On Reading Mailer Too Young

Authors

  • Ross Klavan Wilkes University Author

Keywords:

The Naked and the Dead, reading and literary influence, youth and literary discovery, war fiction, masculinity in literature, popular culture and literature

Abstract

A description of the complications and effects of reading Norman Mailer when one is very young.

Author Biography

  • Ross Klavan, Wilkes University

    Ross Klavan recently finished the novel Schmuck and the screenplay for The Colony based on the book by John Bowers. His critically acclaimed original screenplay for the film Tigerland was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award and was released by 20th Century Fox, starring Colin Farrell. He has also written screenplays for InterMedia, Walden Media, Paramount, Miramax and TNT TV . A public and intense “conversation about writing” with Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer was both televised and published as Like Shaking Hands With God (Seven Stories Press.) As a performer, his voice has been heard in dozens of feature films including Revolutionary Road, Sometimes in April, Casino, In and Out, You Can Count On Me, as well as in numerous TV and radio commercials. He was a member of the Four Walls alternative art space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and teaches screenwriting in the MFA program at Wilkes University. Ross lives in NYC with the painter Mary Jones.

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Published

2026-03-25

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2010): Literary Warriors

Section

Articles