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  • May 2008

    • Mistress Recalls Mailer Sex Roles

      New York Post  |  May 5, 08 11:58 AM CDT

      Mistress Recalls Mailer Sex Roles

      (Newser) - Norman Mailer’s fanciful sex life is giving his best-selling books a run for their money as his legacy, the New York Post reports. Mailer's longtime lover Carole Mallory—who recently hawked her X-rated writings about Mailer's sexual experimentation to Harvard—says the Pulitzer Prize-winner "liked me to dress up in erotic outfits, and we'd role play." His favorites revolved around Hollywood. More »

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      sex  • affair  • Harvard  • Norman Mailer  • Carole Mallory

  • April 2008

    • Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      Times (UK)  |  Apr 27, 08 5:52 AM CDT

      Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

      (Newser) - One of Norman Mailer’s mistresses suspected the writer of having a gay affair—or perhaps several, reports the Times of London. Mailer also asked lover Carole Mallory to have three-way sex with a gay man, according to her notes in archives recently purchased by Harvard University. One of the men Mallory suspected of being romantically linked to Mailer, close friend Rick Stratton, said there was “no truth to” speculation that the writer had gay affairs. More »

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      book  • affair  • author  • homosexual  • Norman Mailer  • Carole Mallory

    • Harvard Buys Mailer Mistress' Lusty Litany

      New York Post  |  Apr 23, 08 3:51 PM CDT

      Harvard Buys Mailer Mistress' Lusty Litany

      (Newser) - Harvard missed out on acquiring the papers of late novelist Norman Mailer, but it's bought the next-best thing—those of his longtime mistress Carole Mallory, the New York Post reports. The package includes a 20-page sex scene from an unpublished memoir called Making Love With Norman. "Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing," Mallory says. More »

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      Harvard  • Norman Mailer  • Carole Mallory

  • November 2007

    • Late Mailer Wins 'Bad Sex' Prize

      Bloomberg  |  Nov 28, 07 8:41 AM CST

      Late Mailer Wins 'Bad Sex' Prize

      (Newser) - Norman Mailer was garlanded with prizes throughout his career, but one posthumous honor might have made him chuckle: a British magazine has bestowed on him its annual award for bad sex in fiction. Mailer's last novel, The Castle in the Forest , imagines the youth of Adolf Hitler, complete with long, incestuous sex scenes including phrases like "her most unmentionable part" and "his old battering ram." More »

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    • Literary Bull Blundered and Thrived

      Time  |  Nov 10, 07 7:33 PM CST

      Literary Bull Blundered and Thrived

      (Newser) - Egotist, chauvinist, brawler, Mailer battled "a culture subsiding into room temperature," Time says. His work vented "his own inner conditions" as he lurched from fame at age 25 to so-so books to his "brilliant" Armies of the Night in 1968. He made big gaffes—blaming patients for their cancer, directing bad films, helping parole a murderer—but "something important was lost" when he died today. “Norman come back," says Time . "Nothing is forgiven.” More »

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      obituary  • literature  • writer  • Norman Mailer  • 1960s

    • Norman Mailer Dead at 84

      New York Times  |  Nov 10, 07 6:45 AM CST

      Norman Mailer Dead at 84

      (Newser) - Norman Mailer, one of the 20th century's literary lions and a pioneer of the genre that came to be known as New Journalism, died this morning. He was 84. His career spanned 6 decades and more than 40 books, from 1948's The Naked and the Dead to this year's The Castle in the Forest, and he was nearly as well known for his colorful personal life. More »

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      obituary  • Norman Mailer

  • October 2007

    • Norman Mailer Back in Hospital

      New York Post  |  Oct 17, 07 12:43 PM CDT

      Norman Mailer Back in Hospital

      (Newser) - Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer was hospitalized yesterday in New York for respiratory ailments; his ex-wife said surgery had succeeded in removing scar tissue after a lung collapse—but she worried that he’s “not in very good shape.” It's the second recent scare for the 84-year-old literary lion, hospitalized for asthma over Labor Day, the New York Post reports. More »

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      literature  • asthma  • Norman Mailer  • Pulitzer Prize

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