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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 [...]

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 [...]

Don’t forget to register for the upcoming Mailer Society conference in Washington, D.C.  The first day (October 23) will be held at the Library of the Congress in the Member’s Room, courtesy of Rep. Neil Abercrombie.  Day Two (October 24) is at the U.S. Capitol Building, again thanks to the Congressman.  Details and registrations forms [...]

The Mailer Society is pleased to announce that Christopher Ricks, keynote speaker at the 2008 Society conference in Provincetown, has been knighted as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours.  He was granted knighthood for his “services to scholarship.”  Congratulations to Sir Christopher!