What the Society noticed about Mailer in 2010: books, films, articles, events, and the people around him. Each item links to its source where one survives.
April
- 24 — John Buffalo Mailer talks about his role in Wall Street 2 on Big Think and about his book on New Orleans in the Huffington Post.
- 27 — As Utah prepares another firing-squad execution, Lawrence Schiller recalls his last talks with Gary Gilmore in the Daily Beast. Read it.
June
- 30 — O, the Oprah Magazine names Norris Church Mailer’s A Ticket to the Circus one of its ten terrific reads of 2010.
July
- 4 — A trailer appears for the documentary Norman Mailer: The American. Watch it.
- 4 — Lawrence Schiller recalls meeting a Russian who knew Mailer from the KGB encyclopedia: “The Russian Spy We Didn’t Catch.”
- 5 — William F. Buckley’s 1968 Firing Line interview with Mailer circulates online, in two parts.
- 30 — Maggie Mailer shows The Balloonists, paintings of a post-apocalyptic world aloft, at the Ferrin Gallery, July 31–September 18. More
October
- 13 — Creative Nonfiction (issue 39) features Mailer, with an excerpt from The Executioner’s Song and comments by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lee Gutkind, and J. Michael Lennon. Creative Nonfiction