The Norman Mailer Society supports several publishing efforts that preserve Mailer’s legacy, showcase new scholarship, and share resources with members. Use this section to explore ongoing projects, read submission guidelines, and learn how to obtain copies.
Journal
- The Mailer Review — the Society’s flagship annual journal featuring peer-reviewed essays, archival finds, interviews, poetry, and artwork inspired by Mailer’s life and work.
- Back Volumes — order print copies of Volumes 1–15 of The Mailer Review, singly or as a complete set.
Books
- Norman Mailer: Works and Days — an award-winning chronology compiled by J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon that tracks Mailer’s publications, appearances, and collaborations across seven decades.
- Reflections — friends, family, and enthusiasts reflect on their relationship with Norman Mailer and his work for what would have been his 100th birthday.
Multimodal
- Project Mailer — the Digital Humanities initiative of the Society. Created and maintained by Gerald R. Lucas, it features projects — both analog and digital — undertaken by the Society’s members.
- Lipton’s Journal — Mailer’s journal of self-analysis and personal growth he kept from December 1954 to March of 1955, edited by J. Michael Lennon, Susan Mailer, and Gerald R. Lucas.
- Norman Mailer: Works and Days — the digital successor to the bio-bibliography by J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon, edited by Gerald R. Lucas: curated Work pages, a bibliography register of more than 3,400 entries, full texts, and a Days page for every year of Mailer’s life.
- The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer — by Barry H. Leeds was published in 1969 and explores Norman Mailer’s major writing through the sixties. We present the full text of Leeds’ study in a new digital form.
- An American Dream Expanded features letters, full-text criticism, essays, a gallery, and more that contextualizes and expands study of An American Dream.
- Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords — assembled by J. Michael Lennon, this collections features full-text introductions, prefaces, and forewords by Mailer, including those to the works of Jean Malaquais, Abbie Hoffman, Jack Henry Abbott, and others.
- Podcast — hosted by Justin Bozung and published twice monthly 2015–2018, The Norman Mailer Society Podcast highlighted the people and projects that promote the legacy of Norman Mailer.
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