What the Society noticed about Mailer in 2011: books, films, articles, events, and the people around him. Each item links to its source where one survives.
April
- 18 — Mailer’s top-floor Brooklyn Heights apartment, remodeled in defiance of his fear of heights, comes up for sale, reports the New York Times’ City Room blog.
December
- 23 — The artist Katrina Eugenia opens her first solo show in New York under an epigraph from The Gospel According to the Son, reports the Wall Street Journal.
- 29 — A new study from Mellen Press examines the participatory journalism of Mailer alongside Michael Herr, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion. More