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Larry Schiller Featured in the Times

Hillary Rose of the Times Online chats with Larry Schiller about his photography and his remarkable life experiences: He was taught needlepoint by Joanne Woodward and taken to the races by Jack Lemmon and Walther Matthau, who taught him how to bet. He sat in Marilyn Monroe’s T-Bird, drinking Dom Pérignon and watching as she [...]

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José Torres Dies at 72

José Torres Dies at 72

José Torres, former light heavyweight boxing champion and a close friend of the Mailer family, died of a heart attack on January 19 at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Mailer wrote the preface to Torres’s 1971 biography of Muhammad Ali, Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story, and boxed with him on the [...]

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Conference 2009: Call for Paper Abstracts

The Program Committee seeks proposals for papers and panel presentations during the Seventh Annual Conference of The Norman Mailer Society to be held in Washington, D.C. Norman Mailer’s literary, political, and personal relationships to the dramatic forces of power in our nation’s capital prompt the theme of our 2009 conference: “Washington Intersections: Ideology, Culture, and [...]

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Writers Colony Mentioned

Wicked Local Provincetown has an article today about the spring opening of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. The article offers background information and details about upcoming workshops, including one led by Society president J. Michael Lennon: The next workshop is led by J. Michael Lennon May 31 through June 6; he will teach the writing [...]

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New Flickr Group

New Flickr Group

As you know, the Society has it’s own Flickr account where we post photos of Norman Mailer and Society conferences. Now we have our own group. The benefit of having a group is that anyone with a Flickr account can post photos to this group. However, you do not have to be a member of [...]

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Two Announcements

From President J. Michael Lennon: I am happy to announce that Professor Camille Paglia will be the keynote luncheon speaker at the Washington conference. She will speak on Friday, October 23. More details to follow. Also, we had a cancellation on one of the leather-bound, signed (Kennedy, DeLillo, Doctorow and Gunter Grass) copy of the [...]

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Mailer in “Doc” Documentary

Mailer in “Doc” Documentary

Norman Mailer once described Doc Humes, novelist and cultural figure, as one of the few people I have ever met who was essentially, at bottom, more vain, more intellectually arrogant, than I was. “Doc” is a PBS documentary premiering on December 9 by Immy Humes about her father Harold L. “Doc” Humes. He was a [...]

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NM Writers Colony

Today, the Cape Cod Times discusses the upcoming launch of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA. The Director of the Colony’s Executive Board, Larry Schiller, comments: “The colony was one of Mailer’s dying wishes . . . And it’s the best way to preserve his legacy.” “All we can do is inspire people,” [...]

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