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Mike interviewed on Dialogue.
The personification of cool, however, continued to be the hipster. Norman Mailer, a close reader of Anatole Broyard, was clearly influenced by Broyard’s essays on the subject, but made the connection to black culture even more explicit in “The White Negro.”
The Mailer grave on Memorial Day, by Stephen Borkowski. He writes:
Memento Mori
A long standing tradition in Provincetown is to place a flag on the graves of Veterans for Memorial Day.The large marker commemorating the fallen during the Civil War features the most prominent display with the square plot circled with flags about nine inches apart.
I volunteered to do a portion of the cemetery historically known as the “Protestant Section” to distinguish it from the largely Portuguese Catholic section across the road.There are the graves of many artists of many denominations. The grave of Norman Mailer is among them, with his wife Norris Church Mailer interred by his side. The still gleaming white marble festooned with mementos unintentionally stands out among the stark terrain.
I felt a certain pride as my gloved hands pushed the stake end about 6 inches into the soft earth to acknowledge his service during wartime. Broadly, their contributions to my life and to the local cultural landscape, over many decades, will not be easily forgotten.
Barnes & Nobel DePaul U, Chicago, IL 3/14/14
January 2014.
This is an audio recording of J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer, at Politics & Prose Bookstore on January 12, 2014.
Joe Donahue interviews Mike on the Round Table.
Two new books wrestle with Mailer’s myths and his legacy.