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...just 25 when he became abruptly and unmanageably famous. It was 1948, America was looking for its Great War Novel, and there was Norman Mailer, with his jug-handle ears, his curly hair and The Naked and the Dead. The first of his 10 novels and more than two dozen other titles, it became a huge best seller. But fame soon turned fickle on him, or maybe vice versa. Mailer was too flighty, impious and vainglorious to fill the role of anointed American writer as the '50s conceived it, so for a while his reputation dimmed. But in the decades...
Ever wish you could just get out of a relationship? Then check out George Feydeau’s French farce “Take Her, She’s Yours!”—translated by Norman R. Shapiro ’51—which will open Nov. 19 at the Adams House Pool Theatre. It’s the story of a husband trying to find a new man for his ambivalent wife after he starts having an affair. The Roving Reporter stopped by their dress rehearsal to feel the love.Maria “Masha?...
CORRECTION: The Nov. 13 news article "Peers Recall Quieter Mailer" misquoted Martin Lubin '43, a roommate of Norman K. Mailer '43. Lubin described Mailer as a "rebel without a pause," not a "rebel without a cause...
...fight: “I was lying down on my bed trying to get a little nap, and I was sort of half in half out of wakefulness, and my glasses were in my hand, hanging over the bed side, and I sort of heard Norman come in—he had to walk into my bedroom to go into his. And he just gently took the glasses out of my hand and put them on the desk so they wouldn’t fall...
...that’s the side of Norman you never hear them talk about,” he added...