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A DEEPLY PERSONAL, WARM, FUNNY, AND REVEALING MEMOIR FROM NORRIS CHURCH MAILER
“A Ticket to the Circus is a remarkable memoir—blunt, funny, extraordinarily candid and self-aware; deeply moving, as it is wonderfully entertaining; above all, a memorable double portrait of two very unusual people, a couple for whom the term meant for each other is wholly [...]

British GQ magazine and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony announce a new annual competition for non-fiction writing.
We are calling for submissions of published and unpublished work completed in the twelve months from May 1 2009. Entries can be on any topic but must be no less than 2,000 and no more than 4,000 words long [...]

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.

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, Sept.23, 2009  from  6:30PM – 9 [...]

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 [...]