News
Greetings. 2024 is shaping up to be another stellar year for the Norman Mailer Society, but we couldn’t do it without your support. Our commitment to preserving and promoting the legacy of Norman Mailer remains steadfast and enthusiastic. However, we rely heavily on the generosity and support of our
Media
A trailer for How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer has been posted. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, the documentary that features several Society members, opens Friday, June 28 at Film Forum.
Media
In The New York Review, Andrew Delbanco reviews the LOA publication of The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters, 1945–1946, edited by J. Michael Lennon. He writes: Norman Mailer wrote with an unstable mixture of self-indulgence and self-awareness, bravado and diffidence, glibness and bracing honesty, macho posturing and
Conference
Greetings, members of the Norman Mailer Society! I hope you are all well. This year’s conference will be held at the Sirata Beach Resort in St. Petersburg, FL, on November 14–16, 2024. The conference information page contains all the up-to-date information, including registration fees, hotel details, a call
The 21st annual conference of the Norman Mailer Society will be held on St. Pete Beach, Florida, November 14–16, 2024. Conference panels and events will be held at the Sirata Beach Resort, and we have also secured a room block there, with reduced rates of $229/night. Reserve your
Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to director Jeff Zimbalist’s documentary How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer. Read More
CFP
The Norman Mailer Society invites paper proposals for its 21st annual conference to be held at the Sirata Resort on St. Petersburg Beach, FL, November 14–16, 2024. Paper proposals on any aspect of Mailer’s life, work, and legacy are welcome. Topics might include (but are not limited to)
Several sources have announced Andrew Haigh’s next project will be a film based on Mailer’s relationship with Jack Henry Abbott based on the latter’s 1981 novel In the Belly of the Beast. Coming Soon states: [Ben] Stiller will play Mailer in Haigh’s movie, while [Collin] Farrell
News
Greetings, members of the Norman Mailer Society! I hope this finds you all doing well. I just wanted to touch base with a few announcements, to keep everyone apprised of what's been going on behind the scenes since our April conference and our recent election of new society
Events
WORLD PREMIERE — Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction. From his formative years in Brooklyn, through his career as a preeminent cultural voice, we follow Mailer’s life through 6 marriages, 9 children, 11 bestselling books and 2 Pulitzer Prizes
Bowen died in the early evening of Wednesday, October 4, after a year-long journey with a malignant brain tumor that had culminated in twelve weeks of hospice care. His oldest daughter, Juli, was with him. I had stepped out of the room for a minute. Our CaringBridge site is here.
When he started the alternative weekly with Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer in 1955, he later said, “We were crazy enough to think it would succeed.” Read more in the New York Times.