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| 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. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-8 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-8/nms-podcast-8.mp3 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. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-8 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-8/nms-podcast-8.mp3 MP3]
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| 09 || 2015-07-01 || Robert Solotaroff || Justin speaks with scholar Robert Solotaroff about his 1974 examination of Norman Mailer, ''Down Mailer’s Way'', a significant contribution to Mailer Studies. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-9 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-9/nms-podcast-9.mp3 MP3]
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| 10 || 2015-07-15 || Democracy ’68 (Part 1) || rowspan=2 | In this two-part episode, Norman Mailer is joined on stage in New York City by Herbert Marcuse and Arthur Schlesinger to discuss democracy in America as well as the then recent Columbia University student uprisings. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-10 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-10/nms-podcast-10.mp3 MP3]
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| 11 || 2015-07-15 || Democracy ’68 (Part 2) || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-11 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-11/nms-podcast-11.mp3 MP3]
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| 12 || 2015-08-01 || Studs Turkel & Norman Mailer || Originally broadcast on January 9th, 1971, this episode presents a 45-minute conversation between WFKW-Chicago radio host Studs Turkel and Norman Mailer. It features Mailer speaking candidly with Turkel about his recently published book ''Of A Fire On The Moon'' as well as God, the Devil, and death. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-12 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-12/nms-podcast-12.mp3 MP3]
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| 13 || 2015-08-15 || Kevin Schultz || Justin chats with Kevin Schultz, author of ''Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties'', about Mailer and Buckley as metaphors for the turbulent 1960’s, Buckley’s views on civil rights, as well as the author’s own introduction to Mailer’s work itself. Bonus: Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley discuss Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1980 novel ''The Executioner's Song''. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-13 Archive] || [https://archive.org/compress/nms-podcast-13/formats=VBR%20MP3&file=/nms-podcast-13.zip ZIP]
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| 14 || 2015-09-01 || Lawrence Schiller || Justin speaks with author/filmmaker Lawrence Schiller under very unusual circumstances about his collaboration with Norman Mailer on ''The Executioner’s Song'' book and film. Bonus: Read Norman Mailer’s second draft (dated 4/1981) of his screenplay for ''[https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-14/exsong-screenplay-1981.pdf The Executioner’s Song]''. The screenplay features many scenes not included in later drafts or in the final film as aired on NBC television in early November of 1982. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-14 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-14/nms-podcast-14.mp3 MP3]
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| 15 || 2015-09-15 || Norman Mailer Interview (1970) || In this episode: a never-before-published interview with Norman Mailer from April of 1970 in London, England. This interview, part of Justin’s book-in-progress, ''Norman Mailer: Film Is Like Death'' finds Mailer very exhausted and at times, oddly, at a loss for words as he discusses his upcoming film ''Maidstone'' (1971). || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-15 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-15/nms-podcast-15.mp3 MP3]
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| 16 || 2015-09-29 || Norman Mailer on Existentialism || “Norman Mailer on Existentialism” was recorded in Chicago on May 11th, 1963. This 30-minute extract, thought to be the only surviving artifact of Mailer’s lecture from Chicago of that year, was part of a longer evening that included a Q&A session between Mailer and students from the University of Chicago. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-16 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-16/nms-podcast-16.mp3 MP3]
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| 17 || 2015-10-15 || ''The Bullfight'' || Featuring Norman Mailer reading his essay on bull fighting, “The Crazy One,” which was also published in ''Playboy''. ''The Bullfight'' LP also features a hodge-podge of Spanish music and a reading of poetry by Federico García Lorca which Mailer and his daughter Susan translated from Spanish. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-17 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-17/nms-podcast-17.mp3 MP3]
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| 18 || 2015-10-30 || Mailer Attic || Chicago 8 conspiracy trial testimony. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-18 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-18/nms-podcast-18.mp3 MP3]
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| 19 || 2015-11-16 || ''Ancient Evenings'' || This episode features two recordings of Norman Mailer reading and discussing his 1983 novel ''Ancient Evenings''. This audio was generously donated to the Mailer Podcast Project by Mailer Archivist / Mailer Society President J. Michael Lennon. Lennon introduces the recording in this double-length episode.  || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-19 Archive] || [https://archive.org/compress/nms-podcast-19-1/formats=VBR%20MP3&file=/nms-podcast-19-1.zip ZIP]
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| 20 || 2015-12-01 || ''Ancient Evenings'' Interview || ''Ancient Evenings'' month continues with a rare and lengthy discussion about the Egyptian novel between Norman Mailer and U.K. journalist Melvyn Bragg from 1983. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-20 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-20/nms-podcast-20.mp3 MP3]
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| 21 || 2015-12-15 || Mailer at Wilkes || In this episode: Norman Mailer’s 1992 visit to Wilkes University, introduced by J. Michael Lennon. This recording was generously donated to the Mailer Podcast Project by Mailer Archivist / Mailer Society President J. Michael Lennon. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-21 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-21/nms-podcast-21.mp3 MP3]
