J. Michael Lennon reads about his Grandmother’s dark closet, and her crow, Martha.” Wilkes University Creative Writing Residency, January 5, 2020.
Gallery: Book Release Party
From the book release party of Susan Mailer‘s In Another Place. Photos by Elizabeth Rainer (erainer [at] gmail [dot] com).
Mike Reviews Didion’s LOA Volume
“A new collection of Joan Didion’s work reminds us that she is her most memorable character.”
Mailer Tuchman Media Debuts Film And TV Slate Anchored By Norman Mailer Drama
Mailer Tuchman Media has launched with an initial slate of film and TV projects anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author/provocateur.
Mike Reviews “The Muse in Universe City” by Philip Brady
A blurb on the back cover of professor-publisher-poet Philip Brady’s new book, Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2019) describes it as a “high-spirited flash memoir.” This phrase could lead innocent readers to anticipate juicy tales of the author’s life as an American variety of Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim, a farouche […]
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Tom Wolfe and the mission to bring literature back into journalism
Tom Wolfe, the dashing, white-suited journalist-novelist with a Ph.D. from Yale in American civilization and a vocabulary equal to that of William F. Buckley, satirical skills not dissimilar to those of Kurt Vonnegut, H.L. Mencken and Mark Twain (not to mention Shakespeare’s rival, Ben Jonson, the gimlet-eyed satirist), a Southerner whose tradition-battering stories in the […]
Mike’s Interview with Hippocampus Magazine
Mike discusses the Library of America’s new volumes on Norman Mailer’s works of the sixties.
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