Dear Mailerians!
Here we are entering the 8th year of The Norman Mailer Society. We proudly celebrate the success of seven outstanding conferences and three stellar issues of The Mailer Review. We could not have accomplished this without your support and the guidance of the Executive Board of The Norman Mailer Society. It is with enthusiasm [...]
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Membership Letter, Spring 2010
Writers Colony and NCTE Announce Winners
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony have awarded the first annual Norman Mailer High School Nonfiction Writing Award to EMILY SWANAGIN of Alabama School of Fine Arts, Birmingham, Alabama, and the first annual Norman Mailer College Nonfiction Writing Award to JOHN GILMORE of Utah State University, Logan, [...]
Richard Poirier Dies at 83
Richard Poirier, a prolific and populist cultural critic who founded a literary journal, Raritan: A Quarterly Review, and who was a founder of Library of America, the nonprofit publisher of American classics, died in Manhattan on Saturday. He wrote admiringly of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Frost, Norman Mailer and the Beatles, finding in all of them [...]