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Village Voice Runs Child Sex Ads: Protesters

Matt Cantor — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:04:05 CDT

Protesters marched to the offices of the Village Voice in New York yesterday, slamming the weekly paper for allegedly running ads for child prostitutes in its adult classified section, Backpage.com. Among the hundred demonstrators was the son of Norman Mailer, the paper's founder. "This was once a progressive paper,...

10 Failed Celeb Political Bids

Evann Gastaldo — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:47:00 CDT

Wyclef Jean is running for president of Haiti , but already things aren’t going well for the controversy-plagued singer. If he loses, he won’t be the first celebrity to suffer a failed political campaign: Time lists 10 others: Norman Mailer : Despite being a literary giant, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book...

Hipsters 101: Their History, Bleak Future

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:12:42 CDT

Hipsters. They “sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay”; they “sport cowboy hats and berets”; they’re “the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer.” But they’re certainly not a new phenomenon, writes Dan Fletcher for Time . The first jazz-loving hipsters emerged in the...

Scammer: I Forged Author Signatures

Ambreen Ali — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:10:01 CDT

A man who made more than $300,000 by selling "autographed" first editions of books that actually contained forged signatures pleaded guilty to fraud in a Philadelphia court today. Forrest Smith's offerings on eBay included books by Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Anne Rice, Tom Wolfe, and Tom Clancy, the Los...

This Year's Bad-Sex Winners

Amelia Atlas — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:00:38 CST

Ten authors have joined the distinguished ranks of such literary luminaries as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe—as nominees for the annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award. The dubious honor singles out “otherwise sound literary” fiction that includes “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrassing or redundant passages of a sexual nature,...

Mistress Recalls Mailer Sex Roles

Elizabeth Wolff — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:58:59 CDT

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...

Lover Suspected Mailer of Gay Sex

Matt Cantor — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:52:07 CDT

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...

Harvard Buys Mailer Mistress' Lusty Litany

Sam Gale Rosen — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 15:51:18 CDT

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...

Late Mailer Wins 'Bad Sex' Prize

Jason Farago — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:41:35 CST

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,...