News

The latest updates and news from the Society

2026

  1. NewAds: An “On This Day” Series for 2026 Gerald R. Lucas · This year, we launch a new feature for a new web site.
  2. Society Updates and Transition in Leadership Gerald R. Lucas · A number of updates and announcements begin 2026.
  3. Mailer Premieres “Wild 90” and Picks a Fight with Film January 7, 1967: One of Mailer’s earliest “I’ll do it myself” moves—self-mythmaking through film.

2025

  1. A Letter from the President Gerald R. Lucas · It’s been my pleasure to serve as your president.
  2. What Mailer Teaches about NYC Campaigners Gabriel S. Tennen draws a line connecting Mamdani’s 2025 mayoral push with Mailer and Breslin’s 1969 campaign.
  3. Rutigliano Elected to Board Olivia Rutigliano-Mailer has been elected to the Executive Board.
  4. David Denby Wins 2025 Lucid Award The Norman Mailer Society is pleased to announce that David Denby is the recipient of the 2025 Lucid Award.
  5. Changes in Society Leadership The Norman Mailer Society announces a series of leadership and editorial transitions.
  6. The Son Also Rises John Buffalo Mailer reflects on the life, work, and legacy of his father.
  7. Fighting for One’s Fiction Anthony Giardina revisits Mailer’s 1959 Advertisements for Myself.
  8. McCarthy and Mailer Luc Haasbroek on Norman Mailer and Cormac McCarthy.
  9. Call for Papers Conference 2025
  10. Mike Lennon Interview J. Michael Lennon speaks about Mailer’s newly released Lipton’s Journal and related projects.
  11. Happy Birthday, Norman! Today, Norman Mailer would have been 102.

2024

  1. How Norman Mailer Changed the Face of Biography Society member Robert Dean Lurie examines Mailer’s unconventional approach to biographical writing.
  2. We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now In his New Statesman article, “We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now,” Lee Siegel considers Norman Mailer’s self-description as a “Left…
  3. The Real “Woke Right” In his “The Real Woke Right,” Geoff Shullenberger examines the rise of right-wing movements that adopt progressive language to advance conservative agendas.
  4. The Ghosts of Tough Guys In her recent CrimeReads article, “The Ghosts of Tough Guys Don’t Dance ,” Society member Olivia Rutigliano examines Mailer’s 1984 novel…
  5. 2024 Business Meeting Agenda 21st Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference November 14, 2024, 9:00 AM Approval of 2023 Business Meeting Minutes (Lucas) Conference Program Overview…
  6. Minutes of the 2023 Business Meeting The business meeting of the Norman Mailer Society was held on April 20, 2023, at the beginning of the Society’s 20 th conference in Austin, Texas. …
  7. Conference Book Orders & Final Reminders The countdown has begun: we now have less than two weeks before the 21st annual conference of the Norman Mailer Society.
  8. Where Secularism Fails In his Commonweal article, “Where Secularism Fails,” Paul Baumann touches on Norman Mailer’s sharp critiques of modern secularism.
  9. Norman Mailer vs. the Big Empty Examnining Mailer’s critique of America’s corporate and conformist tendencies
  10. Conference Program Draft and Reminders Dear Society Members and Conference Attendees, Greetings, all.
  11. Mike Lennon Interviewed on ArtScene, with Erika Funke WVIA Public Media · J.
  12. The Infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as Seen by Novelist Norman Mailer Daniel Hautzinger, for WTTW Chicago, revisits Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago, a work of New Journalism that captures the upheaval of the…
  13. A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience Variety has posted a review of Jeff Zimbalist’s How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer by Owen Gleiberman: Forget what Mailer could or could not get away with…
  14. Doing The Right Thing: President Biden and Withdrawal By: Governor John Waihee 1986 – 1994 State of Hawaii; Governor Ben Cayetano 1994 – 2002 State of Hawaii; Governor Neil Abercrombie 2010 – 2014 State of…
  15. Readings on the Life, Works, and Conflicts of Norman Mailer LitHub has posted “ What to Read Before and After Seeing How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer.
  16. Weekend Documentary Premiere Several Mailer family and Society members will join Jeff Zimbalist at the premiere of How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer for question and…