News

The latest updates and news from the Society

2019

  1. Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin Ran to Win in 1969 Patch revisits Mailer and Jimmy Breslin’s 1969 New York mayoral campaign: they ran to win, but they didn’t.
  2. Mailer and Breslin’s 1969 Mayoral Run The Washington Post recalls Mailer and Jimmy Breslin’s entertaining but ineffective 1969 run for mayor of New York.
  3. Danielle Mailer’s Art at the David M. Hunt Library Danielle Mailer’s paintings go on view at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, Connecticut.
  4. Esquire Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden to Step Down The New York Post reports that Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden will step down from the Hearst magazine that once published Mailer.
  5. Special 50th Anniversary Release from TASCHEN Norman Mailer’s MoonFire Is Getting a Special 50th Anniversary Release from TASCHEN.
  6. Norman Mailer Leaves Court, May 1961 Via GoErie: a 1961 news photo of Mailer leaving a Manhattan courtroom as sentencing is deferred in the Adele Morales stabbing case.
  7. Magical Reality: New Works Danielle Mailer exhibits colorful narrative paintings in “Magical Reality: New Works” at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village.
  8. The 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.
  9. Apollo 11 at 50 Recalls Mailer’s Moon Landing Classic A 50th-anniversary Taschen edition of Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon recalls the epic journey of Apollo 11.
  10. Student Project Features Mailer MGA Graduate Students Publish Digital Humanities Project About Norman Mailer.
  11. Feel the Punch of a Heavyweight An 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.
  12. Mailer For Mayor! Joe Flaherty captures the chaos, charisma, and contradictions of Mailer’s infamous run for New York City mayor.
  13. Mailer’s Career Spanned 59 Years Emily Temple of LitHub finds that Mailer’s writing career spanned 59 years, just shy of Borges’ 62.
  14. Call for Proposals The Norman Mailer Society calls for proposals for its 2019 conference, marking anniversaries of three landmark Mailer works.
  15. Call for Submissions: The Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award In 2019 the Society launched its first Graduate Writing Award, $500 and a chance at publication in The Mailer Review for graduate work about or inspired by Mailer. The call, its terms, and what the Society’s records show of the award afterward.
  16. 2019 Membership Drive Dear Members of the Mailer Society, Happy New Year!
  17. Diana Athill Dies Diana Athill, the British editor who handled Mailer’s books at André Deutsch and later became a celebrated memoirist, has died at 101.

2018

  1. Beverly Bentley, 1930–2018 Actress, theater director, and Norman Mailer’s fourth wife, Beverly Bentley died in Provincetown in September 2018. She was 88.
  2. Norman Mailer: Works and Days Special offer for Mailer Society members.
  3. Norman Mailer and the Siege of Chicago No writer plunged more vigorously into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, fearlessly revolutionizing literary norms and genres to capture the decade’s political, social, and…
  4. NMS Coming to Macon, GA Macon, Ga., is hosting the 2018 conference of the Norman Mailer Society from Thursday, Oct.
  5. Coming in Fall 2018: Revised Edition of Works and Days “The veritable Rosetta Stone of Mailer criticism.” —Barry H.
  6. In Long Branch, a rock for native-son Norman Mailer LONG BRANCH – They were here and then they were gone.
  7. Norman Mailer Plaque Dedicationand Family Reception On Tuesday, May 22nd, the Long Branch Historical Association will be dedicating a plaque at the Boardwalk in memory of Long Branch native son Norman Kingsley Mailer.
  8. CFP: 16th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference Macon Marriott City Center, Macon GA October 25-27, 2018 We are pleased to announce that the 2018 Norman Mailer Society Conference will be held in Macon, Georgia in cooperation with Middle Georgia…

2017

  1. Mailer in the News, 2017 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2017, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  2. Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster”: A Selective Bibliography By: JASON MOSSER. . . Adams, Laura. Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer.
  3. About Steve Marcus Steve Marcus, the Lower East Side artist known as smarcus, made a series of prints from Mailer’s commentary on Martin Buber and spoke on Mailer and Judaism at the Society’s 2017 and 2018 conferences.
  4. Colum McCann to Speak at Conference 2017 We are pleased to announce the keynote speaker at the 2107 Mailer Society conference will be Colum McCann.
  5. A Message from David Light, Treasurer The Society’s treasurer since its founding looks back on fifteen years and asks old and new friends to join for the 2017 membership drive.