Word: mailer
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...Vintage Book of War Fiction," a paperback original edited by Sebastian Faulks and J?rg Hensgen. The book contains an excerpt from "My Favorite War," a novel by TIME senior editor Chris Farley. Also included are some 40 short stories and novel excerpts from writers such as Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller...
...nephew of famous novelist Norman Mailer ’43 and he said his uncle had a large impact...
Alson says he had wanted to attend Harvard, at which both Mailer and Alson’s mother had studied, but he wasn’t a strong enough candidate upon graduating from high school...
Schiller distills Hanssen's story to the torments that fascinate Mailer: guilt, subterfuge, sex and hubris. He lifts dialogue from Mailer's screenplay and incorporates some of Mailer's imagined scenes. If his serviceable prose were any match for Hanssen's intricacies, this might be a book to be reckoned with. But Schiller's real gift is for gathering information. And in the face of Hanssen's spectacular contradictions, mere facts drop to the floor...
...problem that Schiller's film may solve. And if the right opportunity comes along, don't doubt that Mailer will work with Schiller again. Which one needs the other more is an unsettled question. Maybe it always was. Mailer looks at Schiller: "I was always intrigued by what a phenomenon you were." Schiller beams. The feeling is mutual...