Critical Essay by Frank Mcconnell
[One] of the many edges on which Mailer has always precariously balanced his career and reputation is the edge between fiction and what we like to call (forgetting h...
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In the following essay, Seib identifies elements of Homeric epic in The Armies of the Night, particularly Mailer's concern for the destiny of the United States, allusions to the supernatural, a...
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New York (dpa) - US author Norman Mailer has died, his editorial
assistant Dwayne Prickett confirmed to Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in
New York on Saturday.
T...
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His friends all tell similar stories: Norman Mailer at a dinner party, awards ceremony or afternoon gathering, hobbling on canes up or down a few steps or a flight of stairs, short of breath, as if...
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Within the past year, three of the most famous authors to emerge after World War II have died: Norman Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and William Styron. Their deaths all resulted in front-page stories, leng...
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Los Angeles (dpa) - Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage will star in
the first major studio film by Hany Abu-Assad, the acclaimed
Palestinian director of Paradise Now.
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New York (dpa) - US author Norman Mailer died of acute renal
failure at the age of 84 on Saturday, his editorial assistant Dwayne
Prickett confirmed to Deutsche Presse-Agent...
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Who was Mailer? He growled, boxed, inhabited the Earth. Breslin: 'People think he was a crazed creature—he wasn't.' MORE ... The subject was old age. Norman Mailer said there was a grace in a...
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Norman Mailer was a literary pugilist, attacking his subjects and opponents as writer, debater and cultural provocateur.A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, fighter, feuder, journalist and poet, Mailer...
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I’m beginning to feel that Norman Mailer might have made a strategic mistake in recent interviews plugging his new book on writing, The Spooky Art. A strategic mistake in conspicuously low-ba...
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Norman Mailer, the pugnacious prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executione...
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Norman Mailer, the pugnacious prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executione...
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