Legacy
In “A Badge of Honor,” Taki Theodoracopulos writes about Mailer and cancel culture: Mind you, to be canceled is to be recognized as very good, so my friend Norman Mailer has to be first in line. In Mailer’s novel An American Dream, the protagonist Stephen Rojack murders his wife
Miscellany
Manso, 80, was known for sprawling, extensively researched biographies of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando, and for a book recounting the murder of fashion writer Christa Worthington in Truro in 2002 and the subsequent trial of Christopher McCowen, who was found guilty of her murder. Read More
Miscellany
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 generation of Jewish public intellectuals reared on the Lower East Side, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 81. He had a
Legacy
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 right. Keyes writes: Anticipating censorship, Mailer used the word fug in lieu of “fuck” several hundred times in his manuscript. This
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Award
The Norman Mailer Society invites submissions for its first annual Graduate Writing Award, which recognizes high-quality graduate student work about or inspired by the work of Norman Mailer. Eligible entries include academic papers or creative pieces composed by current graduate students. Submissions should be 10-15 pages, double-spaced, in 12 point