Saturday, January 27, 2007

Norman Mailer

...this larger prognostication of his turns out to have been 80 percent brilliant. Mailer prophesied that Communism, based on its inbuilt inadequacies, was going to collapse. There was no reason to go to war against it. His analysis would loom today as totally brilliant if only he had added a 20 percent tip about what was meanwhile likely to happen to the unhappy people of Indochina during the interval between America’s withdrawal from the war and the Communists’ eventual withdrawal from Communist doctrine... --Paul Berman, Mailer’s Great American Meltdown, The New York Times, August 22, 2008


The possibilities for true diversity were dizzying: Mailer suggested that Harlem might declare a holiday for Malcolm X, while Staten Island honored John Birch. One neighborhood might require church attendance, while another mandated serial sex. --Bill Kauffman, Stormin’ Norman, Decentralist, The Regionalist column, First Principles, October 20, 2008

Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Dies at 84 by Charles McGrath, The New York Times, November 10, 2007 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Norman Mailer, a dissenting view by Roger Kimball, Roger's Rules, November 10, 2007 11:48 AM (via Arts & Letters Daily)

The Magic of Mailer: Seeing Hitler Through the Forest, by Michael Schumacher, review of The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer, Shepherd-Express, March 1, 2007

Portrait of the Monster as a Young Artist by J. M. Coetzee, review of The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, February 15, 2007

The Prisoner of Sex by Ruth Franklin, review of The Castle in the Forest: A Novel by Norman Mailer, The New Republic Online, February 15, 2007

Portrait of the Monster as a Young Artist by J. M. Coetzee, review of The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer, New York Review of Books, February 15, 2007

Literary lion not so sure about the big catch anymore, John Freeman interviews Norman Mailer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, January 28, 2007

Norman Mailer's Devil Has His Day by Volker Hage, review of The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer, Spiegel, January 26, 2007

Satan, Meet Norman by Philip Weiss, review of The Castle in the Forest, by Norman Mailer, New York Obserer, January 22, 2007

Who needs another book on Hitler? Even one by Mailer? by Carlin Romano, review of The Castle in the Forest, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 21, 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

Don Quixote at Eighty, review by John Leonard of The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing, by Norman Mailer, The New York Review of Books, March 13, 2003

A Foul-Weather Friend to Norman Mailer, Chapter Five of Ex-Friends (1999) by Norman Podhoretz, at Commentary

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