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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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Why Mailer Matters: Three Reasons

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

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.  [...]

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Mornings with Mailer

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 [...]

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Mailer Self Portrait Auction

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 – [...]

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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 [...]

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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.

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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 [...]

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