Word: mailer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Norman K. Mailer '43 delighted an audience of more than 100 in Emerson Hall this weekend, reading an unpublished work an fielding questions with characteristic eloquence...
...controversial writer--whose visit Friday night was sponsored by the Harvard Advocate, the undergraduate literary magazine that published some of Mailer's earliest prose--set the evening's feisty tone in his first impromptu comments...
...Norman Mailer, Harlot's Ghost...
...Norman Mailer, Harlot's Ghost...
...doing riffs on his own horn ("I'm one of the people that people fight over . . . It's just possible I am the voice of the coming age"), he was appraising fellow authors with faint damns. "What's the point of talking as if I were Mailer or Updike?" he demanded. "I don't have the guts they have. I could defend myself by saying that they're not carrying so dangerous a message, but maybe I'm flattering myself...