Best Selling Books by Norman Mailer

Inside look at Republican & Democratic presidential nominating conventions of 1972.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy''s call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. And no one captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer.

Norman Mailer''s pro-JFK profile and seminal New Journalism showpiece "Superman Comes to the Supermarket," originally published in Esquire in 1960, now rediscovered in photo book form. Alongside the complete Mailer portrait of JFK as the "existential hero," see Kennedy''s campaign and personal life captured by such photojournalistic greats as...

With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society—and his own past—takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the “momentous catastrophe” of the Kennedy assassination. All the while, Hubbard is haunted by women who were loved by both his godfather and President Kennedy. Featuring a tapestry of unforgettable characters both real and imagined, Harlot’s Ghost is a panoramic achievement in the tradition of Tolstoy, Melville, and Balzac, a triumph of Mailer’s literary prowess. Praise for Harlot’s Ghost “[Norman Mailer is] the right man to exalt the history of the CIA into something better than history.”—Anthony Burgess, The Washington Post Book World “Elegantly written and filled with almost electric tension . . . When I returned from the world of Harlot’s Ghost to the present I wished to be enveloped again by Mailer’s imagination.”—Robert Wilson, USA Today “Immense, fascinating, and in large part brilliant.”—Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday “A towering creation . . . a fiction as real and as possible as actual history.”—The New York Times Praise for Norman Mailer “[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.”—The New York Times “A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.”—The New Yorker “Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure.”—The Washington Post “A devastatingly alive and original creative mind.”—Life “Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.”—The New York Review of Books “The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.”—Chicago Tribune “Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.”—The Cincinnati Post

An American novelist records his reaction to the delegates, the issues, and the events of the 1968 conventions

At the height of the McCarthy era, Norman Mailer proved his audacity by writing a novel about Socialism, a book that is at once an elegy and an indictment, sinuous moral thriller and an intellectual slugfest. BARBARY SHORE features a cast of people in a Brooklyn boarding house caught up in a spiral of domestic violence and raw emotion. Mike Lovett is a writer living among them, searching for a subject to write about and an identity to replace the one he lost to shell-shock and amnesia fighting the Nazis. Out of his efforts to make sense of the extraordinary behaviour of those around him, Lovett adopts an unexpected allegiance and inherits a forceful political personality... one that is capable of confronting the re-emergence of totalitarian regimes and the global conflicts they generate.

THE TIME OF OUR TIME is a selection of Mailer''s best work, chosen by Mailer himself, and ingeniously arranged as a literary retrospective. It is a masterly, boisterous portrait of our times, seen through the fiction and reportage of a great writer. Included are passages from THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, THE ARMIES OF THE NIGHT and THE EXECUTIONER''S SONG, as well as many of his other works and his best-known magazine pieces from Marilyn Monroe to Madonna. This giant omnibus is a testament to Mailer''s enormous energies, his vast curiosity, and his amazing talent and amounts almost to a self-chosen literary ''autobiography''.

The final previously unpublished work from two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the National Book Award, Norman Mailer. Norman Mailer is one of America''s most consequential public intellectuals of the postwar period. He cofounded the Village Voice, and he was the author of twelve novels, among them The Naked and the Dead and Harlot’s Ghost, as well as numerous works of nonfiction. He is truly one of the giants of American literature. Lipton''s, A Marijuana Journal is the only work by Norman Mailer that has not been published previously. Written between 1954-55, from December to March, it contains many ideas he would develop in his later work. The journal includes daily musings, as well as thoughts profound. It is a must-read for Norman Mailer scholars, as well as literature professors. Lipton’s, A Marijuana Journal also includes never before published letters between Robert Lindner (author of Rebel Without a Cause, Prescription for a Reberllion, and The 50 Minute Hour) and Norman Mailer. They introduce the reader to Mailer’s state of mind during the time he was writing the journal and to the unique relationship he had with Dr. Lindner.

Of all the most iconic figures covered by Norman Mailer in his esteemed career—including Muhammad Ali, Marilyn Monroe, Gary Gilmore, Lee Harvey Oswald, Pablo Picasso—no one fascinated him more than John F. Kennedy, whose presidential campaign was the subject of Mailer’s first foray into political journalism. First published in Esquire’s November 1960 issue, the essay, which is widely considered a key turning point in the dawn of New Journalism, is on the magazine’s list of its 7 greatest stories ever published and is forever enshrined in journalism history. This book revisits the seminal text with a broad selection of photographs and memorabilia. Fans of both Mailer and JFK will rejoice in this book, whose release coincides with the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination.

Norman Mailer a, au fil des années, réalisé un, très considérable travail de reporter pour divers grands journaux et revues américains. C''est le fruit de ce travail que nous découvrons aujourd''hui dans ce nouveau livre. Mailer, journaliste/essayiste/polémiste, dresse ici un puissant portrait de l''Amérique politique, de 1960 à 1999, de Kennedy à Clinton, en passant par Nixon et le Watergate. Ces pages, servies par une écriture superbe, un style foisonnant et volontiers impressionniste, dépassent largement le caractère ponctuel des événements rapportés (conventions des partis républicain et démocrate en 1963, en 1968 les émeutes de Chicago...) En contrepoint à ces reportages, nous redécouvrons dans plusieurs textes brefs ou extraits d''ouvrages quelques-unes des magnifiques obsessions de l''auteur : la boxe et la corrida, sans oublier l''exécration de certains aspects du monde modernes... Plusieurs préfaces, articles divers, critiques de livres et portraits complètent cet ensemble (hommage à Salman Rushdie, lettre ouverte à Fidel Castro, rencontres avec Carter, Doyle, Bush... ) Ces " essais, reportages et ruminations ", tous inédits en français, composent un extraordinaire portrait historique, social et culturel de l''Amérique contemporaine. Ils révèlent un Norman Mailer inattendu, romancier n''hésitant pas à aller " au charbon ", à se frotter à la réalité multiple et changeante de son pays. Ce livre apporte un précieux complément à des classiques maileriens d''investigation tels que Les Années de la nuit, Le Chant du bourreau, ou Oswald, un mystère américain. " Aucun écrivain contemporain ne pourrait égaler la variété de ce livre, sa folle énergie, sa violence et sa force spirituelles. " New Yorker " On cherchera en vain parmi les journalistes travaillant actuellement un écrivain doté d''un ensemble de textes ayant la cohérence et l''audace de cet ouvrage. " New York Times Book Review " Ce livre contient certaines des pages de prose les plus excitantes et exubérantes de ce siècle. " The Telegraph " La grandeur de Mailer n''est plus à prouver. " Independent On Sunday " Mailer a incarné le "Nouveau journalisme" avant même que Tom Wolfe n''invente le terme. " Daily Telegraph " Il n''est pas exagéré de dire que Mailer a révolutionné l''art du reportage. " Times Literary Supplement