#norman-mailer — Public Fediverse posts

“Every moment of one’s #existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.” - #NormanMailer

silvae: Mark Twain

Aber ich glaube, ich muss mich vor den anderen aus dem Staub machen, denn Tante Sally will mich adoptieren und zivilisieren, und das halte ich nicht aus. Das habe ich schon einmal erlebt, sind die letzten Sätze von Mark Twains Huckleberry Finn→ https://loomings-jay.blogspot.com/2025/11/mark-twain.html

Norman Mailer 1984 über Huck Finn in der →New York Times 

Was ist Größe anderes als der unzerstörbare Reichtum, den sie in der Erinnerung des Geistes hinterlässt, nachdem die Hoffnung verflogen und die Leidenschaften verglüht sind? Es ist immer die Hoffnung der Demokratie, dass unser Reichtum wieder zur Verfügung steht, und der bleibende Schatz von „Huckleberry Finn“ besteht darin, dass er uns die Freiheit gibt, über Demokratie und ihre erhabene, erschreckende Prämisse nachzudenken: Lasst die Leidenschaften und Begierden, Träume und Macken, Ideale und Gier, Hoffnungen und üblen Verfehlungen aller Männer und Frauen ihren Lauf nehmen, und die Welt wird dennoch besser sein, denn in der Summe sind wir und unser Tun mehr gut als böse. Mark Twain, die Verkörperung dieses demokratischen Menschen, verstand diese Prämisse in jedem seiner Sätze, und wie er sie auf die Probe stellte, wie er sie verdrehte und reizte und testete, bis wir wieder ganz schwach wurden vor Liebe zu dieser Idee.

#artikel #blogger #huckFinn #loomingsJayBlogspot #markTwain #newYorkTimes #normanMailer #schriftsteller #silvae #zitat

New #podcast: #DavidDenby joins the show to talk about his new book, EMINENT JEWS: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer! We talk #art #music #movies #comedy #feminism #books #GreatBooks & a LOT more, so GO LISTEN! https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-642-david-denby

#LeonardBernstein #MelBrooks #BettyFriedan #NormanMailer

I like to watch this clip every so often. She has a brilliant way of speaking which keeps the listener hanging on her next word. #StaleLiteraryFeuds #feminism #CynthiaOzick #NormanMailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLFQ5wQOY-g

‘How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer’ Review: A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience, and Its Dark Side Too
#Variety #Reviews #HowtoComeAlivewithNormanMailer #NormanMailer

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/how-to-come-alive-with-norman-mailer-review-1236072765/

‘How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer’ Review: A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience, and Its Dark Side Too
#Variety #Reviews #HowtoComeAlivewithNormanMailer #NormanMailer

https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/how-to-come-alive-with-norman-mailer-review-1236072765/

On my holiday, I took a #book that I was finishing and had a choice of taking another one. I don’t use e-books and so I mean paper books. The new one I took was called #TheFight by #NormanMailer. It’s about the famous #boxing match between #MuhammadAli and #GeorgeForeman. Now, boxing is not everyone’s cup of tea and I am no ardent follower of the #sport either. [Cont...]

On my holiday, I took a #book that I was finishing and had a choice of taking another one. I don’t use e-books and so I mean paper books. The new one I took was called #TheFight by #NormanMailer. It’s about the famous #boxing match between #MuhammadAli and #GeorgeForeman. Now, boxing is not everyone’s cup of tea and I am no ardent follower of the #sport either. [Cont...]

> #NormanMailer defined a pro as someone who can work on a bad day... The motto.. would be the timeless wisdom of Dr. Johnson: “No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” A pro makes deadlines, and a pro makes compromises, too. A pro lives in real time in the real world and secretly relishes the constraints of the job. A pro’s greatest boast might be #AJLiebling’s: “I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”

Yesterday's #art-mistakes: another Japanese White-Eye #watercolor #postcard, close up, with proportions/curves screwed up, and a BOTD Micron sketch of #LeeMarvin that turned into #NormanMailer. You're welcome.

