Norman Mailer

Powerful agent Andrew Wylie's plan to sell the e-book backlist of some of his best-known authors -- among them John Updike, Ralph Ellison and Philip Roth -- has come mostly undone. The e-book venture, Odyssey Editions, is a partnership with......

Although the phrase "beach reads" evokes fluffy page turners, we had conversations around the office this spring that led us to think that people might have used the summer break-from-routine to sink into books that were meaningful, or lasting. What......

Responding to a piece of pop-musical analysis by Camille Paglia carries risks not unlike those involved in publishing images of a burning Koran. She is a self-serving provocateur with a dogmatic world view, more interested in swatting down others'...

Time for Tom Wolfe to get his white suit dry-cleaned again, as the author will receive the National Book Foundation's 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, it was announced Wednesday. The medal, which is the foundation's...

The Orlando Film Festival, opening Nov. 3, has announced its lineup of films to go along with famous film guests of honor — Olympia Dukakis, Haley Joel Osment among them. I'm just now going through the onslaught of titles. They're showing “The...

What do hipsters and pornography have in common? As the saying goes, you know 'em when you see 'em. That was the joke moderator Christian Lorentzen used to kick off the eight-person discussion "Look at This F*ing Panel: A Sociological......

The first Orlando Film Festival movie (Nov. 3-7) to truly blow me away as I preview this year's offerings is this one, the actor Joseph Mantegna's brilliant, booze-and-blood soaked documentary on the two-fisted author, drinker, movie-maker, lover, brawler...

The Orlando Film Festival kicked off last night (not the only festival in the region whose opening night film wasn't all that), but it really gets underway at noon today, with a full slate of showings all afternoon and evening at the Plaza Cinema Cafe....

The Orlando Film Festival is off and running at the downtown Plaza Cinema Cafe. I ducked in there this afternoon to take the temperature of the festival, which runs through Sunday. For daytime screenings, at least, you don't even need to reserve a ticket....

There was talk amongst the film fans that “They've run out of beer. And they might not be able to get any more before the festival is over.” And there was the occasional packed showing. You walk around the Plaza Cinema Cafe and the Plaza...

Nov. 9, 1960: Norman Mailer’s Esquire article on the 1960 Democratic National Convention gets a frosty reaction from Matt Weinstock. CONFIDENTIAL TO "BITTERLY DISAPPOINTED" (in the office romance): After investing nine years in this man, I diagnose...

Daily Beast gobbles up Newsweek: The new and old media properties will merge, creating a Daily Week/Newsy Beast/Beastweek/something something politics. Looking forward to Time and the Huffington Post announcing their partnership as Huffington Time!...