Reading: Norman Mailer

In this audiovisual recording from March 21, 1985 as part of the 16th annual UND Writers Conference: “Narratives,” Norman Mailer reads a selection of his work. Mailer tells the story of his near-encounter with Ernest Hemingway, reads from “First Advertisements for Myself,” “Mr. Maugham\u27s Party,” an early version of “The Hazards and Sources of Writing,” and an excerpt from Ancient Evenings. Mailer also responds to audience questions about the writing life and his experience in the Soviet Union

Oddments on Hemingway

Briefly reflects on Hemingway’s legacy and the inability of biographers to capture the true essence of the man

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel the Novel as History

Plume Books First Edition, 199

The Armles of the Night-history as a novel the novel as history

320 ha

The right to write

Recorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Sponsored by: Cornell University Program Board,Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity., Speaker(s): Pulitzer prize winner, co-founder of The Village Voice, author of The Armies of the Night, The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song, Tough Guys Don't Dance, and other works., Lecture, April 4, 1989.Mailer talks of his involvement with the group of writers who spoke out against the Ayatollah Khomeni's death threats to Salmon Rushdie and against Walden Books, who pulled Rushdie's book, Satanic Verses, from their shelves. He recounts the meeting between the writers and a group of Black Muslims to come to some understanding of their opposing positions. He tries to convey a sense of what Khomeni's threat symbolized to Western writers.1_ll048b931_w8yl15jg1_t3xi1wk

The Armies of the Night-histoy as a novel; the novel as history

320 hal;18 c

The Naked and the Dead

xxv;754 hal;ill;21,5c

Helden Zonder Glorie

17,5 cm; 541 ha