Maidstone, Mailer, and Mashey: A Night at the Movies

Authors

Maidstone, Rip Torn altercation, film retrospection, Mailer family dynamics, authorial persona

A long-time friend of Norman Mailer recounts spending an evening at the Mailer residence.

Mashey Bernstein, University of California at Santa Barbara

Mashey Bernstein received his PhD for his dissertation on Norman Mailer from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he currently teaches in the Writing Program and the Film and Media Studies Department. He has written on various aspects of Mailer’s work for The Mailer Review, Studies in American-Jewish Literature, the London Jewish Chronicle, the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle and San Francisco Review of Books. He maintained close ties with Mailer from their initial meeting in 1975 until his passing.