Read more Norman Mailer stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/15149/norman-mailer.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 13:02:15 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/65574/hipsters-101-their-history-bleak-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHipsters. 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...http://www.newser.com/story/65574/hipsters-101-their-history-bleak-future.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 29 Jul 2009 11:12:42 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/59617/scammer-i-forged-author-signatures.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 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...http://www.newser.com/story/59617/scammer-i-forged-author-signatures.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 20 May 2009 15:10:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/43241/this-years-bad-sex-winners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTen 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,...http://www.newser.com/story/43241/this-years-bad-sex-winners.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 22 Nov 2008 7:00:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/26569/mistress-recalls-mailer-sex-roles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNorman 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...http://www.newser.com/story/26569/mistress-recalls-mailer-sex-roles.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 05 May 2008 11:58:59 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25807/lover-suspected-mailer-of-gay-sex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne 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...http://www.newser.com/story/25807/lover-suspected-mailer-of-gay-sex.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 27 Apr 2008 5:52:07 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/25418/harvard-buys-mailer-mistress-lusty-litany.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHarvard 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...http://www.newser.com/story/25418/harvard-buys-mailer-mistress-lusty-litany.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 23 Apr 2008 15:51:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/12737/late-mailer-wins-bad-sex-prize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNorman 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,...http://www.newser.com/story/12737/late-mailer-wins-bad-sex-prize.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 28 Nov 2007 8:41:35 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/11416/literary-bull-blundered-and-thrived.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagEgotist, 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...http://www.newser.com/story/11416/literary-bull-blundered-and-thrived.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 10 Nov 2007 19:33:58 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/11401/norman-mailer-dead-at-84.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNorman 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...http://www.newser.com/story/11401/norman-mailer-dead-at-84.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 10 Nov 2007 6:45:45 CST