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2022

  1. Pinckney on Mailer Darryl Pinckney writes “ My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours ” in The Nation.
  2. World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring Mailer’s The Fight comes out on top in “ World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring .” Kieran Spratt writes: The meeting between an aging…
  3. A Nuanced Reading of “Canceled” Writers Readers respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about his father and other “canceled” writers in the Boston Globe.
  4. Barbara Mailer Wasserman Interviewed Barbara Mailer Wasserman is interviewed on Artscene by Erika Funke.
  5. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93.
  6. Canceling My Father, Norman Mailer Michael Mailer writes “Canceling my father, Norman Mailer: The US needs to stop eating its own” in the Boston Globe.
  7. Norman Mailer Wasn’t Canceled David Klion argues that the The White Negro “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored for its antiquated racial language.” He…
  8. 99 Today would have been Norman Mailer’s 99th birthday.
  9. What Norman Mailer’s “Cancellation” Reveals Michael Mailer contextualizes the Cancel Mailer controversy and makes an argument for publishing companies to be a place for the “free exchange of ideas” in…
  10. The Effort to “Delete” American Novelist Norman Mailer In “The effort to ‘delete’ American novelist Norman Mailer,” David Walsh argues that “[t]he censorship of Mailer’s work has a thoroughly reactionary,…
  11. Mailer Controversy on Podcast On the BFG Podcast #037, renowned book critic Carolyn Kellogg joins Neal Pollack to talk about the Cancel Mailer controversy, and Carolyn refers to the…
  12. If Norman Mailer Can Be Cancelled, No One Is Safe “If Norman Mailer can be cancelled, no one is safe,” argues Tim Black, perhaps overstating the issue based on the facts, but his point is strong.
  13. “The White Negro”: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later “‘The White Negro’: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later” by Peter Dreier considers Mailer’s 1957 essay in light of current events and concludes “For all…
  14. Norman Mailer Wanted to Be Cancelled “[Mailer] stalked the twentieth century like a proud satyr: hideous, provocative, funny and insightful, and always true to himself,” writes Tomiwa Owolade.
  15. Mailer and the Monoculture More on the cancel Mailer controversy.
  16. Was Norman Mailer Canceled? His Publishers Say No. You can’t cancel Norman Mailer.
  17. The Execution and Un-Execution Of Norman Mailer “Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere,” writes Neal Pollack.

2021

  1. Love of My Life Ron Fried interviews Barbara Wasserman, discussing her life and new memoir Love of My Life.
  2. The Challenge and Reward of Norman Mailer Norman Mailer in Context has been published by Cambridge University Press, edited by Mailer Society president Maggie McKinley.
  3. The Norman Mailer Center, 2008–2021 The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, founded after Mailer’s death to nurture new writers, ceased its activities in 2021. Its story, from the Provincetown summers to Wilkes University.
  4. Love of My Life Barbara Wasserman’s new memoir, Love of My Life, has been published.
  5. Joan Didion on Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Joan Didion’s 1979 review of The Executioner’s Song.
  6. Norman Mailer: Prisoner of Sex Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex.
  7. A Badge of Honor Mind you, to be canceled is to be recognized as very good, so my friend Norman Mailer has to be first in line.
  8. Cape Cod author Peter Manso, 80, Dies Manso, 80, was known for sprawling, extensively researched biographies of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando, and for a book recounting the murder of fashion…
  9. Morris Dickstein, Critic and Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 Sam Roberts writes: Morris Dickstein, a literary critic, cultural historian and City University of New York professor who was among the last of the first…
  10. When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up Ralph Keyes of Literary Hub discusses Mailer’s infamous fug and factoid in “When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up” and gets it…
  11. Photos from Maidstone John Whiteway writes: In 1968 as a 19 year old college student I came down to New York from Canada hoping to get work in the film business for the summer.

2020

  1. Volunteer for The Mailer Review Project Mailer’s call for assistant digital editors to bring the print Review online.
  2. Remediating Articles: A Guide for Volunteer Digital Editors A digital editor’s guide for remediating print articles from The Mailer Review for the screen.