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Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer's memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala celebrating his writers' colony. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Honoring Mailer's Legacy
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The inaugural Norman Mailer Writers Colony gala and benefit this Tuesday features a pride of literary lions, including Toni Morrison and Joan Didion. Colony co-founder Lawrence Schiller on the author's final wish.
Norman Mailer working in the writing studio on the third floor of his Provincetown, Massachusetts, home in 2003. Here, he is writing the work, Cast...
The Yes List
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The best movies, TV, music, and art picks for the weekend from The Daily Beast's culture editors.
The $1,000 Coffee Table Book
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On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Taschen is releasing an art book whose ambition is worthy of the original event itself. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Collins evaluates a mock-up of the Lunar Module cabin, 1963.
Bloody Brilliant
Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. He is presently completing a book about the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
James Toback's documentary Tyson, opening today, offers a harrowing look at the troubled boxer and finds something surprising: He knows what he did wrong.
Norman Mailer vs. Everyone
Norman Mailer was the author of more than 30 books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner’s Song, for which he won a second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot’s Ghost; Advertisements for Myself; and The Deer Park. He died in November 2007.
In this selection of letters, the legendary author pulls no punches in correspondences with James Jones, Cynthia Ozick, Larry L. King, and others. Then he hits back hard at New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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