Word: mailer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashionable to call Norman Mailer the bad boy of American literature and leave it at that. The underground stories about him circulate, and the incidents he provokes have become legend. Who has not heard about his poetry reading at the 92nd St. YMHA in New York, when officials rang down the curtain during a performance for the first time in twenty years? Or his nomination of Hemingway for President? Or his own candidacy for Mayor of New York? Or his belief that plastic causes cancer? Mailer, the cynics say, is "paceless, tasteless, and graceless...
Author Norman Mailer and violinist James Oliver Buswell IV '69, will be the guests of the Tenth Annual Leverett House Festival of the Arts this week...
...Mailer, author of The Naked and the Dead and An American Dream, will speak on May 6th in a presentation cosponsored by the Harvard Advocate...
...short story are entirely distinct: the difference between someone telling a quiet anecdote and someone engaging in a public debate. Only a few writers have managed both with equal felicity, among them Chekhov and Maugham. Such fiction practitioners as Saul Bellow, John O'Hara and Norman Mailer have had little success at playwriting. With the direction reversed, Miller and Williams at least make a better showing...
Instant Delphi. He masked up for Truman Capote's ball, has escorted Jacqueline Kennedy to the movies, helped Norman Mailer celebrate the opening of his play, The Deer Park. "Any party with Arthur Schlesinger and me in it," proclaims perpetual Starlet Monique Van Vooren, "can't be a failure." True enough and, like the Bell Telephone Hour, Schlesinger now hits all notes from classical to pop-with not a note dropped or a cadenza slighted along...