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...explain the traumatic reality of war, to make sense of it, and then to live in it and to live in its wake—whether it be John Singleton Copley’s letters from Europe to his half-brother Henry Pelham back in America or Norman Mailer??s The Naked and the Dead. As I read these things, I learned something about reading the literature of war (or really, any reading): It is an act of self-validation. I didn’t live through the American Revolution or World War II. But I have seen...
Mallory finished the memoir after Mailer??s death in 2007. What would he say if he could read it now? “If he were living he wouldn’t like it. Now that he’s deadI think he’d love it,” Mallory said with a laugh...
...archive from his long-term mistress Carole Mallory, according to the Boston Globe. In Saturday’s Boston Globe, a family friend of the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner said Harvard’s purchase of Mallory’s archive was a spiteful response to Mailer??s $2.5 million sale to the University of Texas in 2005. “Harvard wanted Norman to give them his papers, but instead he sold them to Texas,” the person told the Globe. “Buying this stuff now is so beneath Harvard...
...Gimme gimme. Gimme gimme another edit,’” Mallory recounted. “You don’t say ‘no’ to Norman Mailer and get away with it.”According to Mallory, Mailer??s wife at the time claimed to have been unaware of the nine-year affair, though she added that this claim was “ridiculous.”Considering Mailer??s “polygamist heart” and inability to be faithful, Mallory said she would not be surprised...
Though Scanlan said he did not know the details of Mailer??s sex life, the English professor said any explicit description of the writer’s sexuality would shed light on Mailer??s fiction, which often directly explores...