After Long Wait, Novelist James Salter Shares 'All That Is'

I once heard the late writer Norman Mailer say that he would know the apocalypse was near, When they play MUZAK during electrocutions. While it might not be a similar sign, the news today that billionaire Warren Buffet now has a Twitter account, ...

Click image to enlarge Norman Mailer's character timeline for Harlot's Ghost Just as we are fascinated by what goes on behind-the-scenes of good movies, we are equally intrigued by how great works of literature become what they are. Flavorwire has ...

When Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's was first published in 1958, the author's contemporary Norman Mailer called Capote the most perfect writer of my generation and suggested that he would not have changed two words in the book. It is now ...

Filed under: Shopping , Clothing & Accessories , Spending Eugene Gologursky/ for The Norman Mailer Center By Megan Willett Shopping addiction is in the national spotlight this week after "Friday Night Lights" author Buzz Bissinger revealed in ...

The Miami Dolphins are in a political two-minute drill: Using mailers, commercials and staged events, trying to motivate voters to approve the county's plan to renovate Sun Life Stadium. "The plan to modernize Sun Life Stadium would bring Super ...

Three candidates with diverse backgrounds are vying for the post of Norman mayor. Voters will decide April 2 between incumbent Cindy Rosenthal and challengers Tom Sherman and David Kempf. Rosenthal, 62, director of the Carl Albert Congressional ...

NCAA Inclusion Forum NCAA.org Aimee Mullins was born without fibulae and had both legs amputated below the knees as an infant, but athletics still has been a foundation in her life. Doctors initially thought Mullins would go through life maneuvering ...

Matthew Barney, Ancient Evenings: Ba Libretto, 2009. Ink, graphite and gold leaf on paperback copy of Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer, on carved salt base, in nylon and acrylic vitrine, 15 1/2 x 13 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches (39.4 x 34.9 x 37.5 cm).

Trailblazing Irish novelist Edna O'Brien delivers the memoir she once believed she'd never write. Edna O'Brien learned quite early on that writing books can be a dangerous business. She wrote her first novel, "The s," in three weeks. When it was ...