What the Society noticed about Mailer in 2005: books, films, articles, events, and the people around him. Each item links to its source where one survives.
June
- 7 — The Nation reprints Mailer’s essay on Sartre and God for the philosopher’s centenary, with an introduction by Adam Shatz: “On Sartre’s God Problem.”
- 9 — Mailer is announced as keynote speaker at the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 5.