Norman Mailer

Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America’s Greatest Invention, the Martini

A Look at Patricia Highsmith, Norman Mailer, Gary Shteyngart, Karl Ove Knausgaard, and More

 
By Dwight Garner  October 25, 2023
Literary History

The Future President and the Novelist: When Norman Mailer Met John F. Kennedy

By Richard Bradford  January 17, 2023
Best of 2022

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

By Literary Hub  December 20, 2022
Literary Friendships

Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

By Charles J. Shields  January 19, 2022
The Hub

Everything you need to know about Norman Mailer’s recent (non-)cancellation.

By Emily Temple  January 5, 2022
Reading Lists

How the New York Times Reacted to Norman Mailer’s First Novel

By Book Marks  January 5, 2022
Creative Nonfiction

The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre

By Lee Gutkind  December 13, 2021
The Hub

Who will play Norman Mailer in this new true crime series?

By Dan Sheehan  October 29, 2021
New York City

Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

By Vince Passaro  September 15, 2021
Literary History

The Time I Watched Norman Mailer Try to Fight G. Gordon Liddy in the Street

By James Grady  May 19, 2021
Lit Century

Should Norman Mailer Have Any Legacy Beyond Being the Guy Who Stabbed His Wife?

By Lit Century   May 11, 2021
Punctuation

The Punctuation Marks Loved (and Hated) by Famous Writers

By Emily Temple  May 4, 2021
Language

When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up

By Ralph Keyes  March 15, 2021
The Hub

The top 10 author cameos on screen: ranked.

By Jessie Gaynor  January 26, 2021
The Hub

There’s going to be a TV adaptation of The Naked and the Dead, because sure.

By Emily Temple  February 4, 2020
Music

When Classical Music Was a Cold War Battleground

By Jonathan Rosenberg  December 19, 2019
Literary History

11 Legendary Literary Parties We’re Sad to Have Missed

By Emily Temple  July 18, 2019
Feature

How to Copy Your Favorite Authors’ Best Beach Looks

By Emily Temple  July 13, 2018
Criticism

How Should a Male Writer Be? On the Toxic Competitiveness of Writers

By Alex Gilvarry  September 11, 2017
What to Read

100 Books Across America: Fiction and Nonfiction for Every State in the Union

By Emily Temple  August 23, 2017
Excerpts

So You’ve Decided to Write: Is Your Novel Actually Fiction or Non?

By Terry McDonell  August 1, 2017
Advice

So You’ve Decided to Write: Advice from a Great and Notorious Editor

By Terry McDonell  July 11, 2017
Archives

The Time Mario Puzo Wrote a Takedown of The Paris Review

By M. J. Moore  December 9, 2016
Did you know?

Watch James Toback Tell The Story of Getting Punched by Norman Mailer

By Emily Temple  December 6, 2016
What to Read

10 Classics of Campaign Literature

By Ed Simon  July 18, 2016
Feature

The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of The New Yorker

By David Remnick  July 5, 2016
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