Norman Mailer is the kind of writer people now tend to look at and appraise by saying, “He could never get away with that today.” And maybe that’s true. In Mailer’s case, however, the that they’re ...

Director Jeff Zimbalist channels Mailer the writer, the celebrity, the failure, the boozing-and-drugging underworld-of-the-'50s searcher, the culture warrior, the literary comingler of fiction and ...