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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]
| 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]
| 24 || 2016-03-07 || Playwright Timothy Nolan || 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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| 25 || 2016-03-30 || Mailer v. Jones || In this episode, Mailer discusses with author Leroi Jones and television host David Susskind the state of racial divide in the mid 1960s. Mailer and Jones consider the Watts Riot, the right/wrong of blacks in Vietnam, and the cancers of an absurd time. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-25 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-25/nms-podcast-25.mp3 MP3]
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| 26 || 2016-04-15 || Mailer Reads ''The Naked and the Dead'' || In this episode, Mailer reads excerpts from ''The Naked and the Dead''. This recording was first released in 1983 via the New York-based record label Cademon, and features Mailer acting the various roles. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-26 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-26/nms-podcast-26.mp3 MP3]
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| 27 || 2016-05-01 || Mailer on ''An American Dream'' || This week's episode features a recently unearthed interview with Norman Mailer from late April / early June 1965 about a year after the serialization of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire''. Mailer discusses early character ideas and the point when he realized that a murder had to take place. He discusses the existential aspects of the novel, and of sex and murder as the last great frontier in need of conquering in America. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-27 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-27/nms-podcast-27.mp3 MP3]
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| 28–37 || 2016-07-15; 2016-08-01 || Death Is A Celebration: An Audio Documentary about ''Tough Guys Don't Dance'' || In this 10-hour re-broadcast, Justin, alongside his co-host Aaron Graham, offer up a exhaustive scene-by-scene examination of Norman Mailer’s 1987 film ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance''. In addition to exploring several of the key themes in both Mailer’s film and 1984 novel of the same name, this detailed audio essay on Mailer’s aesthetic approach to cinema, Reaganism, hedonism, and existential dread also features commentaries by Mailer Archivist/Biographer J. Michael Lennon and Mailer’s son John Buffalo Mailer. Additionally, further insights in this special are provided by ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' film actors: Frances Fisher, Stephan Morrow, John Synder, John Bedford-Lloyd, Wings Hauser, and several of the crew members that worked under Mailer to produce this ever-polarizing work of cinematic art that blends Shakespeare with Film Noir and The Theatre of the Absurd on the big screen. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-28 Archive] || [https://archive.org/compress/nms-podcast-28/formats=VBR%20MP3&file=/nms-podcast-28.zip ZIP]
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| 38 || 2016-08-15 || ''TGDD'' Press Conference || In this final look back at Norman Mailer's 1987 polarizing film ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'', this episode is a rarely-heard recording of the Mailer’s 1987 Cannes Film Festival Press Conference. Mailer encapsulates all of his views on cinema relating them to his own film. Alongside him are actress Deborah Sandlund, ''TGDD'' Producer Tom Luddy, and Cannon Films Exec Menahem Golan. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-38 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-38/nms-podcast-38.mp3 MP3]
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| 39 || 2016-08-30 || Mailer for Mayor || In this special episode, Justin presents a never before heard interview with Norman Mailer. Mailer sits down with Howard Smith from the ''Village Voice'' and his mayoral running mate Jimmy Breslin on the eve of their announcement to run in New York, to discuss with Smith their notion of the 51st State. || [https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-39 Archive] || [https://archive.org/download/nms-podcast-39/nms-podcast-39.mp3 MP3]
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