Norman Mailer described the series as " a comic strip for intellectuals.

The headbutting and later on-air altercation was described by Mailer himself in his short book Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots, including a description that does not jibe with the videotape and was disputed by Cavett decades later in his New York Times Online column.

Norman Mailer described it as " one of the most important pictures I have ever seen in my life ".

Other books that focus on graffiti include Faith of Graffiti by Norman Mailer, Trespass by Taschen press, and the comic book Concrete Immortalz by Elite Gudz, which has a graffiti artist as its main character.

" Others have, however, pointed out that Mailer was dissatisfied with a picture of him holding his crotch taken by Arbus which appeared in the New York Times Book Review.

The Voice was launched by Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer on October 26, 1955 from a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village, which was its initial coverage area, expanding to other parts of the city by the 1960s.

Mailer, who owned several orgone accumulators – including some in the shape of eggs – wrote about Reich enthusiastically in The Village Voice, as a result of which Orgonon became a place of pilgrimage and the orgasm a symbol of liberation.

An affiliated project for which Zevon both played and wrote liner notes is the offbeat 1998 album Stranger Than Fiction, a two CD set attributed to the Wrockers containing rock covers and originals by many of the Remainders authors plus such notables as Norman Mailer and Maya Angelou.

In that book, Mailer wrote, " spoke in his fine stammering voice which gave the impression that life rushed at him in a series of hurdles and some he succeeded in jumping and some he did not.

In 1964, in " In the Red Light: A History of the Republican Convention in 1964 ," published in the November 1964 issue of Esquire, Norman Mailer wrote: " The American mind had gone from Hawthorne and Emerson to the Frug, the Bounce, and Walking the Dog, from The Flowering of New England to the cerebrality of professional football in which a quarterback must have not only heart, courage, strength and grace but a mind like an I. B. M.

The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, Robert Christgau, Gay Talese and others.

A report of John F. Kennedy's nomination that year, the piece established a precedent which Mailer would later build on in his 1968 convention coverage ( Miami and the Siege of Chicago ) and in other nonfiction as well.

Seymour Krim's Shake It for the World, Smartass, which appeared in 1970, contained " An Open Letter to Norman Mailer " which defined New Journalism as " a free nonfictional prose that uses every resource of the best fiction.

Charles Brown in 1972 reviewed much that had been written as New Journalism and about New Journalism by Capote, Wolfe, Mailer and others and labelled the genre " New Art Journalism ," which allowed him to test it both as art and as journalism.

I recall a fine description of men carrying a dying man down a mountain ; but every time I got going in the narrative I would find myself stopped cold by a set of made-up, predictable characters taken, not from life, but from the same novels all of us had read, and informed by a naivete which was at its worst when Mailer went into his Time-Machine and wrote those passages which resemble nothing so much as the prose poems of Weary Reilley in Studs Lonigan.

:"... The word has been a source of great embarrassment to me over the years because, you know, Tallulah Bankhead's press agent, many years ago, got a story in the papers which went ...' Oh, hello, you're Norman Mailer ,' said Tallulah Bankhead allegedly, ' You're the young man that doesn't know how to spell ...' You know, the four-letter word was indicated with all sorts of asterisks ...

He was responsible for the Vintage paperbacks, which published such authors as Norman Mailer, David Rudomin, Vladimir Nabokov, E. L. Doctorow, Adam Steinbrecher, Gore Vidal, Itai Guttman, and Philip Roth.

Robert Mailer Anderson ( born 1968 in San Francisco ) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and socialite, the author of the novel Boonville, which takes place in the Northern California town of Boonville.

A long laugh by the audience ensued, after which Mailer asked Cavett if he had " come up with that line himself ".

The non-conformity which Mailer exhibits to Capote's criterion was the beginning of a feud that never resolved between the authors, and was ended with Capote's death in 1984.

In a 1992 interview in The Buffalo News, Mailer said that his involvement with Abbott was " another episode in my life in which I can find nothing to cheer about or nothing to take pride in.

