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- Of all the interviews in this book, this one needed the least editing. With Mailer '''Grobel''': You’ve said that you don’t consider yourself moral at all, but as a man who lives in an embattled relationship to morality. What do y56 KB (10,305 words) - 09:57, 8 July 2021
- ...d later we started bringing our three sons, seeing him nearly every summer all through the 70s and 80s, either in Maine or in Provincetown. Those visits f ...n talk shows; I used to tape things off the TV and the radio. I still have all those old tapes. I was assiduously collecting everything that he said and e102 KB (18,334 words) - 07:38, 6 July 2020
- ...the idealization of masculine aggression that remains so entrenched in our media and culture even today. {{quote|Murder, after all, has exhilaration within it . . . there is something manly about containing56 KB (8,907 words) - 08:20, 4 July 2020
- The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer/8. The Armies of the Night and Miami and the Siege of ChicagoIn all of Mailer’s work, his preoccupation with contemporary politics has been As his own narrator/protagonist, Mailer is free to present any perception or attitude without fictional disguise. And bec32 KB (5,517 words) - 12:07, 4 July 2020
- ...as always prided himself on being unpredictable, unsettling. This is after all a living, unruly body of work, virtually unclassifiable in its range and va ...ticipating later theorists, who drew attention to how preconceptions shape all ‘factual’ reportage, Mailer described David Riesman’s popular study '37 KB (6,301 words) - 08:33, 8 July 2021
- ...is more easily manipulated by the increasingly sophisticated political and media marketing techniques used by those who hold power today. This is why it is ...that purpose as Ellis is. But it is remarkable how much similar territory all three books cover as they awaken us to our democratic fundamentals in the o49 KB (7,812 words) - 16:54, 22 May 2022
- ...I spent the next several years pondering the implications of all of this. All the while I had Mailer’s phone number stuck in my wallet with the knowled The challenge I faced then was to bring this all together. With Mailer gone I know that I will never be able to ask him thos52 KB (8,284 words) - 15:36, 26 June 2021
- ...g surface of his cinematic reality which was finer by far than the work of all but the very best film artists. ...he, with characteristic modesty, ignorant until a few years ago of nearly all to do with film-making, and still technically more ignorant than the good m89 KB (16,254 words) - 17:37, 30 June 2021
- ...we take our pulse and decide that finally we’re enjoying ourselves, we’re free of her power, we’ll never suffer her depredations again, and then we turn ...s the “male panic” of the 1950s to a “tough guy masculinity” in which both media and government utilize a rhetoric of machismo and western clichés to discu50 KB (8,133 words) - 10:13, 11 October 2020
- ...very much in the stream of social consciousness which has been observed in all of Mailer’s earlier work. The fact that the hunting party comes from Texa ...seen unmeasurable electromagnetism and wave of all the psychic circuits of all the wild of Alaska, and he was only part of them, and part he was of gasoli49 KB (8,582 words) - 12:04, 4 July 2020
- ...ions are faced with considerable weakness and trepidation, and barely won. All of them are faced unwillingly. But toward the last, there is presented a gr ...lls, a growth against the design of my organs, that this was the moment it all began, this was the hour when the cells took their leap?{{sfn|Mailer|1965|p94 KB (16,514 words) - 06:45, 21 September 2020
- ...ng of various Egyptian gods and demons. I confess, I had read some but not all of it, yet out of some weird sense of loyalty, I couldn’t leave it there Of him as a ''director''—they knew nothing at all. I suppose, in these days when the worth of a director is gauged by how man66 KB (12,360 words) - 09:38, 8 July 2021
- ...istent presence of Kennedy in their writings tends to suggest is that, for all Mailer’s non-conformism, his oeuvre serves to ultimately uphold the defin ...over]], [[w:E. L. Doctorow|Doctorow]] and [[w:Don Delillo|Delillo]] below. All of these novels challenge the conventions of traditional literary realism a60 KB (9,837 words) - 09:58, 8 July 2021
- ...r himself sets the measure when he says, “For if I have one ambition above all others, it is to write a novel which Dostoyevsky and Marx; Joyce and Freud; ...to great novels but primary to life itself. That this needs to be said at all is grim testimony to the condition of the American novel and of literary cr105 KB (17,648 words) - 09:30, 8 July 2021
- ...t Generation, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Greenwich Village Bohemians, all superseded by the bi-coastal hipster of the 1940s-60s best exemplified by t ...ome home tired, unfulfilled, and unresponsive to their wives and children. All this time, of course, mother was a constant presence, so children experienc40 KB (6,260 words) - 07:35, 12 October 2020
- My own media-stoked imagination suggested some lurid elaborations on '''Wife-Stabber''' ...r Hawthorne “wildly” or “mildly” looked for the Great Carbuncle, but it is all suggestive enough to make one wonder whether Mailer moved to the Berkshires72 KB (12,589 words) - 07:58, 6 July 2020
- ..., of an everyday life so enthralled by the fantasy selves projected in the media … that it makes little sense to speak of sociopathology or a lone gunman. ...eLillo’s Oswald Lentricchia sees the birth of the postmodern individual, a media-created American, who truly exists only in the bright lights of the camera.105 KB (16,741 words) - 15:31, 27 June 2021
- ...successor volume to ''Works and Days''. Annotations have been provided for all items by Mailer, but not for most secondary items. Apology is made to those ...e American Vision.” Interview by Eric James Schroeder. In ''Vietnam, We’ve All Been There: Interviews with American Writers'', edited by Eric James Schroe63 KB (8,936 words) - 08:54, 8 July 2021
- ...en about Norman Mailer. The scholarship within the books is invaluable and all four of these books—complete with errors, distortions, and idiosyncrasies ...ominy on the biographical subject. In Norman Mailer’s case, biography does all of these and more.70 KB (11,273 words) - 17:43, 2 July 2021
- ...distraction. To say that art has a final purpose is to say that all of it, all of life’s parts, actually matter. This fragment of a thought takes us to ...dfly always in the moral right? That isn’t really a necessary condition at all, although one senses that Mailer very much wanted to be identified with the89 KB (13,947 words) - 15:06, 5 July 2021