by J. Michael Lennon, Professor of English, Wilkes University Among our major living writers, Norman Mailer is perhaps the most well-known, both in the United States and internationally. No career in our literature has been at once so brilliant, varied, controversial, public, prolific and misunderstood. ...
American Masters' "Norman Mailer: Mailer on Mailer" is a co-production with Reciprocal Films and Films d'Ici in France. The program was originally produced for French television as three, one-hour programs and broadcast on successive nights. Below is a discussion between Tamar Hacker, Sr. Producer for ...
One of the most outspoken and controversial writers of the 20th century, Norman Mailer's unrelenting quest for truth and meaning found him both fame and infamy. His novels, such as "The Naked and the Dead", "The Executioner's Song", are potent with both wise adages and ...
"I get my energy, I think, from being afraid to choreograph, being afraid to fail." In 1952, a 22-year old athlete with little training or experience won a work scholarship to the American Dance Festival. Powerfully built, he immediately captured the attention of dance giants ...
"I walked on the banks of the tincan banana dock and sat down under the huge shade of a Southern Pacific locomotive to look at the sunset over the boxhouse hills and cry. Jack Kerouac sat beside me on a busted rusty iron pole, companion, ...