Following the seizure of Buckley's card, Harold L. Humes convened a " Citizens ' Emergency Committee " -- which included Norman Mailer, David Amram, and Norman Podhoretz -- in the apartment of writer George Plimpton.

Rembar founded the law firm of Rembar & Curtis, which represented writers such as Louise Erdrich, Tom Clancy, Herman Wouk, and Norman Mailer both as lawyers and often as literary agents as well.

Farrell confesses the scam to the elderly couple, which prompts Mailer to add him to his list of potential victims.

Although some of Arbus's photographs have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction, Arbus's work has provoked controversy ; for example, Norman Mailer was quoted in 1971 as saying " Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

A handful of the most widely recognized writers in the genre such as Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe, John McPhee, Joan Didion and Norman Mailer, have seen some criticism on their more prominent works.

Interview subjects have included Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, and Norman Mailer.

Notable contributors have included Barry Michael Cooper, Dave Eggers, Chuck Klosterman, Byron Coley, Kim France, Tad Friend, Elizabeth Gilbert, Andy Greenwald, William T. Vollman, Will Hermes, Dave Itzkoff, David Bourgeois, John Leland, Bart Bull, Greil Marcus, Matt Groening, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Glenn O ' Brien, Norman Mailer, R. Meltzer, Karen Schoemer, Marilyn Manson, William S. Burroughs, Anton Corbijn, Bob Gruen, Roberta Bayley, Jon Dolan, Rob Tannenbaum, Jonathan Ames, Strawberry Saroyan, Paul Beahan ( founder of Manimal Vinyl ), Michael O ' Donoghue, Bönz Malone, Hari Kondabolu, Dan Ackerman, and Marc Spitz.

Noted authors who have been associated with the conference over the years include James Brown, John Ciardi, Bernard DeVoto, Robert Frost, John Gardner, Richard Gehman, Donald Hall, John Irving, Shirley Jackson, Barry Lopez, Robie Macauley, Carson McCullers, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, Linda Pastan, May Sarton, Anne Sexton, Eudora Welty, and Richard Yates.

A biography of Norman Mailer says that when he was at Harvard " it would have been unthinkable ... for a Jew to be invited to join one of the so-called final clubs like Porcellian, A. D. Club, Fly, or Spee.

( Norman Mailer ), but no one can deny that the screen crackles with electricity whenever he is on it.

Dunster is unique among Harvard dormitories for its sixth-story walk-up ( it has no elevators ); these rooms were originally rented by poorer students, such as Norman Mailer.

Norman Mailer, for instance, said " There is no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit.

Moments before the episode with Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, and Janet Flanner, Mailer, annoyed with a less-than-stellar review by Vidal of Prisoner of Sex, headbutted Vidal and traded insults with him backstage.

By the evening of the match, Madison Square Garden had a circus-like atmosphere, with scores of policemen to control the crowd, outrageously dressed fans, and countless celebrities, from Norman Mailer and Woody Allen to Frank Sinatra, who, after being unable to procure a ringside seat, took photographs for Life magazine instead.

In 1971, editor Willie Morris resigned under pressure from owner John Cowles, Jr., prompting resignations from many of the magazine ’ s star contributors and staffers, including Norman Mailer, David Halberstam, Robert Kotlowitz, Marshall Frady and Larry L. King:

Because it reads like a novel ( and rearranges the sequence of true events in time ), it is sometimes referred to as a " non-fiction novel " or " faction ", a sub-genre popularized by Truman Capote and Norman Mailer.

" ( 1968 Panel Discussion, CBLT-TV, Toronto, moderated by Robert Fulford ) From " Conversations with Norman Mailer ", 1988.

He openly taunted and mocked Vidal ( who responded in kind ), finally earning the ire of Flanner, who announced that the discussion had become " extremely boring ", telling Mailer " You act as if you're the only people here.

*" The Faith of Graffiti ", Mervyn Kurlansky, Jon Naar, Norman Mailer.

Mailer essentially created his own genre ; as the subtitle suggests, the narrative is split into historicized and novelized accounts of the October 1967 March on the Pentagon.