Norman Mailer

Why I Hate Aging! I Mean, It's Really Getting Old!

By the time you finish reading this, you'll be older than you are now

Daily News Publishes Tasteful Naked Photo of Truman Capote

​The New York Daily News launched a blog about literature and publishing today called Page Views. So far it has three posts: one introductory post from each editor and also a nude photo of Truman Capote lounging in a towel. As if a tabloid with a lit blog wasn't novel enough!

Norman Mailer's Apartment Is Embroiled in a Lawsuit

​Earlier this year, the nautical-themed apartment at 142 Columbia Heights in which co-founder of the Village Voice and notable brawler Norman Mailer lived was put on the market by Corcoran with an asking price of $2.5 million. In July, an offer of $2.08 million was accepted from Wesley Golby, ... More >>

Watergate Proving that Norman Mailer's Paranoia Was Prescient

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 12, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 28 Mailer's 5th Estate: Who's paranoid now? by Frank Crowther "Paranoia is the most useful or the most destructive faculty of the human spirit. One never knows when it's devoted to you or your destruction ... More >>

Norman Mailer's House (and Stuff) Is for Sale

​Ooh. Would you like to own Norman Mailer's nautical-themed Brooklyn Heights home, on Columbia Heights near Pineapple Street? Of course you would, though if you don't have $2.5 million, that will be difficult. But you could own other things the literary icon once touched, like his 1960s-era ju ... More >>

Norman Mailer's 50th Birthday Party: "Maahhvelous!"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 6 Mailer's Birthday by Lucian K. Truscott IV Norman Mailer is probably the only man in America who could give himself a birthday party, charge $50 a couple admission to the posh inner sanctum of the Fo ... More >>

The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday

Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ...

The Village Voice's Chantal Martineau Will Guest Star at Fatty Johnson's Tomorrow

fci.tumblr.com​Fatty Johnson's, the pop-up bar from Zac Pelaccio in the old Cabrito space, has been playing host to many of the city's finest bartenders while offering a menu of porky delights (Our Man Sietsema enjoyed the burger, and we're especially partial to the chicken soup chock full of ... More >>

Jack Newfield: There Is No "New Journalism"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 18, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 20 Of honest men & good writers By Jack Newfield After participating in several panel discussions, attending (More)'s counter-convention, reading books and articles by Tom Wolfe and Mike Arlen, and being i ... More >>

Norman Mailer Keeps Trying this Moviemaking Thing

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. September 23, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 38 films in focus By Andrew Sarris Norman Mailer's "MAIDSTONE" is being exhibited these days at the Whitney Museum, and "exhibited" is perhaps an apter term for the enterprise than "shown" or "released ... More >>

For Cannon Films, Chuck Norris + Godard = Success

The 'Voice' is 55 Today

​55 years ago today, the first issue of a newspaper put out by editor Daniel Wolf and publisher Edwin Fancher (and paid for by their buddy Norman Mailer) made its debut in the Village. More than half a century later, Wolf and Fancher and Mailer's little experiment not only is still alive, it ... More >>

In Memoriam: Jill Johnston (1929-2010)

Kanye West's "OFFICIAL POWER REMIX" Has Arrived

​It's here. Jay-Z's on it. But Swizz Beatz runs away with it. Believe it.

The Voice, Shockingly, Endorses Norman Mailer

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 12, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 35 Editorials for June 17 Mailer-Breslin The significant advance in this dreary primary is the introduction of Norman Mailer to municipal politics. He understands better than anyone around the anguish of ... More >>

SIREN SERENADE

We're the best! We rule! Yay, us!

Norman Mailer Wins A Pulitzer, But Gets No Respect From the Press

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 8, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 30 (New logo!) Mailer Hits Press Coverage by Joe Pilati "I've been honored by the highest prize in your profession," Pulitzer Prize-winning mayoral candidate Norman Mailer told a throng of reporters at a pres ... More >>

Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin Thinking About this Mayor Thing

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 3, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 25 Norman Mailer For Mayor? The tenth entrant in the Democratic mayoral scramble may be Norman Mailer. If Mailer opts in, his running mate for City Council President will be Jimmy Breslin, the combative ch ... More >>

Rip Torn the Most Paranoid Man Ever

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 27, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 24 'Let's Get a Rip Torn Type' by Michael Zwerin If you want to laugh at an actor named Rip Torn, that's your problem. Born Elmore Torn 37 years ago in Temple, Texas, he was nicknamed Rip around the house ... More >>

Why Norman Mailer Sucked as a Filmmaker

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 24, 1968, Vol. XIV, No. 2 Films by Andrew Sarris Norman Mailer's "BEYOND THE LAW" (at the Art) represents an infinite improvement over "Wild 90," Mailer's maiden effort in cinematographic expression. "Beyond the Law" is at lea ... More >>

Norman Mailer Throws a Block Party, Martha Raye Tries to Spoil It

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 4, 1967, Vol. XII, No. 29 Mailer's Street Scene: Renewal on Sunday By Stephanie Harrington When Norman Mailer gives a party in the Village, even the elements hang in for the old burgomaster. Last Sunday the air was soft and invitin ... More >>

Clip Job: Mailer's LEGO Vision of New York

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesFebruary 18, 1965, Vol. X, No. 18Mailer's Castle: Far Out, Way Up, and SwingingBy Mary NicholsFrom where novelist Norman Mailer sits, the cityscape -- the big scene -- is getting more dreadful all the time. He broods over the Manhattan skyline ... More >>

Who's Really a "Legend"?

​ The words "legend" and "icon" are thrown around so effortlessly these days at anyone who's accomplished what any ordinary person could achieve in a couple of New York minutes that I sometimes want to ask my legendary doorman if the iconic UPS man has arrived yet.

Clip Job: Mailer Tangles with Architecture Egghead

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesApril 16, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 26Is Architecture Totalitarian?Is contemporary architecture totalitarian? The eminently professional Architectural Forum in its April issue spread out before the readers the bitter words of an outsider. A Yale pro bla ... More >>

Rip Torn, Roaring, at Anthology

Making bizarre look easy (and bizarre)

Maidstone

FBI Spied Uselessly On Norman Mailer for 15 Years

Soup and Homicidal Nuts: Recalling a Cheaper, Scarier Village

Clip Job: The Mailer-Kerouac Thing Settled at Last

Clip Job: Mailer on Meaninglessness

Clip Job: Not a Mailer Fan

Clip Job: The Mad Mongolian, and Mailer, Too!

David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'

An election-season essay

The Nuances of Nuisance: Why Mailer Quit the Voice

Three Ways of Looking at Norman Mailer

Voice Readers React to Mailer's Early Columns

Letters

Why Mailer Matters

Appreciating the rascal writer who started it all

Norman Mailer, 1923-2007

He changed American journalism and letters, and co-founded The Village Voice

Mailer Undergoes Lung Surgery

Norman Mailer Chews Rip Torn's Ear Off

Norman Mailer's Other Career

Directing films, did the writer bite off more than he could chew?

The Devil You Know, The Devil You Don't

Norman Mailer channels one of hell's angels in his saga of the Hitler family

A Literary Legend Goes a Few Rounds With His Son

Paper Route

Buying and selling and buying the Voice

'Voice' on Literature

Reviews of the last 50 years

Song of the Thin Man

Wardell Gray's Princely Lament

Horoscope

Bygone Conclusions

Novelist Novelty