Legacy
In today’s The New Yorker, David Denby writes about Mailer’s experience in and around World War II, his writing of The Naked and the Dead, and his early efforts to construct his public persona. Denby writes: He left the Army in 1946 as a private, after a little
Interview
High Times has posted a classic interview with Mailer conducted by Richard Stratton in 2004, perhaps in anticipation of the upcoming publication of Lipton’s Journal in 2023. Stratton writes: I’ve smoked pot with Mailer on a number of occasions and have always been impressed with where it took
News
From the editor of The Mailer Review, Phil Sipiora: This is to inform everyone that we remain slowed down by supply chain delays. Because of the printing delay, we will release an electronic, PDF copy of Volume 15 to Society members and subscribers, to be followed by a mailed, printed
Legacy
Esquire has compiled a list of “the best books to give as gifts”: “The writers behind our 2022 Esquire Book Club selections—George Saunders, John Waters, Emily St. John Mandel, and more—divulge what to buy for every reader on your list.” Number 2 on the list is The Fight.
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Events
Please join us Thursday, January 5th at 2pm CT (3pm ET) for a Facebook Live discussion and Q&A featuring Robert J. Begiebing and his new LSU Press book, Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations. Live video feed of this event will appear in this discussion thread on
Publications
Now available for preorder: Norman Mailer’s Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy edited by J. Michael Lennon and John Buffalo Mailer. A Mysterious Country A Mysterious Country is a carefully selected collection of Mailer’s most incisive—and sometimes remarkably prophetic—commentary on American democracy and
Conference
Greetings, members of the Norman Mailer Society! I hope you are all doing well. This is a reminder that paper/panel proposals for our upcoming NMS conference are due December 1st. You can find information about the conference, including the call for papers, registration information, and a link to hotel
Media
Society member and scholar Robert J. Begiebing has written “The best books to start reading Norman Mailer” on Shepherd. Begiebing writes: Mailer’s novels from the 1960s-2007 are notoriously challenging, and I’ve seen readers wanting to see what Mailer is about sometimes make the mistake of starting with one
Conference
The Norman Mailer Society invites paper proposals for its 20th annual conference, which will celebrate Norman Mailer’s centenary. Paper proposals on any aspect of Mailer’s life, work, and legacy are welcome. Topics might include (but are not limited to): Mailer’s contributions to American political conversations; views on
Publications
Now available for preorder from the Library of America: Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946 (LOA #364), edited by J. Michael Lennon. From the LOA site: To celebrate and commemorate the centennial of Mailer’s birth and the 75th anniversary of the publication of his
Media
Middle Georgia State University has posted a blurb about the recent Lipton’s Journal excerpt published by Times Literary Supplement. Also, the entire TLS article is now available on Mike Lennon’s web site.