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: The American
Movie Trailer via AuthorScoop. From their description on YouTube: A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary goes beyond the Mailer of the book shelves and NY Times best seller list to Mailer the social critic, family man, filmmaker, and lover. [...]
Mornings with Mailer
A RECOLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP by DWAYNE RAYMOND Published to Coincide with What Would Have Been Norman Mailer’s 87th Birthday — An Intimate Portrait of the Great Writer’s Final Years In Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship (Harper Perennial; Trade Paperback Original; On Sale: January 26, 2010; $13.99), writer Dwayne Raymond reflects upon the intimate [...]
Mailer Self Portrait Auction
Bloomsbury Auctions will offer a self-portrait made by Norman Mailer in the sixties. The drawing is in the literary self-portrait collection of Burt Britton and was included in his 1976 book Self-Portrait. Britton writes: It was the mid-sixties, it was below ground in The Village Vanguard, and, as Old Blue Eyes would say, “It’s – [...]
Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive
In today’s Publishers Weekly, Edward Nawotka discusses the legacy of Norman Mailer and Larry Schiller’s mission to keep it alive. “Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive” looks at Schiller’s efforts in this area: launching the Norman Mailer Writing Awards, organizing the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, and enticing publishers to reissue or repackage some of Mailer’s lesser known [...]
Mailer Writing Awards Announced
The new Mailer writing awards were announced on February 23 at a Washington, D.C. press conference, co-sponsored by The Mailer Estate and the National Council of Teachers of English. For more information, see the attached brochure (after the jump) or the Writers Colony Web Site.
Mailer’s Final Gift
In The Daily Beast, Lawrence Schiller writes about Norman Mailer’s literacy legacy and the founding of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at his home in Provincetown, MA. The article is as much about Mailer’s relationship with his friends and family and the house in Provincetown where they met in Mailer’s waning days as it is [...]
Still at War
I a recent article in the Media Monitors Network, Norman Solomon asks “Why Are We Still at War?” He analyzes the pointlessness of fighting a “war on terror,” supporting his assertion with quotations by Joan Didion and Norman Mailer. He writes: It may be profoundly true that we are not red states and blue states, [...]
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Conference 2008 Announcement
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A Sampling of Letters
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Conference 2009: Hotel Information
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Preview: The Review 2011
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Mailer Passes at 84
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Was Marilyn Monroe a Synesthete?
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Conference 2012: Call for Papers
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Norman Mailer: Playboy Magazine Heavyweight
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John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements
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Participatory Journalism of Norman Mailer
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