https://jmichaellennon.com Archivist, Biographer, Educator Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://jmichaellennon.com/literary-lion-still-roars-in-norman-mailer-a-double-life/ Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:28:23 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=712 The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer spent the last half of the 20th Century giving everybody something to talk about. A prolific writer of fact and fiction (and some new forms he invented), Mailer inserted himself into the history, politics and literature of his time. J. Michael Lennon’s new, authorized biography, Norman Mailer, A Double Life, gives us a front-row seat for the non-stop action of a man who’s credo was, “Itch, you bastards, I hope I make you uncomfortable to the death.”]]>