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Essay on The Death of Benny Paret

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:58:27 GMT

Injury is inevitable in boxing but rarely does a boxer die as a result of his sport. In Norman Mailer's recollection of the 1962 Paret and Griffith fight entitled "The Death of Benny Paret," he recounts his personal experience of watching the fight.
Source: Associated Content

Friday Morning Videos: "Breakout" (Again)

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:03:54 GMT

"Mailer was a Left Conservative. So he had his own point of view. To himself he would suggest that he tried to think in the style of [Karl] Marx in order to attain certain values suggested by Edmund Burke."
Source: In Medias Res

Lunar Rock Edition Of Norman Mailers Moonfires Is A $90,000 Celestial Hit!

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 00:40:26 GMT

Okay, so Apollo 11 shot into space and settled on extraterrestrial ground decades ago and everyone has heard that story a hundred times but that doesn’t mean the excitement of man’s first moon-landing has come down.
Source: Glam.com

You Can Own A Piece of the Moon - Really!

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:35:03 GMT

This past summer Taschen released Moonfire the comprehensive photographic essay with text originally written by Norman Mailer to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing.
Source: Luxist

Worst Sex of the Year

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:10:05 GMT

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Source: The Daily Beast

Lunar Rock Edition by Marc Newson

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:04:29 GMT

Via highsnobiety, a case designed by Marc Newson for the last 12 copies of Norman Mailer's limited edition book MoonFire.
Source: MoCo Loco

Somebody Tell Me is This is How Normal 13-Year-Olds Flirt These Days

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:36:14 GMT

Quoted in 'Irish American writing stars to pay tribute to Breslin'

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:24:31 GMT

said in Romenesko:

They will have much to celebrate ... Breslin's decades of reporting and commentary, his Pulitzer Prize, his seven novels and 10 books of non-fiction, and even his run for citywide office in the late 1960s, alongside Norman Mailer.

Lunar Luxe: $90,500 Table for Norman Mailer's Apollo 11 Book

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:30:46 GMT

The case itself has detail cues--ranging from the feet to the struts--lifted from the Apollo 11 lunar lander. It's crafted from a single piece of aluminum, and the surface is an topographical reproduction of a section of the moon's surface.
Source: Fast Company

Quoted in 'Book festival takes novel, poetic approach'

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:01:51 GMT

said in Las Vegas Review-Journal | LVRJ.com:

I worked with Norman Mailer and James Baldwin and William Kennedy, a wonderful time and it helped me with my own work because I learned to be as objective looking at my own pages as I was looking at other people's books.

Photo from AP Photo

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:09:27 GMT

This undated picture provided by Bloomsbury Auctions shows a self-portrait crayon sketch by Norman Mailer. It is from the collection of Burt Britton, who, as a bartender, began asking famous writers, athletes and artists to draw pictures of themselves.

Norman Mailer Talks With Charlie Rose

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:50:14 GMT