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In the Prologue to Norman Mailer: A Double Life (978-1-4391-5019-1, 2013, $40), biographer J. Michael Lennon writes that “Mailer’s desire for fame, and his distaste for it, never abated over his long career.
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Jun 24, 2014 · Mailer, who claimed to be the first American existentialist author, could be said to have turned his life into an experiment in proving that claim true. Mailer’s mercurial and ever-mutable identity is at the center of J. Michael Lennon’s biography, and Lennon does an admirable job of allowing Mailer’s various iterations of himself to ...
Jan 31, 2023 · A Mysterious Country is a carefully selected collection of Mailer’s most incisive—and sometimes remarkably prophetic—commentary on American democracy and what must be done to safeguard it.
Jun 25, 2024 · With never-before-seen archival material (including a legendary on-set row involving Mailer, Rip Torn, and a hammer), and interviews with ex-wives, children, and luminaries who knew him including Oliver Stone, John Waters, and James Wolcott.
Oct 11, 2013 · Through J. Michael Lennon's meticulous Norman Mailer: A Double Life, you get a sense of the writer's manic energy, his narcissism, and his fierce moral seriousness as an opponent of power....
Jan 31, 2023 · In the sharp and impassioned language of a political Cassandra and with the eye of a novelist and journalist, he explored the underlying psychological, social, and economic causes of the country’s fragile polity and offered urgent prescriptions for its reinvigoration.
Oct 17, 2013 · More significantly — and adding another 900 pages to the canon — comes J. Michael Lennon’s sweeping full-scale biography, “Norman Mailer: A Double Life.”
