News

The latest updates and news from the Society

2020

  1. Remembering Chris Busa Christopher Busa—founding editor of Provincetown Arts, Mailer’s friend and neighbor, and a member of the Society’s Board from its founding—died on June 20, 2020. He was 73.

2019

  1. 31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village 6sqft’s roundup of 31 literary icons of Greenwich Village lists Mailer’s 73 Perry Street at number 15.
  2. Bonnie Culver’s Play Adapts A Ticket to the Circus Society board member Bonnie Culver’s stage adaptation of Norris Church Mailer’s memoir A Ticket to the Circus heads into production.
  3. In Memoriam: Dr. Wilbur Hayes The Society mourns the passing of Dr. Wilbur Hayes, an original member and a friend of Norman Mailer.
  4. Jason Miller Discusses the 2019 Conference in Revise This! Jason Miller discusses the Society’s 2019 conference in the November issue of Revise This!
  5. Susan Mailer and J. Michael Lennon at the 92Y Susan Mailer and J. Michael Lennon appear at the 92Y on May 20, 2020, for an event on her father, Norman Mailer.
  6. Walter J. Minton, Mailer’s Putnam Publisher, Dies at 96 Walter J. Minton, the G.P. Putnam’s Sons head who published Norman Mailer and Nabokov’s Lolita, has died at 96.
  7. Lauren Michele Jackson on Cultural Appropriation Via The Nation, Lauren Michele Jackson discusses cultural appropriation and a close reading of Mailer’s essay The White Negro.
  8. Mailer Tuchman Media Debuts Film and TV Slate Via Deadline, Mailer Tuchman Media launches a film and TV slate anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author.
  9. Abbie Hoffman’s Papers Become a College Collection Via the New York Times, Abbie Hoffman’s papers become a college archive, including a Norman Mailer plea to New York’s governor for leniency.
  10. Nnedi Okorafor: The Executioner’s Song Changed My Mind Via The Guardian, Nnedi Okorafor names The Executioner’s Song the book that changed her mind on capital punishment.
  11. Works and Days Wins the 2019 Lucid Award J. Michael Lennon, Donna Pedro Lennon, and Gerald R. Lucas receive the 2019 Robert F. Lucid Award for Norman Mailer: Works and Days.
  12. The 2019 Conference Begins Tomorrow The Norman Mailer Society’s 2019 conference in Wilkes-Barre, PA, begins tomorrow, and the final program has been posted.
  13. Slate Parodies Trump’s Snake-Filled Border Moat Via Slate, Matthew Dessem’s verse parody occasioned by a reported Trump border plan for a moat filled with snakes.
  14. The Capote Tapes Via Variety, a Toronto review of The Capote Tapes, whose recordings include Mailer recalling a night of drinking with Truman Capote.
  15. Barbara Probst Solomon Dies at 90 Via the New York Times, an obituary for Barbara Probst Solomon, the memoirist and essayist of Franco-era Spain, who has died at 90.
  16. Jerome Loving’s Rip Torn Eulogy Mentions Mailer Jerome Loving’s eulogy for Rip Torn in the Walt Whitman Quarterly mentions Norman Mailer.
  17. White Negroes: Jackson’s Critique of Cultural Appropriation Lauren Michele Jackson’s White Negroes, inspired by Mailer’s 1957 essay, offers a nuanced critique of cultural appropriation.
  18. ‘The Armies of the Night’ in an Age of Youth Protest Francis Wade rereads Mailer’s The Armies of the Night for the LA Review of Books in an age of youth protest.
  19. The Fugs Will Exorcise Washington Again Hudson Valley One reports that the Fugs will reprise their Pentagon exorcism at the Byrdcliffe Barn.
  20. Rip Torn, Wild Man and Actor, Dies at 88 Wicked Local: Provincetown remembers Rip Torn — actor, Mailer collaborator, and Provincetown fixture — dead at 88.
  21. Hipster Elegies For The Hedgehog Review, Greg Jackson traces the death and life of the great American hipster as an alternative cultural history.
  22. Mailer on the Moon No one captured the Apollo era quite like Mailer did.
  23. Review of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race J. Michael Lennon reviews Douglas Brinkley’s account of JFK’s space legacy with an eye toward its Mailer connections.
  24. The Murderer, the Writer, the Reckoning For the NYRB, John J. Lennon, imprisoned at Sing Sing, reflects on Norman Mailer, Jack Henry Abbott, and the Abbott affair.
  25. Two Vintage Mailer Interviews Now on YouTube Two vintage Mailer interviews are now on YouTube: Jeremy Isaacs’s Face to Face and Jana Wendt’s Uncensored.
  26. Norman Mailer, the Moon Landing, and New Journalism WVIA’s Keystone Edition interviews J. Michael Lennon about Mailer, the moon landing, and New Journalism.
  27. Evidence of our Hubris. Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
  28. Tom Wolfe vs. Updike, Mailer, and Other Literary Feuds Salon’s Graham Tarrant revisits Mailer’s timeless literary feuds with Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe.
  29. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 These are the Apollo 11 secrets no-one ever told you about.