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(From 2007, this was one of his last public appearances! He was fiercely honest, refreshingly witty and strikingly intelligent.) The 20th Century on Trial: Norman Mailer Fora TV The New York Public Library presents The 20th Century on Trial with Norman Mailer. This portion of the event includes Norman Mailer in conversation with Andrew O'Hagan. To Listen to the Conversation
In the current Bookforum, Thomas Frank hashes out how our culture moved from Mailer's book on the '68 Democratic National Convention-- Miami and the Siege of Chicago, this year re-issued in a 40th anniversary edition--to, well, where we are now.According...
Je Banach, whose fiction has appeared in Esquire and is engaged in a collaborative fiction project with Jonathan Lethem, sent us these words on David Foster Wallace's suicide, which we share with you today. With Great Abandon: The Perils of...
It can't be too happy this year for the great man-- not only did his friendly competitor, Norman Mailer, pass away within the last 12 months, but one of his best friends, Paul Newman (also 83) died this very...
"Careful, Wally," she said. "It's a great metaphor, but it'll weight the book down. There's no bigger taboo than disgust..." My big fall project is the new, next-wave novel by Lawrence Shainberg, Crust, published by Two Dollar Radio and out...
Of all the extraordinary items in the selection from Norman Mailer’s correspondence served up in the Oct. 6 issue of The New Yorker , perhaps the most astonishing is the letter Mailer wrote to Don DeLillo in 1988, when Libra (Penguin, $15), Mr. DeLillo’s novel about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, had just been published. Mailer, who was 65 at the time, and writing to a younger, less famous...
I am reeling from the vast contrasts I have experienced in the past 10 days. Late last night I returned home from one of the most wrenching and emotionally intense experiences of my life. I slowly and gingerly took off my jacket and placed it on our bed, grabbed a glass of water, [...]
It’s inevitable as the years drag on that those of us of a certain age will see more and more of the heroes of our youths pass away. The past year or so has seen the deaths of Arthur C. Clarke, George McDonald Fraser, Tony Wilson, George Carlin, Richard Wright of Pink Floyd just yesterday (Syd [...]
Martin Schneider writes: Wow. This is very, very, very, very sad. Wallace was one of my very favorite writers, and I'm devastated that he's gone, of suicide, at the young age of 46. I value his essays and journalism as much as anything written since 1990 or so. The one about the cruise, the one about McCain, the one about Michael Joyce.... top marks, all, and so many others. His work wasn't for everyone,...
by va Norman Mailer once had a conversation with Gene McCarthy which he recounted in Miami and the Siege of Chicago. McCarthy had some things to say which seem appropriate today. "You have to start pigs running with a great...
John Batchelor, known to RBO/RW readers from both earlier articles and his Sunday night radio show (RBO posts each week’s program schedule), writes: Billy Ayers Still Doesn’t Get it Billy Ayers the unrepentant Weatherman terrorist from the Vietnam war era is back in the guise of the distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois—Bill Ayers, [...]
"Boredom at Its Boredest" by Michae (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
I'm reading Norman Mailer's virtuosic The Armies of the Night for the first time, and it is stunning how it reads like he's writing about our country at this very moment. This paragraph is especially brilliant: He came at last...
I wrote a post last night when it was pouring that was pretty good but I deleted it. This isn't a reconstruction but a reaction to what seem to be general feelings. In a quick look at non political blogs that talked about Sarah Palin people say not to judge ...
Being as it's Sunday and most visitors to this blog are not regular churchgoers, the following is offered in the hope of providing a little spiritual uplift. I was planning to review Hitch's review in the Atlantic of Norman Mailer's Miami and the Siege of Chicago , but I couldn't think of anything to say about it apart from that the subject is too conventional for me and that it is in season just now....
