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Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations Kindle Edition

by Robert J. Begiebing (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies

Norman Mailer at 100 celebrates the author’s centenary in 2023 and the seventy-fifth anniversary of the publication of his bestselling debut novel, The Naked and the Dead, by illustrating how Mailer remains a provocative presence in American letters. Novelist and Mailer scholar Robert J. Begiebing lays out how this polymath author’s work makes vital contributions to the larger American literary landscape, encompassing the debates of the nation’s founders, the traditions of Western Romanticism, and the juggernaut of twentieth-century modernism.

The book includes six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, and Begiebing’s own interview with Mailer from 1983. Each piece pairs Mailer with a critical interlocutor whose work offers telling revelations about his ideas and art, among them Ralph Waldo Emerson, Carl Jung, Kate Millett, and Joan Didion. By encouraging a reconsideration of his career from its beginnings to his final books in the early twenty-first century, Norman Mailer at 100 forges a new path toward appreciating the author’s achievements that underscores the extent to which his work can help us confront the challenges of today.

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“Writing with an unmatched understanding of the rich, deep, and illuminating parallels (and stubborn discordances) between the life and work of Norman Mailer and seven iconic writer-thinkers, Robert J. Begiebing has produced a magisterial work of permanent value, not only for Mailer’s admirers but for all who are alarmed at the gap between the millennial promise of American life and its current divided and parlous condition. Especially powerful in this regard is his brilliant evocation of Mailer and Whitman in conversation, and an equally delicious dialogue with Hemingway.” -- J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life

“This groundbreaking study is a crisp, cogent examination of the American legacy of Norman Mailer within the spheres of such towering figures as Hemingway, Didion, Whitman, and Emerson. This colloquy reveals timeless, essential discussions in the stream of seminal American intellectual and aesthetic forces.” -- Phillip Sipiora, editor of the Mailer Review

“Norman Mailer’s centennial in 2023 provides an occasion to pause for a meaningful consideration (or reconsideration) of the author’s role within American literary and cultural history. Robert Begiebing rises to that occasion in Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations, a collection that emphasizes Mailer’s far-reaching connections to other writers and intellectuals . . . .Begiebing’s preface provides a concise and persuasive overview of why Mailer matters in terms of a comprehensive and honest appraisal of American democracy, history, and identity. The preface is also a representative snapshot of the carefully balanced approach he will take toward Mailer’s legacy, as he immediately acknowledges that Mailer’s “flawed humanity” informs and sometimes conflicts with the author’s important contributions. Yet as Begiebing also emphasizes, Mailer is an undeniable part of our history, a prolific author committed to the “the untidy journey” of a writing life, whose intellectual provocations, original ideas, and pointed critiques of the world around him had an abiding impact on conversations about art and politics for decades. Begiebing’s collection is, in some ways, a study in how to intelligently and compassionately navigate the difficult task of taking seriously an author’s work even when we disagree with a portion of that author’s actions or beliefs.” -- Maggie McKinley, review from The Mailer Review --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

About the Author

Robert J. Begiebingis the author of nine previous books, including two studies of Norman Mailer and four novels. He is professor emeritus of English at Southern New Hampshire University. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09XN7DHJD
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (November 23, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 23, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2623 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 300 pages
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I've published seven books and more than thirty articles and stories. My fiction has been supported by grants from the Lila-Wallace Foundation and the New Hampshire Council for the Arts. In 2007, Governor John Lynch appointed me to the Council for the Arts. In 2009, I served both as one of the inaugural faculty members at the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony and as finalist judge for the Langum Prize. Currently, and am an emeritus professor at Southern NH University, where I founded both the undergraduate and graduate programs in creative writing. To see my complete biography and works, please link to www.begiebing.com.

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Edelweiss Spottswood
5.0 out of 5 stars good book
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2024
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Alex Hicks
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Explorations of the Genius of Norman Mailer
Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2023
This successor to Begiebing's 1980 "Acts of Regeneration : Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer" consolidates Begiebing as one of the very best, if nit tge brst, commentators on the work of Norman Mailer. Although Begiebing is obviously a fan of Mailer, the essays are typically balanced as well as insightful. Imaginative touches like rooting of Mailer's rebound from its early 1950s doldrums in his pot smoking retreat into self-exploration and the dialogue between Mailer and Walt Whitman enrich the compilation.

This is the best of the books about Mailer published this Winter of 2022-2023. It's far better than Richard Bradford's anti-Mailer hit job. It's better than J. M. Lennon's "Final Days" unless you're interested in a bunch of old Lennon essays and reviews and a Lennon memoir that come attached remora-like to a newly written reminiscence entitled "Final Days."
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John Dalziel
5.0 out of 5 stars MAILER CARNATE
Reviewed in Australia on January 16, 2023
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it is testimony to the enduring value and relevance of Norman Mailer's work that , considering the material published since his passing together with the wealth of critical assessments during his life, Robert Begiebing's book demonstrates the inexhaustible depths and permutations still to provide nourishment to both the academic and general reader.
While the recent collection of essays, Norman Mailer in Context edited by Maggie McKinley, can be highly valued as a splendid introduction to Mailer for readers who previously had little interest in or knowledge of his work, Norman Mailer AT 100 will be more appreciated, in my opinion, by the already familiar Mailer reader.
Submitting to a Maileresque spirit of anarchy, I succumbed to entering the book through the portal of the seventh essay which professor Begiebing presents as a transcript of a 1983 conversation between himself and Mailer, and which provides an introduction to Mailer's life and work partly in his own voice.
What initially might seem the conceit of providing two imagined Mailer dialogues with Hemingway and Whitman is well justified by the freshness of presentation of some of Mailer's more cogent, if familiar, ideas and tropes.
Returning to the first entry, Mailer and Hemingway, with its paralleling of A Farewell to Arms and The Naked and The Dead, I felt a rejuvenation of a many years long dormant interest in Hemingway.
Commemorating the birth of Norman Mailer in 1923, Robert Begiebing' book, together with Michael Lennon's almost simultaneous Mailer's Last Days and the imminent appearance of the 75th. anniversary edition of The Naked And The Dead with the inclusion of the letters, some of which are referred to by Begiebing, will hopefully augment Mailer's unique and peerless place in American literature and the history of his and our time.
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