News

The latest updates and news from the Society

2024

  1. Lennon and Mailer on Talk Louisiana American psychoanalyst, writer, and daughter of legendary novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer is joined by writer J.
  2. 2024 Update & Fund Drive Greetings.
  3. Documentary Trailer A trailer for How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer has been posted.
  4. A Hell of a Performance In The New York Review, Andrew Delbanco reviews the LOA publication of The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters, 1945–1946, edited by J.
  5. Conference 2024 Announcement Greetings, members of the Norman Mailer Society!
  6. Conference 2024: Resort Information The 21st annual conference of the Norman Mailer Society will be held on St.
  7. Zeitgeist Picks Up Documentary Distribution Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to director Jeff Zimbalist’s documentary How to Come Alive With…
  8. Conference 2024: Call for Papers The Norman Mailer Society invites paper proposals for its 21st annual conference to be held at the Sirata Resort on St.
  9. Stiller to Play Mailer Several sources have announced Andrew Haigh’s next project will be a film based on Mailer’s relationship with Jack Henry Abbott based on the latter’s 1981…

2023

  1. Society Update Greetings, members of the Norman Mailer Society!
  2. How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer WORLD PREMIERE — Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction.
  3. Bowen Alpern Bowen died in the early evening of Wednesday, October 4, after a year-long journey with a malignant brain tumor that had culminated in twelve weeks…
  4. Ed Fancher, a Founder of The Village Voice, Is Dead at 100 When he started the alternative weekly with Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer in 1955, he later said, “We were crazy enough to think it would succeed.” Read more…
  5. Another Round with Norman Mailer Writing in the Jewish Review of Books, Jesse Tisch offers a comprehensive overview of Mailer’s life and career with emphasis on his Jewishness.
  6. Special Performance Creative Center for the Arts presents: A Ticket to the Circus written by Bonnie Culver, directed by Michelle Danner An exclusive Virtual Theater Experience…
  7. Norman Mailer’s Ripe Garbage Writing for The Baffler, Rob Madole reviews the Library of America’s latest edition of The Naked and the Dead, and discusses Mailer’s experience of death…
  8. Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence Peter Keough reviews A Mysterious Country in The Arts Fuse.
  9. All Hail Mailer! A Belated Eulogy for a Fellow Jeffersonian In Minding the Campus, Eric Clifford Graf counts Mailer as “best of the American Left.” While Mailer himself might take issue with this categorization,…
  10. Chris Pine Recommends Mailer In a recent interview in Esquire, Chris Pine discusses his “Norman Mailer phase” in discussing his book recommendations.
  11. The Reckless Truth-Teller The podcast Open Source “un-forgets” Norman Mailer on their latest episode “Norman Mailer Turns 100” with an interview of the editors of A Mysterious…
  12. The Importance of Norman Mailer Reviewer David Masciotra has published a detailed review of Mailer’s collection A Mysterious Country.
  13. In the Ring with Mailer In today’s TLS, James Marcus gets in the ring with Mailer by reviewing two books by Society members J.
  14. When American Writers Had Grit David Mikics weighs in on the current cancel Mailer controversy.
  15. A Hundred Years of Norman Mailer Published also for Mailer’s birthday, Ronald Fried has interviewed J.
  16. LOA’s Mailer at 100 To celebrate Mailer’s centenary and their publication of The Naked and the Dead, the Library of America has posted a page with links for Mailer’s life and work.
  17. Let’s All Celebrate Norman Mailer Today, David Mikics writes his own centenary paean to Mailer on Tablet.
  18. 100 Years of Norman Mailer Norman Mailer, one of the most iconic and influential American writers of the 20th century, would have turned 100 years old today, January 31, 2023.
  19. Out Tomorrow: A Mysterious Country Edited by John Buffalo Mailer and J.
  20. High Life Taki, writing for the Spectator in Australia simultaneously disses the latest “hatchet job” biography of Mailer and gives reasons why we should still be…
  21. What Should Readers Make? An anonymous writer for The Economist asks “What should readers make of Norman Mailer’s life and work?” and attempts to supply an answer.