Lawrence Schiller writes: When I mention that I am here collaborating on a project with the American writer Norman Mailer, his face lights up. “Mailer!” he exclaims. “He is even in our KGB encyclopedia! This is a man who writes what he believes!” It doesn’t take much effort to get him to tell us the [...]
Mailer’s LEGO Vision of New York
by admin on 04. Sep, 2009 in In the Blogosphere
Mailer’s dream city uses the basic technique of modern architecture, a mass-produced prefabricated element throughout. Here it would be a box girder, 50 by 25 by 12 feet, inside which the construction, a single apartment, would be built. Yet with such a standardized unit (represented by Lego blocks in the model), Mailer shows that an [...]
Mailer Wins
by admin on 01. Apr, 2009 in In the Blogosphere
Norman Mailer has been inducted into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame, thanks in no little part to Society members, I’m sure. As you can see by the final scores, Mailer led the pack with 709 votes — 19 more than Walt Whitman. They state: Over 4,000 votes were cast! They have been tallied and it [...]
Mailer’s Final Gift
by admin on 05. Feb, 2009 in Heritage, In the Blogosphere
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 [...]
A Remembrance through the Review
by admin on 01. Feb, 2009 in In the Blogosphere, The Mailer Review
Carloyn Kellogg remembers Norman Mailer’s 86th birthday by lauding volume two of The Mailer Review. In “Norman Mailer Is Not 86 Today,” she quotes passages from the Review and writes: I’d be happy if authors today appeared as frequently in the news, were as important cultural voices, or tried to run, obnoxiously, for mayor of [...]
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Conference 2008 Announcement
07. Dec, 2007
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A Sampling of Letters
06. Oct, 2008
- Conference 2009: Hotel Information 16. Nov, 2008
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Mailer Passes at 84
10. Nov, 2007
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Brooklyn Hall of Fame
05. Dec, 2008
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Mike Lennon to the TLS
18. Aug, 2010
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Maggie Mailer’s “The Balloonists”
30. Jul, 2010
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Mailer on Provincetown
09. Jul, 2010
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William Buckley and NM, Part 3
07. Jul, 2010
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William Buckley and NM, Part 2
06. Jul, 2010
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