...hed in ''Esquire'', December 1967, under the title “Some Dirt in the Talk: A Candid History of an Existential Movie Called ''Wild 90''.” Reprinted wit
...ted, ends as a lackluster and lumbering waltz. Not that the party had been a failure while it was being filmed. The tension of the party was memorable i
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...:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 2, 2008/</span>A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels}}
...new consciousness or do they present more sensation than substance? Is he a major philosophical novelist of our time or are his ideas often untenable?
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...IRECT [[The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Tributes to Norman Mailer/This Is a Town Worth Digging In and Fighting For]]
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{{Byline|last=Sipiora|first=Phillip|abstract=Tom Luddy, a film producer and executive for five decades, shares his experiences as exe
...n more of a culture hero. I brought him to the Berkeley Campus in 1967 for a then-complete retrospective, and assisted him on his abortive project with
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:Introduction to ''Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture''}}
...f>From {{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Abbie |date=1980 |title=Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture |url= |location=New York |publisher=Perigee |page= |is
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...borations on '''Wife-Stabber''' and '''Sudden Violence''': a fistfight and a fanciful headline:
...s his more-or-less familiar words, by giving their provocation and context a year ago.
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...iler Review/Volume 1, 2007/The Untold Story Behind The Executioner’s Song: A Conversation with Lawrence Schiller]]
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...re the original story on the nature of successful film treatments would be a worthy addition to the reading lists for film-writing courses. —[[J. Mich
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...style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 5, 2011/</span>From ''A Ticket to the Circus''}}
...get together once in a while to have a glass of wine (Russellville was in a dry county, so drinking wine was totally avant-garde — we had to driv
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{{DISPLAYTITLE:A Fear of Dying: Norman Mailer's ''An American Dream''}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Psalm for Norman Mailer,A}}
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..., Mailer could be the once-and-future journalist, erudite, hard-working to a fault, dazzling with invention, but restrained by the metes and bounds of r
...d to twist and turn us unproductively inward while in the background arose a damnable Asian war that left us mocking the principles, self-reliance and p
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...and riveting essay entitled “Death,” originally titled “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” one of his “Big Bite” columns for ''Esquire''. Not only does
..., Fear, Philosophy,” Mailer has found in this arena of ritualized violence a rich source of perception about the human condition. In fact, in his 1993 e
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{{Byline|last=Middlebrook|first=Jonathan|abstract=A reconsideration of [[Norman Mailer]] and his work against the backdrop of M
{{cquote|I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit.|author
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...urselves when we get into extreme situations, ‘Am I in a farce? Or am I in a tragedy? Is this funny, or is this desperate?{{' "}}
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...of the intellectual consequence—he would have to set out to be a genius or a saint.)
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..., including Mailer’s statement on his refusal to get into a shelter during a New York City air raid drill.
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...but immediately ceded the dispensing of life and the life energies over to a Devil. That is the total contradiction on which {{LJ:S}} rests, but it is s
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What’s in a name. The Burglar{{LJ:Bergler}} decided to become the cop, but a German cop, Herr High Inspector.
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...e, and float bond deals for a new bank, when all you have is the brains of a college sophomore who can’t even rob the fraternity party fund.”
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...a full stomach after supper. I wrote it with a style about as sprightly as a German grammar teacher, and this kills me because there was do much I wante
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...ged into a thing. To ferret is to devote one’s life energies to uncovering a tiny buried thing.
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...understood the United States and the Soviet Union on a local level. He was a poor worker in both countries and how many people can say that?”
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...t probably can do no more than ease him from an intolerable existence into a cloudy nothingness. That is my great adventure with Lipton’s. I will jour
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...''This Is the Beat Generation''. His new book, ''Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel'', will be published in the US in 2022.
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...ee Emerita. Denise has also written a family memoir ''Holy Unholy'' and as a board member of ''Provincetown ARTS'' she writes book reviews for the magaz
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..., a woman who can talk to all of you, the hell with it, let’s cease having a dialogue altogether.’” See [[91.18]].
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{{start|Peter Levenda}} is a writer on esoterica and politics, whose work Unholy Alliance
...er. This foreword was reproduced in Mailer’s ''A Spooky Art''. He has an M.A. in Religious Studies and Asian Studies from Florida International Universi
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...work at least 200 days a year, maybe 250. I write about five or six pages a day.”
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...ets furious these days when I talk about bisexuality. Why don’t you become a homosexual, she flares at me, you want to anyway. The funny thing is that I
...ctive pronunciation which is why so many illiterate people have a bitch of a time pronouncing that seemingly simple word.)
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...t [[w:Gary Gilmore (criminal)|Gary Gilmore]], the executed murderer. “It’s a new angle,” he said.
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...rationalist says: We can only trust objective data, for the subjective is a mal-proportioned exaggeration of the essential material phenomena.
...erely frozen theories, agglomerated habits of ideas which are mistaken for a Reality which may not even be Material.
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...s debut, which he said was “the closest a middle-aged man can get to being a bullfighter.”
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My birthday today. Let’s give myself a present of a nice fat installment. My weekend will have bearing on this, but I have many
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