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Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American writer, journalist and filmmaker. In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II .
The Faith of Graffiti is a 1974 essay by American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer about New York City's graffiti artists. Mailer's essay appeared in a shorter form in Esquire and as a book with 81 photographs by Jon Naar and design by Mervyn Kurlansky. Through interviews, exploration, and analyses, the essay explores the political and ...
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer 1967 Paperback Edition Author Norman Mailer Language English Genre Fiction Published 1967 Publisher Dell Pub. Co; First Dell Printing edition Publication place United States of America Pages 285 ISBN 978-0523480091 OCLC 961934 The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer is a 1967 anthology of short stories by Norman Mailer. It is grouped into eight thematic sections ...
in 100 minutes it weaves together multiple levels and dimensions of The Mailer Experience. It’s about Mailer the writer, the celebrity, the failure, the intoxicated underworld-of-the-'50s ...
Critical response to Mailer's novel was mixed. Jack Miles, writing for Commonweal, found the book "a quiet, sweet, almost wan little book, a kindly offering from a New York Jew to his wife's Bible Belt family." He noted that there was "something undeniably impressive about the restraint" of the style that Mailer undertook in composing the novel.
The Naked and the Dead is a novel written by Norman Mailer.Published by Rinehart & Company in 1948, when he was 25, it was his debut novel. It depicts the experiences of a platoon during World War II, based partially on Mailer's experiences as a cook [2] with the 112th Cavalry Regiment during the Philippines Campaign in World War II. [3]
"In the Red Light: A History of the Republican Convention in 1964" is an essay written by Norman Mailer for Esquire about the Republican National Convention in 1964.Like Mailer's other journalism in the 1960s, "Red Light" uses the subjective techniques of new journalism and assumes a third-person persona to participate in, report on, and comment on the events in California in the summer of 1964.
The Presidential Papers is a collection of essays, interviews, poems, open letters to political figures, and magazine pieces written by Norman Mailer, published in 1963 by G.P. Putnam's Sons. It is, by Mailer's own admission, similar in structure and purpose to Advertisements for Myself , albeit with a relatively stronger focus on contemporary ...