Welcome to the Norman Mailer Society.
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.
Latest
- Featured Spotlight Barbara Mailer Wasserman Writer, Sister of Norman Mailer dies at 98.
- Mailer’s Wake, Among the Masons Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s River of Fundament, their opera based on Ancient Evenings, returns to New York for an eight-hour screening in the Grand Lodge on November 14.
- Mailer and the Resident Punk Legs McNeil’s new memoir remembers a 1980 party at Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights home — and the night Woody Allen wouldn’t come out of the bathroom.
- Boz and Aquarius Board member Olivia Rutigliano puts Mailer next to Dickens at CrimeReads — and lands on the thing the two men actually shared.
- “Culture Is Worth a Little Risk” For A&E, Adam Janos revisits the Jack Henry Abbott affair — the hardest case against Mailer’s romance with the outlaw.
- From the Platoon to the Back Lot 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.
- Cutting Up Mailer Joel J Miller’s defense of readers who abuse their books opens with the worst offender of all.
- Sex Wars, and the Lost Art of the Fair Fight Felice Basbøll, at The Critic, reads Mailer and Germaine Greer as a model of intellectual combat we’ve since mislaid.
Coming Up in Mailerian History
October 14
The Deer Park (1955) Published on October 14, 1955, this novel reached print only after multiple publisher rejections. It later spent 15 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and peaked at no. 6.
More from 1955 in Works and Days
Source: Lennon, J. Michael and Lennon, Donna. Norman Mailer: Works and Days. Ed. Gerald R. Lucas. 2018.; Lennon, J. Michael. "Norman Mailer's Best Sellers." The Mailer Review 2.1 (2008): 270-271.
Publications
- Back Volumes of The Mailer Review Order print back volumes of The Mailer Review, singly or as a complete set
- Norman Mailer: Works and Days A comprehensive chronology of Norman Mailer’s life, publications, and collaborations
- Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 Centennial remembrances of Norman Mailer from the Society’s community
- The Mailer Review The Norman Mailer Society’s annual journal of scholarship, art, and archival discoveries
- The Norman Mailer Society Podcast Interviews, rare recordings, and conversations, 2015–2018