Maggie McKinley wins the Robert F. Lucid Award for Norman Mailer in Context in 2021. Congratulations, Professor McKinley.
This volume offers new insight into the breadth of contexts that inform Norman Mailer's body of work.
In the Vital City piece “Bringing the Fun Back to Fun City: Zohran Mamdani, Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin” Gabriel S. Tennen draws a line connecting Mamdani’s off‑beat 2025 mayoral push with Mailer and Breslin’s 1969 “51st State” NYC campaign. The article highlights how Mailer and Breslin
In this interview with Alex Rollins Berg, Substack (June 2024), John Buffalo Mailer reflects on the life, work, and legacy of his father, Norman Mailer. Speaking with candor and warmth, he acknowledges the complexities of growing up in the shadow of a literary giant, while highlighting NM’s courage in
In his LitHub article, “Fighting for One’s Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots,” Anthony Giardina revisits Mailer’s 1959 work, Advertisements for Myself. Giardina focuses on Mailer's candid “Fourth Advertisement for Myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park," where Mailer narrates
In his Collider article “10 Novels To Read if You Love No Country for Old Men,” Luc Haasbroek recommends Mailer’s An American Dream as a compelling read for fans of Cormac McCarthy's novel. Haasbroek suggests that Mailer's work shares thematic elements with No Country for