Norman Mailer
The Lion in Winter: Five Snapshots
1. St. Michael’s Academy, North Ayrshire, Scotland, 1983
My English teacher, Mr. Campbell, said he’d never read anything by Norman Mailer. Mr. read more »
Norman Mailer, 84, Is Dead
Two-time Pulitzer-Prize winning author Norman Mailer is dead at 84. He died early this morning at Mount Sinai Hospital of acute renal failure, his family told The New York Times. The prolific writer behind The Naked and the Dead, Armies of the Night, and Executioner's Song had a long and storied career, founding the Village Voice and constantly remaining at the center of American letters. read more »
Report: Norman Mailer in Critical Care at Mount Sinai, Recovering From Surgery (UPDATE)
Norman Mailer was checked into Mount Sinai Hospital’s critical care unit yesterday with severe respiratory problems, The Post reported this morning. His ex-wife Carol Mailer told The Post that Mr. Mailer’s lung collapsed, and that although surgeons successfully removed the scar tissue, the 84-year-old writer is "not in very good shape."
Although an in-law told The Post that "everything's fine" and that "he's recovering," his children are reportedly "holding daily vigils at his bedside."
According to Jynne Martin, Mr. Mailer's publicist at Random House, the Post story exaggerated the urgency of the situation. "Contrary to the sensationalized NY Post report, Norman is recovering from surgery, and is doing well," Ms. Martin wrote in an e-mail.
This is the second time the New York literary icon has been hospitalized since Labor Day weekend. Over the course of the last month, he has canceled several public appearances for health reasons, including one at the New Yorker Festival and one at the 92nd Street Y.
Mr. Mailer's new book, On God, which takes the form of an extended dialogue with his longtime literary executor Michael Lennon, was published yesterday by Random House. read more »
Mailer Was the Rage
Satan, Meet Norman
![Mailer's Morality: "Even the writer who can be a perfect scamp ... there is a moral under that."](http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article-teaser/files/012207_article_cover.jpg "Mailer's Morality: "Even the writer who can be a perfect scamp ... there is a moral under that."")
Kipnis and Perel: A Literary Submission
Never Mind the Bollocks--Here Is Walt and Mearsheimer!
One cool thing about this event is you can play the West End in London or the Arena Stage in Washington forever, but nothing really matters till you come to New York. That's the function of a cultural capital. New York has suppressed these ideas for a long time, but thanks to the London Review of Books, it's taking them on tonight, as it should. As it provided the venue for Mailer and Greer, when they wrestled over the power of women. read more »
The big question this time around is simple: Can we talk about the political power of Jews? I'm firmly in the yes camp.
Hugh McCracken, Ace Ombudsman
Hugh McCracken, Ace Ombudsman
New York Is Reborn
Countdown to Bliss
Engaged: April 12, 2003 read more »
One Generation, Two Stories: On Campus and In Country
Pataki's Job Program: $220,000 for a Pal
Mailer Was the Rage
Ernie Anastos: 'Channel 2 Is Good' … Norman Mailer Does Street Time
Norman Mailer to CBS: You Blew It! … 'I Feel Lucky,' Says Kimes' Hostage
Dick Cavett Moonwalks From Past With Rocky Horror Broadway Gig
Updike's Gertrude and Claudius: It's His Valentine to Eve
It's Tom Wolfe Versus the 'Three Stooges'
Stormin' Norman Mailer Says He's Soured on Giuliani … Mailer: A New Biography Captures This Vexing Creature
Sexy Life Story, Limply Told: Gore Vidal, Angel and Monster
Andy Warhol's Brillo Box in Big Whitney Farce
Tales of Serial Antipathy: New York Eggheads Play Rough
Problem With Monogamy? It's So Incredibly Dull
Women Demand Pleasure, So Men Invent Stiff Pill
Glowing, Then Gossipy Talk: An Oral Fix on Truman Capote
Literary Pups Snap Savagely At Top Dogs
Roth, Mailer, Bellow Running Out of Gas
