What a Creep: Norman Mailer (Controversial Writer & Creep)

What a Creep

Sonia Mansfield

Entertainment News, Comedy, News, True Crime

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What a Creep: Norman Mailer Season 14, Episode 3 Writer, Activist, & Wife-Stabber Norman Mailer has been in the news lately due to the fact his son John Buffalo Mailer who is partnering with Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon on a new trove of Mailer writings with the later writers’ ideas on what American democracy will look like in the future. The man died in 2007 at the age of 84 and lived as big a life as any (we will get into it all today.) Yet, Mailer’s longtime publisher Random House said they will not be associated with this work, instead, Skyhorse publishing (which worked with Woody Allen last year) decided to take on this new work. Why is Mailer potentially considered “canceled” so long after his death and living a life out loud with his machismo & boorishness? Today we will talk about Norman Mailer and why he is one of the most controversial (and creepy) writers & creators of the 20th century. Trigger warning: Domestic Violence & homophobia Sources: Norman Mailer Wikipedia Norman Mailer: The American Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, and Janet Flanner on Dick Cavett Show (1971) Town Bloody Hall (1979) New York Times Britannica New York Times Obituary New York Magazine The Airship Be sure to follow us on social media. But don’t follow us too closely … don’t be a creep about it! Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/CreepPod @CreepPod Facebook: Join the private group! Instagram @WhatACreepPodcast Visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/whatacreep Email: WhatACreepPodcast@gmail.com We’ve got merch here! https://whatacreeppodcast.threadless.com/# Our website is www.whatacreeppodcast.com Our logo was created by Claudia Gomez-Rodriguez. Follow her on Instagram @ClaudInCloud

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0:00.0	Welcome to What A Creep, the show with Margot Donnie and Sonia Mansfield talking about
0:06.1	creeps from the past to the present.
0:08.9	This is your quick guide to the biggest creeps, jerks, assholes, and losers the best of the
0:13.6	worst.
0:14.6	From two nice ladies who want the world to be a little less creepy.
0:27.3	Welcome back to What A Creep, this is Margot Donnie, Hugh and my cohort in creepitude
0:31.0	as always is the amazing Sonia Mansfield.
0:33.6	Hey Sonia.
0:34.6	Hello my friend.
0:36.1	Hello my friend.
0:38.5	We are the show that talks about creeps from the past to the present.
0:42.3	We end each show if you're new to us.
0:44.4	We end each episode with someone who is not a creep so you don't leave feeling that the
0:48.5	whole world is terrible and a big garbage pile on fire.
0:52.4	This week's creep is the basic bit of creeps.
0:55.8	He's just an asshole, it's nothing too terrible, nothing that's going to give you nightmares
1:01.0	or make you depressed for days, trust you.
1:05.5	You could find us on Facebook, we do have a basic Facebook page, but that's the place
1:09.5	where we will go to complain about our language.
1:12.0	Warning, we use salty language on this program, we also have a private, once again private
1:19.0	Facebook group, you have to answer three questions in order to get in.
1:23.4	If you listen to a few episodes, you should be able to do that.
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