In today’s Publishers Weekly, Edward Nawotka discusses the legacy of Norman Mailer and Larry Schiller’s mission to keep it alive. “Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive” looks at Schiller’s efforts in this area: launching the Norman Mailer Writing Awards, organizing the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, and enticing publishers to reissue or repackage some of Mailer’s lesser known works. One prize of $5,000 will go to a high school senior and a $10,000 award will go to a college student. Schiller hopes to expose Mailer’s name to as many young people as possible: “I want students to go out and discover who Norman Mailer was and is,” he said.
Read more at Publisher’s Weekly.
