Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Dwayne Raymond today recounts the time Esquire offered Norman Mailer the opportunity to travel briefly with Barack Obama. His article “When Mailer Almost Profiled Obama” appears in The Huffington Post and gives a bit of insight into how Mailer felt about our next president. Raymond writes:
I said to Norman that I thought Obama might have [...]

Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer’s hopes for a President Kennedy in his “Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” Bai begins “The Edge of Mystery” by referencing Mailer, the great political commentator of the twentieth century:
Weeks before the election of 1960, Norman Mailer, already an accomplished [...]

Consider this just a freindly reminder: there only 47 days left to vote on the first inductees to the Brooklyn Hall of Fame. Presently, NM leads the pack with 394 votes, but there’s still more than a month left to hold on to that lead. Go vote. I’ll post another reminder next month.

The Program Committee seeks proposals for papers and panel presentations during the Seventh Annual Conference of The Norman Mailer Society to be held in Washington, D.C.
Norman Mailer’s literary, political, and personal relationships to the dramatic forces of power in our nation’s capital prompt the theme of our 2009 conference: “Washington Intersections: Ideology, Culture, and Biography.”

Excerpted below are the first two pages of David Anshen’s “A New Politics of Form in Harlot’s Ghost” from The Mailer Review, Volume 2. Support the Society and the Review and purchasing a copy.
We’ll be publishing more excerpts over the next couple of weeks. Keep checking back.