What the Society noticed about Mailer in 2017: books, films, articles, events, and the people around him. Each item links to its source where one survives.
January
- 23 — Michiko Kakutani talks with President Obama about the books that shaped his life and presidency. The New York Times
February
- 14 — The New York Times reviews the Wooster Group’s The Town Hall Affair, with Mailer as master of ceremonies of the fraught 1971 debate. The New York Times
April
- 4 — Is Donald Trump a bigger “factoid” president than Nixon? A look back at Mailer’s word. Salon
August
- 3 — The artist Steve Marcus offers his series of thirteen prints inspired by Mailer’s commentary on Martin Buber’s Tales of the Hasidim in Commentary: “The Premise,” “The Desert,” “The Burden,” “Vanity of Vanities,” “Upsetting the Bowl,” “On the Day of Destruction,” and more.
- 16 — As Michiko Kakutani leaves the New York Times, a look back at a critic who could be eviscerating of any writer, “Mailer being a prime example.” Her best burns
- 16 — When Mailer and Breslin ran their stunt-filled 1969 campaign for mayor of New York. New York Daily News
- 24 — The Village Voice, which Mailer co-founded in 1955, ends its weekly print edition after more than sixty years. Poynter
September
- 19 — Anne Wood writes about Barbara Wasserman, who has been coming to Provincetown for 63 years. Provincetown Banner
- 22 — A woman writer on her love for the proudly sexist Mailer. The Aesthete