Candid Snapshots of Norris Mailer

Authors

Norris Church Mailer, candid memories, humor and charisma, artistic versatility, mentorship and critique, illness and resilience

Jeffrey Michelson

Jeffrey Michelson, Norman Mailer’s houseboy and sparring partner, designer for the Beatles, creator of hardcore sex journal Puritan and frontman for English band Max & The Broadway Metal Choir, has written his first memoir. Mailer, who chose his Puritan interview with Michelson and Laura Bradley for Pieces and Pontifications, guided the book’s editing and wrote the Foreword. Norris Mailer, Legs McNeil, and Mike Lennon continued the guidance after Norman died. The S&M romance centers on the 1980s demimonde when Michelson lived a double life with lingerie model/call girl Laura Bradley, and includes part of an Esquire piece Mailer wrote about Michelson boxing with Ryan O’Neal. Mailer suggested giving the final draft to Bradley to add her side of the story. She agreed. The book will be out in 2012. Michelson lives on a horse ranch in the Poconos.