Mailer. 1923–2007. A Multimedia Tribute
Posted by othersidemedia on November 13, 2007
One of literature’s most famous pugilist finally rests.
I never met the man and won’t claim to be the world’s greatest Mailer scholar, but I admired the hell out of his work and career.
Even if he tended to dip deep much into the art of spectacle, it was with a sheer force of personality you had to admire. Especially because the man behind the mess was full of such damned fine writing.
Like James Baldwin and Oscar Wilde, to me Mailer represents the ultimate man as artist. A champion of literature and culture-loud in life and brash in his search for truth-I admired his insistence that as writers, the work we create is necessary, even vital, in order to truly comprehend ourselves as humans.
Far better writers than I have summarized his life and death, so this will simply server as a link to some of his memorable moments-the sights, sounds and reviews. No matter if you loved or hated him, you’ve got to admit that we’ve lost one of the really important ones. We’ve got some big shoes to fill…
-kwan
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Mailer at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco
Mailer Discusses Harlet’s Ghost and the Writer’s Life
Mailer interviewed by Rollingstone
Norman Mailer discusses “the Spooky Art”
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Norman Mailer vs Rip Torn
Norman Mailer debates Marshall McLuhan
“One a prophet of hip and probable conscious of the nation, the other a prophet of the media and spokesman for the electronic age”
Norman Mailer BBC Tribute
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