer,” ''Partisan Review'' 42, No. 2 (1975), 197–214, also collected in ''Conversations with Norma ...eavyweights. During the first half of the year he also assembled his sixth book, ''[[The Presidential Papers]]'', a collection that was directed rhetorical28 KB (4,564 words) - 16:11, 28 May 2020
- ...still in the novel, but I cut away most of them in the eighth draft of the book after I admitted that my intrusions had become intrusive. Yet creative enha ...e they actually published my novel in 1968, and he went off to write ''The Book of Daniel''. But I forgave him his flight, for he was the man who first sai34 KB (6,066 words) - 11:41, 13 July 2021
- {{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 5, 2011/Tributes to Norris Church Mailer/</span>Remembering Norris ...and he signed books and magazines. He said he has changed the title of his book with his son, John Buffalo, from ''Hodge-Podge'' to ''[[The Big Empty]]''.29 KB (5,361 words) - 09:48, 5 July 2020
- ...''Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'' (Basic Books, 1979). His book won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the same year that Nor .... Lawrence O’Gorman’s article describes some of the developments.}} In his book, Mathematics, the Science of Patterns, Keith Devlin begins with these words51 KB (8,331 words) - 09:53, 23 June 2021
- ...about Gilmore, the Utah multiple murderer, is an American classic. It is a book so beautiful and wise that its light somehow illuminates the rest of his wo ...The Executioner’s Song'' it became impossible to deny his stature. In this book, he made all of us, regardless of class or origin, see tragedy in the life24 KB (4,096 words) - 09:05, 4 July 2021
- ...logy is made to those whose essays or monographs about and interviews with Mr. Mailer have escaped attention. {{cite book |last=Beidler |first=Philip D. |date=1982 |title=American Literature and th63 KB (8,936 words) - 08:54, 8 July 2021
- ...horetz points out that “it is on the sexual affairs of his characters that Mr. Mailer concentrates in ''The Deer Park''.”{{sfn|Lucid|1971|p=78}} ...drinks for Lulu and the guests.”{{sfn|Radford|1975|p=124}} He wants to be Mr. Sergius rather than49 KB (8,773 words) - 10:15, 3 March 2021