What the Society noticed about Mailer in 2013: books, films, articles, events, and the people around him. Each item links to its source where one survives.
January
- 21 — GQ reports on the Norman Mailer Center’s 2012 benefit gala, where Alec Baldwin urged the room to follow Mailer and Muhammad Ali. Read it.
March
- 1 — The Hay Festival launches free podcasts from its archive, with Mailer among the first, reports the Telegraph.
April
- 2 — J. Michael Lennon launches a website for Norman Mailer: A Double Life, due from Simon & Schuster on October 15.
- 22 — Jason Mosser asks members for help finding “Mailerisms,” words Mailer coined that don’t yet appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.
May
- 24 — Steve Adams, from the 2009 Mailer Colony workshop in creative nonfiction, wins a Pushcart Prize for his essay “Touch.” More
June
- 15 — John Buffalo Mailer talks about his film Hello Herman on HuffPost Live.
- 20 — Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays, edited by Phillip Sipiora, is announced.
July
- 17 — The Swans, a film project reimagining Leda and the Swan at a New York dinner party, seeks support on Kickstarter.
- 24 — After the Zimmerman verdict, Bill Maher turns to Mailer’s “The White Negro” in a column on race and the right: “The New Norman.” Real Time with Bill Maher Blog
August
- 29 — In the London Review of Books, Christian Lorentzen recalls Mailer’s 1969 mayoral platform: statehood for the city, a ban on cars in Manhattan, free public bicycles. London Review of Books
September
- 2 — Lee Siegel remembers Mailer’s quixotic 1969 bid for mayor amid a city in crisis: “When City Elections Were Fun.” The New York Times
- 4 — Publishers Weekly reviews Mind of an Outlaw, fifty essays spanning 64 years that show Mailer “at his brawny, pugnacious, and egotistical best.” Publishers Weekly
- 20 — The New York Observer lists both Norman Mailer: A Double Life and Mind of an Outlaw among its top ten books of the fall.
- 23 — Mailer’s books get a digital re-release, alongside a new essay collection meant to bring in younger readers. The Atlantic Wire
October
- 1 — J. Michael Lennon’s Norman Mailer: A Double Life is published.
- 10 — Esquire asks what Mailer, at the center of sixty years of public brawls, would have thought of the Tea Party. Read it.
- 30 — After Graydon Carter’s New York Times review calls it “a glorious biography,” J. Michael Lennon discusses A Double Life at the University of South Florida.
November
- 3 — The Globe and Mail reviews Mind of an Outlaw, the first posthumous collection of Mailer’s work. The Globe and Mail
- 4 — Allen Barra asks why Mailer wrote novels at all, given the lasting power of his journalism. Salon
- 5 — Phillip Sipiora talks about Mind of an Outlaw on WUSF and reads from it at the Tampa Bay Times Festival of Reading.
- 16 — The Mondo Film Podcast devotes a nine-part series to Tough Guys Don’t Dance, with J. Michael Lennon, John Buffalo Mailer, and other Society members: “Death Is a Celebration!” The Mondo Film Podcast
- 24 — A Kickstarter campaign, “A Barn Reborn,” for the Provincetown barn Charles Webster Hawthorne built for his art school in 1907. Kickstarter
- 24 — Allen Barra counts Oswald’s Tale among the five books on the Kennedy assassination that matter. The Daily Beast
- 27 — Phillip Sipiora tells USF that times are good for Mailer studies, citing Lennon’s biography, Mind of an Outlaw, Schiller’s Taschen book, and the Criterion release of Mailer’s films. USF News
December
- 1 — The Harry Ransom Center shows Mailer’s handwritten notes on Oswald: “Notes in Norman Mailer archive shed light on Lee Harvey Oswald.”
- 5 — John Buffalo Mailer writes for Inked about one man’s journey into the world of tattoo art and culture: “Lord’s Eye.” Inked Magazine