Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer’s memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala and benefit celebrating his writers’ colony. Read more on The Daily Beast and The New York Times.
In Works and Days
- Joan Didion — American novelist and essayist; her front-page New York Times Book Review notice called The Executioner’s Song ‘an absolutely astonishing book,’ a judgment that helped…
- Salman Rushdie — British-Indian novelist; the 1989 fatwa against him for The Satanic Verses made him the focus of a writers’ free-expression campaign in which Mailer, then between PEN…