News

The latest updates and news from the Society

2009

  1. Mailer in the News, 2009 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2009, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  2. NMS By-Laws This Society shall be called the Norman Mailer Society.
  3. Colony Gala a Success Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer’s memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala and benefit celebrating his writers’ colony.
  4. The Review, Volume 3 One of the century’s greatest American authors – Norman Mailer – has entered the pantheon of great writers, leaving a legacy that will offer scholars, researchers and fans endless territory for…
  5. Writers Colony and NCTE Announce Winners The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony have awarded the first annual Norman Mailer High School Nonfiction Writing Award to EMILY SWANAGIN of Alabama…
  6. Mailer’s Self-Portrait at Auction The after-hours sketch Mailer made for Burt Britton at the Village Vanguard, the first of Britton’s famous collection of writers’ self-portraits, went to auction in 2009.
  7. Writers Colony Gala The First Annual Norman Writers Colony Gala, the Prologue to the Seventh International Norman Mailer Society Conference (Oct.
  8. A Symposium on Mailer’s Film and Theater In September 2009 the actor and director Stephan Morrow, who had worked with Mailer on Strawhead, Tough Guys Don’t Dance, and The Deer Park, convened a panel on Mailer’s work in film and theater at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
  9. 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival On Sunday, September 13, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Literary Council and Brooklyn Tourism will host the fourth annual free Brooklyn Book Festival, presenting over 220…
  10. Richard Poirier Dies at 83 Richard Poirier—critic, founder of Raritan, a founder of the Library of America, and author of Norman Mailer (1972), one of the first and sharpest studies of Mailer’s work—died in New York on August 15, 2009. He was 83.
  11. Ricks Knighted The Mailer Society is pleased to announce that Christopher Ricks, keynote speaker at the 2008 Society conference in Provincetown, has been knighted as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
  12. Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963-69 A second printing of 50 copies of 76 Mailer letters concerning the conception, composition, publication and reception of his 1965 novel, An American Dream, has been made available to The Mailer…
  13. CFP: The Review, Volume 4 Norman Mailer / Ernest Hemingway Call for Papers: 2010 The Mailer Review is calling for papers on “Norman Mailer / Ernest Hemingway,” a special emphasis in the fourth volume of the Review (Fall…
  14. 2009 Norman Mailer Fellows The Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Provincetown, Massachusetts, is proud to announce the Norman Mailer Fellows for its 2009 inaugural year.
  15. Salvatore Scibona Wins Writing Award The Norman Mailer Writers Colony and The Provincetown Arts Press announce the awarding of the first Norman Mailer Cape Cod Writing Award for Exceptional Writing to Mr.
  16. Richard Meier to Speak in Provincetown Provincetown Arts Groups Join Forces to bring Pritzker Prize Winning Architect, Richard Meier to Provincetown.
  17. Mailer Wins Norman Mailer has been inducted into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame, thanks in no little part to Society members, I’m sure.
  18. Mailer Writing Awards Announced The new Mailer writing awards were announced on February 23 at a Washington, D.C.
  19. Mailer’s Final Gift In The Daily Beast, Lawrence Schiller writes about Norman Mailer’s literacy legacy and the founding of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at his home in Provincetown, MA.
  20. A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels The following is an excerpt from The Mailer Review Volume 2 of Robert J.
  21. Larry Schiller Featured in the Times Hillary Rose of the Times Online chats with Larry Schiller about his photography and his remarkable life experiences: He was taught needlepoint by Joanne Woodward and taken to the races by Jack…
  22. José Torres Dies at 72 José Torres, former light heavyweight boxing champion and a close friend of the Mailer family, died of a heart attack on January 19 at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
  23. Obama Like JFK Fred Kaplan, in his article " Forget FDR and Lincoln; Obama Is Most Like JFK " for Slate, argues that “the Kennedy-Obama parallels are, in fact, deeper than they might seem.” Within, he cites –…
  24. The Edge of Mystery Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer’s hopes for a President Kennedy in his “Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” Bai begins " The Edge…
  25. Writers Colony Mentioned Wicked Local Provincetown has an article today about the spring opening of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
  26. New Flickr Group As you know, the Society has it’s own Flickr account where we post photos of Norman Mailer and Society conferences.

2008

  1. Mailer in the News, 2008 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2008, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  2. Two Announcements From President J. Michael Lennon: I am happy to announce that Professor Camille Paglia will be the keynote luncheon speaker at the Washington conference.
  3. Mailer in “Doc” Immy Humes’s documentary about her father, Harold L. “Doc” Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review and, by one account, manager of Mailer’s 1961 run for mayor, aired on PBS on December 9, 2008, with Mailer among its witnesses.
  4. NM Writers Colony Today, the Cape Cod Times discusses the upcoming launch of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA.