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Norman Mailer

Nuance and Nuisance

by Ed Park,

On the Village Voice

Words Fail Norman Mailer

by Alexandra Wolfe,

From a September 2023 entry in Air Mail. My dad, Tom Wolfe, delighted in defending his style of writing and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers. In…

Literary Agents

by J. Patrick Brown, Beryl Lipton, Michael Morisy,

From descriptions of writers included in FBI surveillance reports. The files were published this year by MIT Press. The collection, Writers Under Surveillance, was edited by JPat Brown, B.C.D. Lipton,…

Does Mailer Matter?

by Christopher Beha,

The Young Writer and the last literary celebrity

The Maintenance Crew

by Thomas Frank,

Remember the moment when “the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”? It was late in the spring of 2008, and that was one…

Briefly noted

by Harper’s Staff,

Get your ass off my pillow

by Andrew O’Hagan,

New books

by John Leonard,

The reanimators

by Jonathan Dee,

On the art of literary graverobbing

Ifs, ands, butts. The literary sensibility at ringside

by Arthur Krystal,

Dunce of the month

by Harper’s Staff,

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