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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 [...]

John Buffalo Mailer, the pouty-lipped 31-year-old son of Norman and Norris Church Mailer, has mainly been a theater actor and playwright. (Hello Herman, which he wrote in college, recently underwent a revival in Los Angeles, with Sawyer Spielberg, son of Steven, playing the lead.) But recently, Mr. Mailer finished filming for Wall Street 2, the [...]

Liz Smith, in “Is the American Conservative (Magazine) Dead?” mentions Norris Church Mailer and her upcoming memoir from Random House:
Norris Church Mailer, looking beautiful as usual, was there telling me she has until July to finish her Random House memoir, A Ticket to the Circus, all about her life growing up in Arkansas and then [...]

Brad Lockwood, of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, sits down with John Buffalo Mailer for a chat. In “John Buffalo Mailer: A Brooklyn Jew with Cowboys in Arkansas,” John Buffalo discusses his experience as editor at High Times, his own writing, and his relationship with his father:
I try to focus on the work and not think [...]

The March 11, 2007 New York Times published an article on Mr. Mailer’s artist daughter Danielle Mailer: “A Woman With a Rich History, Making Art and Teaching Children”:
Danielle Mailer’s secrets are closely held. She weaves them into her art, into the mysterious long-limbed women she cuts out of Masonite and paints with acrylics. Black birds, [...]