Eckermann’s “Goethe” has often been compared with Boswell’s “The Life of Samuel Johnson.” In both cases, an ambitious younger writer attaches himself to an aging literary genius. We are privileged to ...

Though he was born in New Jersey, Norman Mailer would often adopt a Texas accent while talking to colleagues at the Village Voice, according to Richard Bradford’s "Tough Guy: The Life of Norman Mailer ...

FILE - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer attends a lecture at the New York Public Library on June 27, 2007, in New York. An anthology of the late Mailer's writing that Random House allegedly ...

Norman Mailer, the irascible giant of American letters, died on Saturday at the age of 84. Mailer burst upon the literary scene in 1948 with his widely acclaimed World War II novel The Naked and the ...

The independent press Skyhorse acquired a new book by the late writer after Random House, his longtime publisher, declined to make an offer. By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris Last year, in ...

So long as the entire exercise of criticism is not exhausted by moralizing at the past, however, it can make sense to be at least a little horrified by what someone once did, said, or thought. Before ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — An anthology of the late ...