Meeting Mailer

Authors

Maidstone, literary influence, experimental pedagogy, 1970s counterculture, modernist literature

A professor recounts the events surrounding his meeting with Norman Mailer at American University in 1972.

Kermit Moyer, American University

Kermit Moyer is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald and the films of Robert Altman as well as of Tumbling (University of Illinois Press, 1988), a collection of short stories. His stories have appeared in such literary journals as The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Hudson Review. The Permanent Press is scheduled to publish his collection of linked stories, The Chester Chronicles, in February 2010.