Norman Mailer

Sex tapes and outings and schlubs, oh my! Sex tapes and outings and schlubs, oh my!

Celebrate the year in sexual intrigue, as D-list celebs spread it for the cameras, Hollywood avoids smushmortions, and Hitler's mommy gets laid.
  • Queen Hillary's disruptive court

    The press corps finally wakes up to her waffling and evasions. Plus: Norman Mailer's largely forgotten legacy and our disappointing lesbian icons!
  • Norman Mailer 1923 - 2007

    Remembrances of Norman Mailer by Marlon Brando, Liz Smith, Irving Howe, Diana Trilling, Edward Abbey, Germaine Greer and other notables.
  • Remembering Norman Mailer through his books

    This entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes us on a tour of his best, his worst and his bravest.
  • Too much Gore

    Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
  • The sound bite and the fury

    Literary bad boy James Frey says Dave Eggers can eat his dust. His self-promotion is tiresome, but his addiction memoir, "A Million Little Pieces," shows he has the right stuff.
  • "The Spooky Art" by Norman Mailer

    In a new volume of advice to young writers, the great man of American letters weighs his own legacy -- and finds it wanting.
  • Farewell to Will

    Norman Mailer flattens George Will after the bow-tied GOP courtier notes a Hemingway-like eloquence in our president's mangled prose.
  • Here we go again

    A Clinton fan tears off her shirt right after the president signs it; Britney Spears spotted in sync with Justin Timberlake; and Martha Stewart gets carried away with a trespasser. Plus: Fabio's a Gore man, Meg Ryan's a Quaid woman.
  • My perversion

    The love that dare not cluck its name; a few words about dirty words in Mexico; and the prize that is Consuela.
  • The art of crime

    Ex-con and man of letters Edward Bunker discusses his new memoir, "Education of a Felon," and life as an upstanding citizen.
  • The return of the White Negro

    Filmmaker James Toback talks about race, sex, Warren Beatty and his explosive new movie, "Black and White."
  • "Main Event"

    A retrospective of Howard Bingham's photography recalls the Ali-Foreman "Rumble in the Jungle."
  • Tom Wolfe calls Irving, Mailer and Updike "the Three Stooges"

    "Bonfire of the Vanities" author fans literary feud.
  • A Dunne deal

    In his new memoir, Dominick Dunne describes how he found fame the old-fashioned way: He yearned for it.
  • The docu-novel

    The author of "Bellefleur" selects five great "nonfiction novels."
  • Faster, pussycat ... save me the aisle seat?

    Meyer and Ebert agree on the big, bouncy issues. Beatty clues in, moves on, drops out. Also: Can it be true? Howard laments dearth of lesbians!
  • Mailer vs. Greer: The bout that wasn't

    Mailer vs. Greer: The bout that wasn't
  • Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist

    The author of the 1970 bestseller "Sexual Politics" may have been the women's movement's most unlikely heroine, or maybe not.
  • Punch drunk

    Vivian Gornick reviews 'The Time of Our Time' a collection of essays by Norman Mailer
  • The year in books

    Dwight Garner reviews the events in book publishing in 1997
  • The man who loved books in Turkey

    For Lisa Michaels, an encounter with a book-starved shopkeeper in Turkey provides a new perspective on literary packing.
  • twilight of the old goats

    Salon magazine: Mailer, Roth and Bellow refuse to go quietly. By D.T. Max

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