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From the NMS President

By on April 9, 2012 in Family, Heritage

As many of you may know, John Buffalo Mailer has been waging a vigorous campaign to get the Village Voice, the publication his father helped found, to cease publishing sexually exploitive classified ads in BackPages.com, which the Voice owns. The response has been overwhelmingly favorable.

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Was Marilyn Monroe a Synesthete?

By on February 3, 2012 in In the Media

On p. 47 [in Marilyn Monroe: A Biography, Mike Lennon] found Mr. Mailer describing what can only be understood as Ms. Monroe’s synesthesia. In recounting her first husband, Jim Dougherty’s recollections of her, he said . . .

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John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements

By on January 13, 2012 in Family, News

John Mailer, son of Norman Mailer, joins 80,000 supporters of campaign on Change.org to ban sex ads that may feature minors on Village Voice-owned Backpage.com.

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Participatory Journalism of Norman Mailer

By on December 29, 2011 in Academia

Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported.

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Feminine Take on Masculine World

By on December 23, 2011 in Family, In the Media

Over the weekend at a gallery on West 27th Street, the young artist and onetime Playboy model Katrina Eugenia unveiled her first solo exhibition. The show itself has an epigram from Mr. Mailer’s “The Gospel According to the Son.”

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Why Mailer Matters: Three Reasons

By on November 16, 2011 in Biography, Heritage

Mailer was the most important public intellectual in the American literary world for over 30 years, and along with other figures such as William Buckley, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag, helped establish the creative writer as important a commentator as politicians, pundits and professors.

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Norman Mailer Apartment For Sale

By on April 18, 2011 in Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer did not want to let a little fear get the better of him. For Mr. Mailer, the proudly pugilistic giant of American literature, being scared of heights was unacceptable. Heck, he lived in Brooklyn Heights.

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Norris Church Mailer Memorial

Norris Church Mailer Memorial

By on December 8, 2010 in Family, News

A memorial for Norris Church Mailer will be held next spring in New York, and another in Provincetown. Times and places will be announced in early 2011. The family has asked that memorial contribution checks be made out to The Mailer Center, and mailed to The Mailer Center, 1115 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, NY [...]

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