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Sep 12, 2024 · As a man, Mailer has eclipsed his own books, ultimately becoming his own most enduring character. In the manly myth he crafted, deftly conjured with words and punctuation from an unsound ...
Jul 24, 2024 · The footage of Mailer in his dotage, sitting in an undershirt by the sea, presents a man struggling to the end to understand the contradictory forces within him.
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Dec 19, 2022 · In a new book, “Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer,” the British literary scholar and biographer Richard Bradford has produced an almost entirely negative portrait of a man whose life is ...
m. Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
Heroically brave and mad, prodigious in his industry and appetites, Norman Mailer was an altogether excessive figure. Since his death in 2007 there have been several biographies, but this...
Jul 17, 2024 · Two new books and a documentary about Norman Mailer argue the continuing relevance of Jewish men who tried to secure their place in postwar America. The title figure in Jeffrey Zimbalist’s ...
1 day ago · The man himself was anything BUT conventional. By his own description, Norman Mailer was a mess of contradictions; first and foremost, he was a really great writer. Super-intelligent (he entered Harvard at 16), Mailer was a soldier in World War Two, which became the subject of his enormously successful first novel The Naked and The Dead. The ...
