Archive | September, 2009

Writers Colony and NCTE Announce Winners

By on September 23, 2009 in News

The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony have awarded the first annual Norman Mailer High School Nonfiction Writing Award to EMILY SWANAGIN of Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Alabama, and the first annual Norman Mailer College Nonfiction Writing Award to JOHN GILMORE of Utah State University, Logan, [...]

Read full story • Comments { 3 }
Mailer Self Portrait Auction

Mailer Self Portrait Auction

By on September 21, 2009 in Heritage

Bloomsbury Auctions will offer a self-portrait made by Norman Mailer in the sixties. The drawing is in the literary self-portrait collection of Burt Britton and was included in his 1976 book Self-Portrait. Britton writes: It was the mid-sixties, it was below ground in The Village Vanguard, and, as Old Blue Eyes would say, “It’s – [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Writers Colony Gala

By on September 20, 2009 in Information

The First Annual Norman Writers Colony Gala, the Prologue to the Seventh International Norman Mailer Society Conference (Oct. 23-25 in Washington, DC at the Library of Congress), will be held in New York City on October 20, 2009 at Cipriani, 42nd Street, New York.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Mailer Film Premiere

By on September 17, 2009 in Film

Norman Mailer’s first film, shot and edited in the months leading up to the publication of The Naked and the Dead, is having its world premiere at this years New York Film Festival as part of their acclaimed “Views From the Avant Garde” program. Restored and preserved by the Harry Ransom Center, The University of [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Conference 2009: Final Notification

By on September 11, 2009 in Conference

The 2009 Norman Mailer Society Conference in Washington, DC is fast approaching (October 23 and 24). This Final Notification will include the details you will need to know if you will be attending the 2009 Conference.

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Mailer Symposium

By on September 11, 2009 in Announcement

The Great American Play Series Stephan Morrow, Artistic Director and The Nuyorican Poets Café present A Symposium on Norman Mailer’s work in Film and Theater. “Did you love it or hate it? Norman would agree.” Hosted by The Nuyorican Poets Café. 236 E.3rd St. N.Y.C. (btwn Ave. B &C). (212) 505-8183. $7 admission Wednesday Evening, [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

2009 Brooklyn Book Festival

By on September 11, 2009 in Announcement

On Sunday, September 13, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Literary Council and Brooklyn Tourism will host the fourth annual free Brooklyn Book Festival, presenting over 220 authors and a literary marketplace of more than 150 booksellers and literary organizations. The program will include a tribute to Norman Mailer with Pete Hamill and Norris [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }

Mailer on Jungle Warfare

By on September 7, 2009 in Writing

Today, the Guardian has reprinted an excerpt from The Naked and the Dead that paints a graphic picture of the realities of jungle warfare: Hennessey froze his body. If I don’t move, I won’t get dirtier, he thought. He remembered Red and Wilson talking about “keeping a tight asshole”, and now he understood what they meant. [...]

Read full story • Comments { 0 }