News
The latest updates and news from the Society
2012
- What Would Mailer Say? The nation’s columnists have exhausted themselves searching fiction for anecdotes and admonitions that will illuminate David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
- CFP: The Review, Volume 7 The 2013 issue of The Mailer Review will emphasize the theme of “Norman Mailer and Contemporary Literature.” If you have an interest in contributing, please contact the editor, Phillip Sipiora…
- A Good Fight Pamela Paul asks “Where have all the fighters gone?” in her post on Arts Beat reporting on the recent Norman Mailer Center Gala.
- Dahlby Correction Tracy Dahlby’s article in The Fall 2011 issue of The Mailer Review contains a punctuation error.
- NMS Conference 2012 The Tenth Annual International Conference of The Norman Mailer Society will be held in Provincetown, Massachusetts on October 10, 11, 12 and 13 (2012).
- From the NMS President As many of you may know, John Buffalo Mailer has been waging a vigorous campaign to get the Village Voice, the publication his father helped found, to cease publishing sexually exploitive…
- Support for the Colony Great news for all those who have applied or are planning to apply for a summer 2012 writing workshop at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
- Apply for Summer 2012 at the Mailer Colony Provincetown, MA, beautiful coastal community of artists and thinkers, is ready to welcome you to the fourth season of summer workshops and fellowships at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
- CFP: NMS Conference 2012 The Norman Mailer Society Tenth International Conference October 10-13, 2012 • Provincetown, Massachusetts The Program Committee seeks proposals for panel presentations during the Tenth Annual…
- John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements John Mailer, son of Norman Mailer, joins 80,000 supporters of campaign on Change.org to ban sex ads that may feature minors on Village Voice-owned Backpage.com John Buffalo Mailer, the youngest son…
2011
- Mailer in the News, 2011 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2011, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
- CFP: The Review, Volume 6 The Mailer Review is calling for papers on “Why Mailer Matters,” a special emphasis in the sixth volume of the Review (Fall 2012).
- Join Us on Facebook Just a reminder: the Society has a presence on Facebook – currently with quite a few members.
- Why Mailer Matters: Three Reasons by: J. Michael Lennon, authorized biographer and Professor Emeritus, Wilkes University 1.
- Preview: The Review Volume 5 I am pleased to inform you that we are well along in preparing the 2011 issue.
- Literary Warriors Masculinity, toughness, fantasy women, violence, war, boxing, guns – these are the themes that unite two of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway.
2010
- Mailer in the News, 2010 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2010, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
- Norris Church Mailer Memorial A memorial for Norris Church Mailer will be held next spring in New York, and another in Provincetown.
- Norris Church Mailer: Family Press Release Norris Church Mailer (born Barbara Jean Davis in 1949) died at her home in Brooklyn Heights, New York at 10:55 AM on November 21, 2010.
- Norris Church Mailer, 1949–2010 It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Norris Church Mailer, widow of Norman Mailer, who died November 21, 2010, after a long and valiant struggle with cancer.
- Pamuk Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s first Nobel laureate in literature, was honored on Tuesday by the Norman Mailer Center in Massachusetts with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Mike Lennon on Mailer’s War, in the TLS In the summer of 2010 Mailer’s authorized biographer, J. Michael Lennon, wrote to the Times Literary Supplement to set out what Mailer did in the Pacific war, and how it became The Naked and the Dead.
- The 2010 Norman Mailer Center Honorees The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony is proud to announce this year’s Mailer Prize winners to be honored at the Center’s Annual Benefit Gala, which will be held on October…
- Writers Colony Gala This year at our Annual Benefit Gala, on October 19, 2010, the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony will honor the great Turkish writer and 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk by presenting him with…
- Norris Church Mailer’s Ticket Reviews are coming in for Norris Church Mailer’s new memoir, A Ticket to the Circus.
- Membership Letter, Spring 2010 Dear Mailerians! Here we are entering the 8th year of The Norman Mailer Society.
- Norris Church Mailer’s Upcoming Memoir A DEEPLY PERSONAL, WARM, FUNNY, AND REVEALING MEMOIR FROM NORRIS CHURCH MAILER " A Ticket to the Circus is a remarkable memoir—blunt, funny, extraordinarily candid and self-aware; deeply moving, as…
- Fiction Contest British GQ magazine and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony announce a new annual competition for non-fiction writing.
- Mornings with Mailer A RECOLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP by DWAYNE RAYMOND Published to Coincide with What Would Have Been Norman Mailer’s 87th Birthday — An Intimate Portrait of the Great Writer’s Final Years In Mornings with…
- Colony Now Accepting Applications The Norman Mailer Writers Colony is pleased to announce its call for applications for the Second Annual Norman Mailer Writers Colony Fellowships at Provincetown, MA.