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| 22 || 2015-12-30 || Mailer Retrospective || In the final episode of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast for 2015, Justin presents a retrospective look at the life and works of Norman Mailer in Mailer’s own words.  || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-22 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-22/nms-podcast-22.mp3 MP3]
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| 23 || 2016-02-15 || Mailer / Leeds 1987 || In this return of the NMS Podcast in 2016, Justin pays tribute to Mailer scholar and one of the co-founders of the Mailer Society, Barry Leeds, who passed away in 2015. Via archival audio, Mailer and Leeds discuss a variety of topics in the mid 80s such as: Ernest Hemingway, Gary Gilmore, Joan Didion, Harry Crews, film-making, antibiotics, and the AIDS crisis. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-23 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-23/nms-podcast-23.mp3 MP3]
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| 24 || 2016-03-07 || Mailer & The Unconscious Absurdist || Playwright Timothy Nolan stops by the NMS Podcast this week to discuss Mailer and writing from the unconscious as presented in Mailer’s 2004 book ''The Spooky Art''. Additionally, Justin and Nolan discuss the premise that Mailer may or may not have been influenced by the theater work of Samuel Beckett during his writing years of 1965-1967, which produced polarizing works like: ''Wild 90'' and ''The Deer Park: A Play''. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-24 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-24/nms-podcast-24.mp3 MP3]
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Revision as of 07:50, 29 July 2019

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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
09 2015-07-01 Robert Solotaroff Justin speaks with scholar Robert Solotaroff about his 1974 examination of Norman Mailer, Down Mailer’s Way, a significant contribution to Mailer Studies. Archive MP3
10 2015-07-15 Democracy ’68 (Part 1) In this two-part episode, Norman Mailer is joined on stage in New York City by Herbert Marcuse and Arthur Schlesinger to discuss democracy in America as well as the then recent Columbia University student uprisings. Archive MP3
11 2015-07-15 Democracy ’68 (Part 2) Archive MP3
12 2015-08-01 Studs Turkel & Norman Mailer Originally broadcast on January 9th, 1971, this episode presents a 45-minute conversation between WFKW-Chicago radio host Studs Turkel and Norman Mailer. It features Mailer speaking candidly with Turkel about his recently published book Of A Fire On The Moon as well as God, the Devil, and death. Archive MP3
13 2015-08-15 Kevin Schultz Justin chats with Kevin Schultz, author of Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties, about Mailer and Buckley as metaphors for the turbulent 1960’s, Buckley’s views on civil rights, as well as the author’s own introduction to Mailer’s work itself. Bonus: Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley discuss Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1980 novel The Executioner's Song. Archive ZIP
14 2015-09-01 Lawrence Schiller Justin speaks with author/filmmaker Lawrence Schiller under very unusual circumstances about his collaboration with Norman Mailer on The Executioner’s Song book and film. Bonus: Read Norman Mailer’s second draft (dated 4/1981) of his screenplay for The Executioner’s Song. The screenplay features many scenes not included in later drafts or in the final film as aired on NBC television in early November of 1982. Archive MP3
15 2015-09-15 Norman Mailer Interview (1970) In this episode: a never-before-published interview with Norman Mailer from April of 1970 in London, England. This interview, part of Justin’s book-in-progress, Norman Mailer: Film Is Like Death finds Mailer very exhausted and at times, oddly, at a loss for words as he discusses his upcoming film Maidstone (1971). Archive MP3
16 2015-09-29 Norman Mailer on Existentialism “Norman Mailer on Existentialism” was recorded in Chicago on May 11th, 1963. This 30-minute extract, thought to be the only surviving artifact of Mailer’s lecture from Chicago of that year, was part of a longer evening that included a Q&A session between Mailer and students from the University of Chicago. Archive MP3
17 2015-10-15 The Bullfight Featuring Norman Mailer reading his essay on bull fighting, “The Crazy One,” which was also published in Playboy. The Bullfight LP also features a hodge-podge of Spanish music and a reading of poetry by Federico García Lorca which Mailer and his daughter Susan translated from Spanish. Archive MP3
18 2015-10-30 Mailer Attic Chicago 8 conspiracy trial testimony. Archive MP3
19 2015-11-16 Ancient Evenings This episode features two recordings of Norman Mailer reading and discussing his 1983 novel Ancient Evenings. This audio was generously donated to the Mailer Podcast Project by Mailer Archivist / Mailer Society President J. Michael Lennon. Lennon introduces the recording in this double-length episode. Archive ZIP
20 2015-12-01 Ancient Evenings Interview Ancient Evenings month continues with a rare and lengthy discussion about the Egyptian novel between Norman Mailer and U.K. journalist Melvyn Bragg from 1983. Archive MP3
21 2015-12-15 Mailer at Wilkes In this episode: Norman Mailer’s 1992 visit to Wilkes University, introduced by J. Michael Lennon. This recording was generously donated to the Mailer Podcast Project by Mailer Archivist / Mailer Society President J. Michael Lennon. Archive MP3
22 2015-12-30 Mailer Retrospective In the final episode of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast for 2015, Justin presents a retrospective look at the life and works of Norman Mailer in Mailer’s own words. Archive MP3
23 2016-02-15 Mailer / Leeds 1987 In this return of the NMS Podcast in 2016, Justin pays tribute to Mailer scholar and one of the co-founders of the Mailer Society, Barry Leeds, who passed away in 2015. Via archival audio, Mailer and Leeds discuss a variety of topics in the mid 80s such as: Ernest Hemingway, Gary Gilmore, Joan Didion, Harry Crews, film-making, antibiotics, and the AIDS crisis. Archive MP3
24 2016-03-07 Mailer & The Unconscious Absurdist Playwright Timothy Nolan stops by the NMS Podcast this week to discuss Mailer and writing from the unconscious as presented in Mailer’s 2004 book The Spooky Art. Additionally, Justin and Nolan discuss the premise that Mailer may or may not have been influenced by the theater work of Samuel Beckett during his writing years of 1965-1967, which produced polarizing works like: Wild 90 and The Deer Park: A Play. Archive MP3