Norman mailer

Today we revisit one of the great icons of manly trad, who always gave the impression that, at any moment, he might take off his sack jacket, club tie and oxford and arm-wrestle Muhammad Ali.

Adele Morales Mailer, an actress and artist who studied under Lee Strasberg and Hans Hoffman, but found unwanted fame as the stabbing victim of her then-husband, Norman Mailer, died Sunday at age 90 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

1960

Pulitzer Prize Recipient Twice, Author. He received world-wide acclaim as an American novelist and journalist of the 20th century, excelling in writings that dealt with social and political unrest of his era, and often wrote in a harsh rhetoric. In 1968 he authored The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel...

In this never-before-published interview, Mailer talks about his experiences with drugs, his thoughts on the nuclear age, punk rock, the devil, head-butting Gore Vidal, his experiences in Bellevue after stabbing his wife, whether he hates women, and how corporations run everything in the US.

Norman Mailer was known for his toughness and temper, and his letters have plenty of that, but they also show his kindness and generosity with other writers.

Norman Mailer was born on this day, January 31, in 1923. "I hope you can spend the evening," was Mailer's greeting. "I'm planning to cook dinner for you."

Memoir of Norman Mailer's personal assistant during the last four years of his life. Before Mailer started writing his Hitler novel Castle in the Forest he made endless notes on thousands of three-by-five cards, and nearly illegible scribbles on the margins of the pages of numerous books. It seemed to me that most of this early work consisted of defining what he did not want his book to be. Even so, he had completed the first 140 pages of an early version before I came to work for him in…