James Brookfield begins by reconsidering the literary merits of Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer’s second novel, is his article “Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter.” Brookfield positions his article as a response and commentary on Andras Gyorgy’s recent “The Postwar Novelist in Regression: Norman Mailer (1927-2007)” — mostly a commentary on the “socialist” Mailer. [...]
Mailer on Jungle Warfare
Today, the Guardian has reprinted an excerpt from The Naked and the Dead that paints a graphic picture of the realities of jungle warfare: Hennessey froze his body. If I don’t move, I won’t get dirtier, he thought. He remembered Red and Wilson talking about “keeping a tight asshole”, and now he understood what they meant. [...]
Taschen Readies $1,000 Apollo 11 Book
From Publishers Weekly: Famously edgy illustrated book publisher Taschen is about to release its biggest project since GOAT, the $5,000 homage to Muhammad Ali it published in 2004. Next month, Norman Mailer, MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 will go on sale for $1,000. The 350-page slipcased hardcover will be Mailer’s first posthumously published book, and [...]
Mailer Makes Another Esquire List
Norman Mailer’s 1960 nonfiction narrative “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” made the “The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine” list. From the introduction: Five years ago, we named “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” by Gay Talese, the greatest story Esquire ever published. Here, as we close out our 75th anniversary celebration, are [...]
Castle Wins Sex Prize
From The Guardian: When it comes to truly deplorable writing, not even death, it seems, lets you off the hook. This year’s Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award has gone to the late Norman Mailer for a description of oral sex in his final novel, The Castle in the Forest, in which a male [...]
Conference 2012
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Conference 2008 Announcement
December 7, 2007
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A Sampling of Letters
October 6, 2008
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Conference 2009: Hotel Information
November 16, 2008
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Preview: The Review 2011
September 2, 2011
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Mailer Passes at 84
November 10, 2007
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From the NMS President
April 9, 2012
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Norris Church Mailer Celebration
March 29, 2012
- Creative Non-Fiction Workshops March 21, 2012
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Reinventing a New Wheel: The Films of Norman Mailer
March 19, 2012
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Support for the Colony
March 19, 2012
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