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Awards Benefit

By on August 22, 2007 in Announcement

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is presenting the Fifth Distinguished Service in the Arts Awards Benefit at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge on Monday, November 5, 2007. The Gilbert Franklin Medal will be presented to Norman Mailer, Michael Mazur and Ted Landsmark at a festive cocktail reception and gala dinner, including a silent [...]

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Announcing the Mailer Review

By on May 18, 2007 in Announcement, The Mailer Review

At the fourth annual conference in Provincetown (October 12-14, 2006), the membership voted to establish The Mailer Review, co-sponsored by the University of South Florida. NMS Board member Phillip Sipiora is the founding editor of the Review, which will publish its inaugural issue in October, 2007. It is the Society’s intention that the Review be [...]

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Mr. Mailer Receives Hadada Award

By on April 2, 2007 in Events, In the Media, Norman Mailer

On April 23, 2007, Mr. Mailer received the Hadada Award from The Paris Review in a New York ceremony. Novelist E.L. Doctorow, a longtime friend of Mr. Mailer’s, and his editor for An American Dream (1965), presented the award, which was created by the late editor of the Review, George Plimpton. New York Mayor Michael [...]

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E.L. Doctorow to Give Keynote at 2005 Conference

By on September 19, 2005 in Announcement, Conference

Edgar Lawrence Doctorow, the distinguished novelist, was born in New York City in 1931. He is a 1952 graduate of Kenyon College and took graduate courses in English at Columbia University. He was senior editor for New American Library from 1959-1964 and editor-in-chief at Dial Press from 1964-1969. He has taught at several major universities [...]

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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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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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