Norman Mailer

The literary side of Marilyn Monroe

2012-07-29 00:00:00

Since her death on Aug. 5, 1962, hundreds of books about Marilyn Monroe have been published by various writers, ranging from famous names such as Norman Mailer, Gloria Steinem and Joyce Carol Oates, to people who worked with her on movie sets. With so...

Book review: 'People Who Eat Darkness' is a masterful true crime tale

2012-06-03 00:00:00

People Who Eat Darkness The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished From the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up Richard Lloyd Parry FSG Originals: 464 pp., $16 paper Americans have an advantage in reading "People Who Eat...

Critic's Notebook: Under the influence of Hemingway

2011-07-03 00:00:00

For much of the 1980s, beginning when I was in college, I used to read a Hemingway book a year. The point was not self-improvement but rather a kind of exploration: What was it, exactly, about his writing that I'd missed? I had read "The Sun Also Rises"...

Maurice Sendak dies at 83, author of 'Where the Wild Things Are'

2012-05-09 00:00:00

He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time....

Barney Rosset dies at 89; publisher fought censorship

2012-02-23 00:00:00

Barney Rosset, the renegade founder of Grove Press who fought groundbreaking legal battles against censorship and introduced American readers to such provocative writers as Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco and Jean Genet, died Tuesday in...

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson's "Ed King"

2011-12-06 00:00:00

David Guterson has won 2011's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The tongue-in-cheek prize was presented at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. As in years past, the award-winning author was not in attendance. Guterson was awarded the prize for writing a marathon...

Vivid images and words on Marilyn Monroe

2011-12-12 00:00:00

The suite at the Hotel Bel-Air where Bert Stern photographed Marilyn Monroe for her famous "Last Sitting" in 1962 no longer exists. It is now part of the elegant La Prairie Spa — rather apropos, as the often difficult star was well known for...

The Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to David Guterson

2011-12-06 16:34:27

NYFW Fall 2012: Michael Bastian's wardrobe for the most-wanted list

2012-02-14 21:32:50

On Sunday: T.C. Boyle's basement, David Treuer and more

2012-04-15 16:35:52

Herzog: I'm pretty sure Jesus wouldn't favor capital punishment

2011-11-15 16:36:42

The most wanted used books, according to Bookfinder

2011-08-26 16:34:38

Still life of beautiful books in the Tribune Studio on Monday, Nov. 28, 2011.

2011-11-28 00:00:00

to play what could have been a subordinate role -- not Humbert Humbert, the French-lit professor obsessed by the title nymphet (Sue Lyon), but Quilty, the television playwright and minor celebrity who lures her away.

2010-04-19 14:38:44

Harry Benson's watchful eye By Monica Corcoran Social snubs and prickly rivalries, no doubt, swirled through the ballroom at New York 's Plaza Hotel in 1966 on the night Benson photographed Truman Capote 's notorious Black & White Ball. Tallulah Bankhead insulted Norman Mailer , Lauren Bacall

2009-05-19 16:04:34