https://jmichaellennon.com Archivist, Biographer, Educator Wed, 28 May 2014 19:24:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://jmichaellennon.com/provincetown-on-memorial-day/ Mon, 26 May 2014 13:33:18 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=1015 https://jmichaellennon.com/the-ten-best-norman-mailer-books/ Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:14:20 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=893 The Naked and the Dead. Over the next 60 years he wrote across a range of genres: biography and memoir, a column in the Village Voice, crime and sports narratives, poetry and short stories, several film scripts, and ten more novels of astounding variety.]]> https://jmichaellennon.com/why-mailer-matters-2/ Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:36:57 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=886 https://jmichaellennon.com/the-essential-jfk-books/ Sun, 24 Nov 2013 14:58:17 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=831 Oswald's Tale the first mentioned, but Mike is quoted: “Mailer disappointed numerous conspiracy theorists by coming to the conclusion that, as Mailer’s biographer J. Michael Lennon put it, Mailer chose ‘no conspiracy, and a complex Oswald; a man dealt a bad hand, in no way heroic, but bold, idealistic in a twisted way, and sympathetic.’”]]> https://jmichaellennon.com/house-photos/ Sun, 10 Nov 2013 20:40:03 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=611 https://jmichaellennon.com/75-at-75-j-michael-lennon-on-norman-mailer/ Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:07:38 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=731 The Time of Our Time. The defining event of the collection is the Cold War, and Mailer could have read from any number of excerpts, fictional and nonfictional, that unfold under its huge shadow, but because the Monica Lewinsky scandal was then being hotly debated, and the impeachment of President Clinton looming, Mailer read first from two recently published pieces about Clinton.]]> https://jmichaellennon.com/a-reading-of-don-juan-in-hell/ Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:39:27 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=761 Don Juan in Hell, in October 2002.]]> https://jmichaellennon.com/mailers-desk/ Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:37:01 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=607 https://jmichaellennon.com/the-10-best-norman-mailer-books/ Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:00:42 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=671 https://jmichaellennon.com/mike-on-mailer/ Sat, 12 Oct 2013 12:48:53 +0000 http://jmichaellennon.com/?p=668