Norman Mailer News

Apparently we're now at the stage in the James Frey career trajectory where the once-disgraced writer can stop pretending he's sorry for lying in his memoir and on Oprah, because he's a bestselling author again ...

Weekend Edition Saturday , August 2, 2008 Scott Simon talks David Ebershoff about his new novel, The 19th Wife .

New York Review Books: 224 pp., $14.95 paper IN 1968 Norman Mailer covered the political conventions for Harper's. These were the glory days of literary journalism, when Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, Truman ...

Nobel Prize-wining author V.S. Naipaul in a 1981 file photo. MEMOIR Knopf Canada 189 pp., $29.95 As far as literary feuds go, it isn't Morley Callaghan punching out Ernest Hemingway, or Norman Mailer ...

Portfolio's long profile of new Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth is a pretty good read.

Portfolio's long profile of new Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth is a pretty good read.

A couple years ago Norman Mailer and I were talking about character and Democratic troubles with men.

Gore Vidal is one of America's most pugnacious, intelligent and politically engaged essayists, but until now, the only book of his essays readily available was 'United States,' a 1,000-page compendium the size ...

I read once that during the 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy met Norman Mailer, already a lion of American letters.

A teacher, writer and psychotherapist, Mathias B. Freese is the author of two books, The i Tetralogy and Down to a Sunless Sea .

FISHTRAP HOLLOW, Miss. -- Every time I fill up the gas tank lately, I think of Norman Mailer.

A teaser: "At a cocktail party, a bottle of lousy champagne is uncorked. You take a swig, grimace, and say, 'Send this swill back to France where David Sedaris is undoubtedly enjoying a baguette.' " I'm not ...

Every time I fill up the gas tank lately, I think of Norman Mailer walking the streets of Plains, Ga., looking around, exploring, same as I on a day not long after Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination.

Colony on the Cape The late Norman Mailer wrote many of his major works in Provincetown.

Let's take a ride in the Wayback Machine to the 1970s, a fantasy time where people wore moods rings, collected pet rocks, and paid out 62 cents a gallon at the OPEC-regulated gas pumps.

Last week, author and bajillionaire J.K. Rowling issued the commencement address at Harvard, the university most famous for purchasing sexy love letters between Norman Mailer and Carole Mallory.

Michael Lau is a huge favourite of mine and CSBOOTH15, titled 'Gardener Still' is something to really look forward to.

FD: a magazine producing between thirty and forty million [dollars, on profit] in a year on its own.

Author James Frey listens at a book signing in New York May 14, for his novel Bright Shiny Morning.

By chance, I happened to chat with Peter Matthiessen about 'Shadow Country,' his stunning new rendering of the Southwest Florida-set Watson trilogy, the day after he attended the memorial service for Norman ...