Tag Archives: Norman Mailer

MLK Day Roundup

Posted on January 15, 2023 by Jeffrey Manley

–The German-language paper Der Standart based in Austria has posted an article about Waugh’s book collecting. This is mostly devoted to a book previously discussed. Here is a translation of the text: You may know the British novelist Evelyn Waugh … Continue reading →

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Waugh and Norman Mailer: “The Naked and the Read”

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

This week’s TLS has an article (“The Naked and the Read”) about Norman Mailer’s library. This is by J Michael Lennon, Mailer’s archivist and authorized biographer. Mailer seems to have been a book accumulator rather than a book collector like … Continue reading →

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Armies of the Night; Writers on the Right

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Jeffrey Manley

The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has posted a 1968 TV interview of novelist Norman Mailer by William F Buckley, Jr. This was in Buckley’s Firing Line series which went out for many years on PBS. The subject of the … Continue reading →

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Paul Johnson: Novelists at Arms

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Antony F. P. Vickery

Paul Johnson in Standpoint magazine surveys novels and novelists of the Second World War, including James Jones, Norman Mailer, Olivia Manning, Anthony Powell, and Evelyn Waugh: It is a mistake, in my view, to hold a popularity contest between A … Continue reading →

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