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6 days ago · Although Mailer died in 2007, he remains vividly alive in this entertaining documentary that may make you scream at the screen, laugh out loud—or both. How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer is in ...
1 day ago · July 24, 2024, 12:25 PM ET. Listen. 00:00 15:59. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. The contemporary brief against Norman Mailer is long and sordid. He was a ...
Jul 19, 2024 · One of the standout segments of the film is its exploration of Mailer’s friendship with the Beat poet and artist, Allen Ginsberg. The two men had a deep and abiding friendship, and their conversations and debates about art, literature, and politics are enlightening and entertaining.
Jul 16, 2024 · In Mailer’s case, however, the that they’re referring to could be any of the following things: his confrontational public statements; his misbehavior on talk shows; his ardent bad-boy meditations...
5 days ago · As a lover, fighter, rabble-rouser, and perhaps the last true American public intellectual, he seeks most of all to become a bolder, better human being and encourages us to do the same — to think adventurously, speak fearlessly, and care less about the response — or risk a doomed future.
Jun 28, 2024 · “How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer” hits on an ingenious structure that avoids hagiography even as it includes friends and family.
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Jun 28, 2024 · Inspired by Mailer’s comment that “It’s that nice mixture of love and anger that we need to come alive,” the director explores the writer’s constant battle against conformity, complacency, and dullness, a struggle that shaped his art and his life.
