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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.
- The Executioner’s Song—An immense panoramic nonfiction novel with over 300 characters that recreates the last nine months of Utah murderer Gary Gilmore.
- The Armies of the Night—Describing himself in the third person, Mailer draws on the techniques of the novelist, the journalist, and the historian to depict a divided nation.
- An American Dream—Written month by month for serial publication in Esquire, this dread-soaked 1965 novel about a psychology professor who murders his high society wife shows Mailer at the height of his metaphoric power.
- Advertisements for Myself—This 1959 miscellany contains samples of all Mailer’s earlier work stretching back to short stories written in college, as well as his endlessly reprinted essay about hipsters living in the New York demimonde, “The White Negro.”
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.
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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.”
