nonfiction novel

Fifty years ago today the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Mailer for his “nonfiction novel” *Armies of the Night*, an account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.

A Irish Times review lauds Mailer’s 1975 account of the Ali–Foreman fight as prose that carries the drama of the ring with novelistic force.

Mailer For Mayor!

Joe Flaherty captures the chaos, charisma, and contradictions of Mailer’s infamous run for New York City mayor.

The Norman Mailer Society invites submissions for its first annual Graduate Writing Award, which recognizes high-quality graduate student work about or…

Diana Athill Dies

The *Washington Post* reports that Diana Athill, one-time Mailer editor, dies.