We promote the study, preservation, and celebration of Norman Mailer’s life and work.
The Norman Mailer Society, a non-profit organization, was founded in 2003 to celebrate Norman Mailer, author of 40 books and the chronicler of the American Century. It has approximately 300 members and meets annually for three days for panels, papers, films and informal discussion about the life, work, and reputation of the late Mr. Mailer.
This Day in Mailerian History
Did You Know? (1990) when asked by Vanity Fair to name the qualities he most admired in women, Mailer answered: "Beauty, mystery, wit, and the inner superiority to be above political correctness." The remark captures his deliberately provocative public style in late-career magazine culture.
Source: Lennon, J. Michael. "Women." ↗
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Board member Olivia Rutigliano puts Mailer next to Dickens at CrimeReads — and lands on the thing the two men actually shared.
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For A&E, Adam Janos revisits the Jack Henry Abbott affair — the hardest case against Mailer’s romance with the outlaw.
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In one week Mailer lands on three very different best-of lists — for The Deer Park, The Naked and the Dead, and The Executioner’s Song.
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