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Morning Bites: Watchmen prequels, S.J. Perelman, fiction faith struggles, Mailer, The Shining 2 (by Franzen), and more

On February 1, 2012 By Jason Diamond

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Keith Gessen as a pop culture reference on Gossip Girl

On November 7, 2011 By Jason Diamond

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Keith Gessen getting name-dropped on Gossip Girl is cool, but with all due respect, it’s no Norman Mailer on the Gilmore Girls…

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Literary Trading Cards: Mailer, Royko, Parker and Hunter S. Share a Drink

On March 4, 2011 By Margarita Korol

We liked hearing Gay Talese talk about all the drinking and partying that used to go on at The New York Times, that this week’s literary trading card is dedicated to four of our favorite writers who probably spent as much time with their bartender as they did their editor.

From left to right: Dorothy Parker, Mike Royko, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer.

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(All art by Margarita Korol)
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I Don’t Want to Read About Norman Mailer’s Old Balls…

On April 2, 2010 By Jason Diamond

This is why A Ticket to the Circus has sat on my desk untouched for a few weeks now. I know this sounds terrible, but I really think one tell all book about somebodies relationship with the later writer is about all I can handle in a 365 day period, and I don’t think I need to imagine Mailer’s sweaty, hairy body rolling around in the heat of passion (I’ve already seen the Rip Torn fight video).

Whatever the case, Jezebel tries their best at making a case for the book, or [...]
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Weekend Bites: Goodbye McSweeney, The New Expats, Sartre’s Eyes, America’s Greatest Literay Generation, and More

On February 6, 2010 By Jason Diamond

Mailer, Updike, Bellow, and Salinger are all gone: America’s greatest literary generation is over.
Aaron Lake Smith writes about a coffee shop in Cairo, Il. Jean-Paul Sartre’s eyes. McSweeney’snamesake, has passed away. Wes Anderson, Stephen O’Malley, Johnny Depp, and other American “artist types” living in Paris. Yes, Superchunk is awesome.
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Mailer the Writer/Mailer the Opportunity?

On February 4, 2010 By Jason Diamond

“Dwayne Raymond, a young writer who was waiting table at a restaurant in Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod, where Mailer spent most of his final years.”

Since Mornings With Mailer (Harper Perennial) is about Raymond’s time as Norman Mailer’s assistant, leading up to the writers death in 2007, was I skeptical even before I crack open the book?

Sure.

I could argue that being an even semi-successful writer comes down to luck, and the ability to seize an opportunity. What you do with those things is up to you. In Raymond’s case, he decided [...]
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Weekend bites: Letters from John Hughes, continued Pynchon mania, Norman Mailor with his pants down, pop culture and the prez

On August 8, 2009 By Jason Diamond

The late John Hughes had a pen pal. Everybody is weighing in on Inherent Vice, and now, Three Guys One Book gives us a Youtube trailer to add to Pynchon Mania. Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeah’s) did some music for the upcoming Where the Wild Things Are soundtrack. The Rumpus shares some good advice from the late Budd Schulberg. At the New Museum, Norman Mailer is caught with his pants down, sort of, and it’s not pretty. Judy Garland was crazy, who knew? Oh wait… Kurt Anderson on how Obama is changing [...]
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Monday Bites: literary duels, giant guinea pigs, poets being selfish, pynchon reviews, daria, david cronenberg picks delillo’s worst book

On July 27, 2009 By Willa A. Cmiel

Good morning! Did you know that Dostoevsky once challenged Turgenev to a duel? I ask, with swords?? Do famous writers still duel? Norman Mailer probably did. And Mario Vargas Llosa and Gabriel Garcia Marquez sort of managed, although it was more of a one-punch deal. On literary feuds. Giant guinea pigs trump boy wizards, apparently. The Daily Beast interviews Jeffrey Eugenides, who was fired from his desk job at the Academy of American Poets for writing parts of The Virgin Suicides on the job. While I’m sure the paperwork needed to be done, [...]
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