#amateurartist

The Naked and the Grateful Dead

#SingABookWithALeadSingerOrBand
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#NormanMailer

The Naked and the Grateful Dead

#SingABookWithALeadSingerOrBand
#HashTagGames
#NormanMailer

"Once he asked me if I knew anything about chamber quartets. It was obvious at the instant that he played in such a group, and I, full of the roller hockey and touch football of Brooklyn streets — two sewers apart were our goal lines — blurted out in my new-found Harvard voice that miserably I was an ignoramus at such things. And we nodded painfully and enthusiastically at each other and kept eating in longer silences. "

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https://projectmailer.net/pm/Preface_to_Fiction_Writer%27s_Handbook

#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 26: An Australian in the lead on #HugAnAustralianDay

Skip the hugging. John Hillcoat's deeply unpleasant debut Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (1988) is based on the book In the Belly of the Beast (1981), a collection of excerpts of letters between prisoner Jack Henry Abbott and author Norman Mailer. True to the book's format, Ghosts consists of disjointed vignettes of monologues, #CCTV footage, title cards, and prisoners' phone calls. For the last 37 months, these filters inform the observer, the hypermodern #supermax Central Industrial Prison has been in permanent lockdown. The cast, a mix of professional actors and ex-cons, and the location, a clean factory-style hangar in the middle of the Australian desert, underscore the underlying raw brutality of the unfolding events.

The #industrial soundtrack is by Bad Seeds Nick Cave (co-writer and starring as Maynard), Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld from when they were still closer to being birthday boys than morose crooners.

#film #cinema #Australia #crime #prison #PrisonSystem #SciFi #BookAdaptation #prisoners #JackHenryAbbott #NormanMailer #NickCave #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @bales1181 @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

#Bales2023FilmChallenge April 26: An Australian in the lead on #HugAnAustralianDay

Skip the hugging. John Hillcoat's deeply unpleasant debut Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (1988) is based on the book In the Belly of the Beast (1981), a collection of excerpts of letters between prisoner Jack Henry Abbott and author Norman Mailer. True to the book's format, Ghosts consists of disjointed vignettes of monologues, #CCTV footage, title cards, and prisoners' phone calls. For the last 37 months, these filters inform the observer, the hypermodern #supermax Central Industrial Prison has been in permanent lockdown. The cast, a mix of professional actors and ex-cons, and the location, a clean factory-style hangar in the middle of the Australian desert, underscore the underlying raw brutality of the unfolding events.

The #industrial soundtrack is by Bad Seeds Nick Cave (co-writer and starring as Maynard), Mick Harvey, and Blixa Bargeld from when they were still closer to being birthday boys than morose crooners.

#film #cinema #Australia #crime #prison #PrisonSystem #SciFi #BookAdaptation #prisoners #JackHenryAbbott #NormanMailer #NickCave #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @bales1181 @film https://letterboxd.com/12pt9/list/bales2023filmchallenge/

“The cop tries to solve his violence by blanketing it with a uniform. That is virtually a commonplace, but it explains why cops will put up with poor salary, public dislike, uncomfortable working conditions and a general sense of bad conscience. They know they are lucky, they know they are getting away with a successful solution to the criminality they can taste in their blood…he can tolerate little in the way of insult, and virtually no contradiction” #NormanMailer #TyreNichols #Memphis

“The cop tries to solve his violence by blanketing it with a uniform. That is virtually a commonplace, but it explains why cops will put up with poor salary, public dislike, uncomfortable working conditions and a general sense of bad conscience. They know they are lucky, they know they are getting away with a successful solution to the criminality they can taste in their blood…he can tolerate little in the way of insult, and virtually no contradiction” #NormanMailer #TyreNichols #Memphis

Winning small battles with honor

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

~ Norman Mailer

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Tendency to destroy masculinity

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

~ Norman Mailer

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