Some Dirt in the Talk

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Norman Mailer Author

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improvisational filmmaking, existential cinema, obscenity and language, Hollywood critique, acting and performance theory, underground film movement

Abstract

This essay appeared in Existential Errands (Boston, Little Brown, 1972). It was first published in New American Review, No. 12 (August 1971) and reprinted with small changes a few months later in Maidstone: A Mystery (New York: New American Library, 1971). Reprinted with the permission of The Norman Mailer Estate.

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2026-03-14

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2009): Beyond Fiction

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Works by Norman Mailer

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