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In twenty eight interviews this great American writer rises to the occasion and is at his sharpest in conversations with Lillian Ross, Marshall McLuha...
A Biography
'Genius' The New York Times In 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, full...
Poems and Drawings
An unexpected collection from Norman Mailer—a book of his selected poems and more than one hundred of his drawings, most of them never before publis...
Based on Mailer's own experience of military service in the Philippines during World War Two, The Naked and the Dead' is a graphically truthful and sh...
History as a Novel, the Novel as History
The Armies of the Night chronicles the famed October 1967 March on the Pentagon, in which all of the old and new Left—hippies, yuppies, Weathermen, ...
Beginning with his debut masterpiece, The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer has repeatedly told the truth about war. Why Are We at War? returns Mailer...
A Novel
Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D’Or. It is a place for starlets, directors, studi...
Advertisements for Myself, a diverse and freewheeling tour through Mailer’s early career, covers the many subjects with which he’d grapple for the...
An American Mystery
In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains—and enigmas—in United S...
The story of two interlacing love affairs. Sergius O'Shaughnessy is a young ex-Air Force pilot whose good looks and air of indifference launch his int...
Fictional autobiography of Marilyn Monroe....
The author chronicles his experiences during the four days of events surrounding the peace march on the Pentagon in October, 1967....
"Disingenuously shocked to find himself cast by Women's Lib as the archetypal male chauvinist pig, Mailer takes on Kate Millett (Sexual Politics, 1970...
As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise, runs amok through the ci...
Re-creates the crime, trial and events leading to the execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, who requested the death sentence....
With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson ...
In 1974 in Kinshasa, ZaĂŻre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging bu...
Portrays the contrasting personalities and nostalgic reminiscences of a group of World War II American soldiers engaged in a combat operation against ...
Inside look at Republican & Democratic presidential nominating conventions of 1972....
Thoughts on Writing
“Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you ...
For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailer—the literary provocateur who...
An Interpretive Biography
The author sets out to capture Picasso's early life in this biography, exploring the originality of his art and ambition. At the heart of the interpre...
Who was Adolf Hitler? It's a question writers have been trying to answer for more than sixty years. How do we explain Hitler's hatred? Where did it co...
An Uncommon Conversation
“I see God,” wrote Norman Mailer, “as a Creator, as the greatest artist. I see human beings as His most developed artworks.” In these moving, ...
A genuine literary event--an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of ...
A landmark in the modern literature of war by a still-controversial literary icon Includes a selection of letters—nine never before published—that...
Norman Mailer speaks intimately about the nature of God, His power and creativity, and the three way relationship between God, the devil, and man....
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Published at the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer’s audacious novel of socialism is at once an elegy and an indictment, a sinuous moral thr...
New York graffiti artfully reproduced....
Snapshot of America at a crucial moment of transition....
The Epic Journey of Apollo 11
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. And n...
At the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer proved his audacity by writing a novel about Socialism, a book that is at once an elegy and an indict...
On the centennial of John F. Kennedy's birth, discover Norman Mailer's extraordinary profile of the president-to-be. This complete reprint of "Superma...
Bert Stern's "Last Sitting" photographs of Marilyn Monroe enter a dialogue with Norman Mailer's rigorous biography of the actress in this virtuoso pub...
“Spectacular . . . [Norman Mailer] makes every word count, like a master knife thrower zinging stilettos in a circle around your head.”—People N...
Norman Mailer's pro-JFK profile and seminal New Journalism showpiece "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," originally published in Esquire in 1960, now...