What the Society noticed about Mailer in 2016: books, films, articles, events, and the people around him. Each item links to its source where one survives.
January
- 21 — James Wolcott mentions The Norman Mailer Society Podcast in Vanity Fair. Hear the podcast.
March
- 15 — Norris Church Mailer’s collection becomes searchable through the Digital Commonwealth. Digital Commonwealth
- 25 — The Mailer Center announces its 2016 Poetry Fellowship at Pepperdine University, July 9–31.
- 29 — Mailer, one writer argues, would have had a field day with Donald Trump: “Mailer on Trump.” Commonweal
April
- 11 — How New York magazine covered the O. J. Simpson verdict by hiring Mailer on a very short deadline. Vulture / New York
- 28 — NPR’s ethics handbook reminds reporters that “factoid,” Mailer’s coinage, doesn’t mean what they think it does. NPR
May
- 10 — Mailer Fellow Joshua Prager publishes 100 Years, a journey from birth to one hundred in quotations from great writers.
- 18 — The Wooster Group revisits Mailer’s debate with feminists in The Town Hall Affair at the Performing Garage. Hyperallergic
June
- 10 — A Muhammad Ali reading list. Literary Hub
- 10 — Remembering Muhammad Ali, whose achievements in and out of the ring remain undimmed. The Sydney Morning Herald
- 30 — For the Paris Review Daily, Nathan Gelgud draws a convention-season comic: “Norman Mailer and the Pigs.”
July
- 11 — Danielle Mailer’s 186-foot mural along the Naugatuck River in Torrington, Connecticut, made with local volunteers, draws the attention of the New York Times. Project Fish Tales
- 16 — Before the 2016 conventions, Thomas Mallon gives NPR a reading list that includes Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago. NPR