Norman Mailer has been dead 2½ years, but his former mistress, Carole Mallory, and his widow, Norris Church Mailer, are still squabbling over his love life. Mallory packed Barnes & Noble on Broadway at 82nd Street the other night as she hawked her book, "Loving Mailer." Mallory questioned the claim in Norris' own memoir, "A Ticket to the Circus," that Norman continued to have sex with his wife while he was trysting with his mistress. "I doubt that Norris and Norman had sex while Norman and...
- 7/16/2010
- NYPost.com
Once upon a time, there were lions of literature who drank, threw fists, and stabbed their wives. Flashbulbs lit up their arrivals to fêtes, balls, and boxing matches. They skirmished with each other on television, alighted from jets in exotic locales, and mingled with heads of state. In the spaces between, they wrote books. Memoir, it’s often pointed out, is the French word for memory. And these days, when famous writers are generally only front-page news when they die, memory is more necessary than ever to conjure them again. Norris Church Mailer, née Barbara Jean Davis, was ...
- 4/29/2010
- avclub.com
Born in Arkansas, Norris Church Mailer would go on to become a painter, writer, and the wife and inspiration to Norman Mailer for more than 30 years. Mailer's colorful life is captured in her new memoir, A Ticket to the Circus, out this week from Random House. In this exclusive audio excerpt, Mailer remembers her brief romance with Bill Clinton and the first time she met her future husband. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 4/12/2010
- Vanity Fair
Latest: Late author Norman Mailer enjoyed sexual roleplay, according to his former mistress Carole Mallory.
The couple dated from 1983 to 1992 during Mailer's marriage to his sixth wife Norris Church.
Their sex life was exposed last month when Harvard University bought a stack of love letters the pair wrote to one another.
Now former model Mallory has spoken out to reveal exactly what Pulitzer Prize-winning Mailer's X-rated tastes included.
She says, "(Mailer) liked me to play dress up in erotic outfits, and we'd roleplay. He particularly liked to play the role of producer. The scene would be the casting couch."
Mallory, who boasts having bedded stars including Warren Beatty, Rod Stewart, Robert De Niro and Richard Gere, also claims Mailer was obsessed with details of her sexual past.
She adds, "He liked to hear the details of the sexual behaviour of stars with whom I'd had sex.
"Norman was turned on by hearing about my sexual encounters with movie stars... hearing about my sexcapades gave him great pleasure."
Mailer died last November, aged 84.
The couple dated from 1983 to 1992 during Mailer's marriage to his sixth wife Norris Church.
Their sex life was exposed last month when Harvard University bought a stack of love letters the pair wrote to one another.
Now former model Mallory has spoken out to reveal exactly what Pulitzer Prize-winning Mailer's X-rated tastes included.
She says, "(Mailer) liked me to play dress up in erotic outfits, and we'd roleplay. He particularly liked to play the role of producer. The scene would be the casting couch."
Mallory, who boasts having bedded stars including Warren Beatty, Rod Stewart, Robert De Niro and Richard Gere, also claims Mailer was obsessed with details of her sexual past.
She adds, "He liked to hear the details of the sexual behaviour of stars with whom I'd had sex.
"Norman was turned on by hearing about my sexual encounters with movie stars... hearing about my sexcapades gave him great pleasure."
Mailer died last November, aged 84.
- 5/5/2008
- WENN
Late author Norman Mailer was a wild man in bed, according to a stack of newly-discovered love letters written by his former mistress.
Model/actress Carole Mallory spilled details of the couple's sex life in notes compiled during their nearly 10-year affair, which took place during Mailer's marriage to his sixth wife Norris Church, and ended in 1992.
One candid 20-page document is entitled Making Love with Norman, and includes the line, "It's very steamy. Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing."
The papers have been bought by Mailer's former university Harvard. Financial details of the deal have not been released, although Mailer sold previous archives of his own to the University of Texas for $2.5 million (GBP1.25million) in 2005.
Mailer died last November, aged 84.
Model/actress Carole Mallory spilled details of the couple's sex life in notes compiled during their nearly 10-year affair, which took place during Mailer's marriage to his sixth wife Norris Church, and ended in 1992.
One candid 20-page document is entitled Making Love with Norman, and includes the line, "It's very steamy. Norman was a real man and he knew what he was doing."
The papers have been bought by Mailer's former university Harvard. Financial details of the deal have not been released, although Mailer sold previous archives of his own to the University of Texas for $2.5 million (GBP1.25million) in 2005.
Mailer died last November, aged 84.
- 4/23/2008
- WENN
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