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Mailer’s Vertical City

By on August 31, 2005 in Announcement, Society

A Raffle to Benefit The Norman Mailer Society Background: In 1965, Norman Mailer and two friends, Eldred Mowery and Charlie Brown, spent three weeks assembling a seven-foot high structure out of thousands of Lego Blocks. Titled “Vertical City,” the construction, Mailer said, “was very much opposed to LeCorbusier; I kept thinking of Mont-Saint-Michel.” He goes [...]

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Mailer to Speak in Cambridge

By on June 9, 2005 in Announcement, Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer will be the keynote speaker at the 11th annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics on November 5, 2005 at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge, MA.

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Mailer in The Nation

By on June 7, 2005 in In the Media, Norman Mailer

The June 6, 2005 issue of The Nation reprints an essay by Mailer from a French periodical on the theological views of the late French philospher, Jean-Paul Sarte: “On Satre’s God Problem.” Adam Shatz introduces the essay: This year marks the centenary of the birth of Jean-Paul Sartre, the great philosopher of existentialism and a [...]

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Our Youngest Member

By on May 10, 2005 in Members

The youngest member of The Norman Mailer Society is Tyler Owen Walter, grandson of Treasurer David Light.

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Mailer Speaks in Austin

By on April 29, 2005 in In the Media, Norman Mailer

Even as researchers begin organizing his legacy, author Norman Mailer continues to weigh in on everything from the Iraq war to capital punishment. Mailer, 82, spoke Thursday at the University of Texas, which earlier this week announced it had purchased the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist’s archive for $2.5 million. Mailer, whose works include “The Naked and [...]

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Call for Papers: Conference 2005

By on April 10, 2005 in Announcement, Conference

The programming committee is looking for good proposals for panel presentations during this year’s third annual conference of the Norman Mailer Society, to be held in Provincetown, MA, in November of 2005. Please send your proposals (a 600-800 word abstract) or your complete paper (up to ten pages, double spaced) by June 10, 2005, to [...]

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Call for Contributers on Mailer

By on October 13, 2004 in Announcement

Abby H. P. Werlock is preparing a 2-volume Companion to the American Novel for Facts on File, sequel to the award-winning The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, and still has openings for essays on specific American fiction titles. She is particularly interested in entries on Norman Mailer’s An American Dream, Executioner’s [...]

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Conference 2004

By on September 23, 2004 in Announcement, Conference

The 2004 Norman Mailer Society Meeting / Conference to be held in Provincetown, Massachusetts on November 12 and 13 is fast approaching. To mark the 20th Anniversary of Tough Guys Don’t Dance and the 25th Anniversary of The Executioner’s Song, discussions of these two books will be the heart of the conference. Mr. Lawrence Schiller, [...]

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