Norris Church Mailer (born Barbara Jean Davis in 1949) died at her home in Brooklyn Heights, New York at 10:55 AM on November 21, 2010. At her bedside were her two sons, Matthew Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer. Besides her two sons, she is survived by her mother, Gaynell Davis, two grandchildren, Mattie James and [...]
Norris Church Mailer 1949-2010
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Norris Church Mailer, widow of Norman Mailer, who died November 21, 2010, after a long and valiant struggle with cancer. Norris was many things to many people. She was an unusually gifted and talented writer, an insightful observer of the human condition, both as [...]
2010 Conference Photos
I have just posted my photos from this year’s conference in Sarasota, FL. I link to the 2010 gallery off of my blog, and I also provide links to my photos of the events from the last five years. Please let me know if I got any information incorrect. Also, if you want to order [...]
Pamuk Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s first Nobel laureate in literature, was honored on Tuesday by the Norman Mailer Center in Massachusetts with its Lifetime Achievement Award. The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony presented Pamuk with the 2010 Norman Mailer Lifetime Achievement Prize during the center’s annual benefit gala in New York, news agencies [...]
Mailer in Creative Nonfiction
The latest issue of CREATIVE NONFICTION magazine (issue 39, fall 2010) features a special section on Mailer: an excerpt from THE EXECUTIONER’S SONG, and comments on Mailer’s nonfiction from Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lee Gutkind and J. Michael Lennon. There is also a notice about Larry Schiller and the Norman Mailer Colony.
Mike Lennon to the TLS
I don’t wish to prolong the discussion about Norman Mailer’s wartime experience, but as his authorized biographer (forthcoming, Simon and Schuster), I believe I can clarify Clive James’s comments on the matter in his recent letter (July 16). During the last year of the Pacific war, Mailer served in several capacities in the 112th Regimental [...]
Maggie Mailer’s “The Balloonists”
At the Ferrin Gallery Exhibition: July 31st through September 18th Reception: Saturday, July 31st from 4-6pm The paintings in Maggie Mailer’s solo show, The Balloonists present a post apocalyptic world whose beings live above the earth suspended by balloons. Read more.
Mailer on Provincetown
“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came [...]
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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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