Feb 03 Canceling My Father, Norman Mailer Michael Mailer writes “Canceling my father, Norman Mailer: The US needs to stop eating its own” in the Boston Globe. Feb 3, 2022 1 min read
Feb 02 Norman Mailer Wasn’t Canceled David Klion argues that the The White Negro “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored Feb 2, 2022 1 min read
Jan 20 What Norman Mailer’s “Cancellation” Reveals Michael Mailer contextualizes the Cancel Mailer controversy and makes an argument for publishing companies to be a place for the Jan 20, 2022 1 min read
Jan 17 The Effort to “Delete” American Novelist Norman Mailer In “The effort to ‘delete’ American novelist Norman Mailer,” David Walsh argues that “[t]he censorship of Mailer’s work Jan 17, 2022 1 min read
Jan 11 Mailer Controversy on Podcast On the BFG Podcast #037, renowned book critic Carolyn Kellogg joins Neal Pollack to talk about the Cancel Mailer controversy, Jan 11, 2022 1 min read
Jan 10 If Norman Mailer Can Be Cancelled, No One Is Safe “If Norman Mailer can be cancelled, no one is safe,” argues Tim Black, perhaps overstating the issue based on the Jan 10, 2022 1 min read
Jan 10 “The White Negro”: Norman Mailer's Essay 65 Years Later “‘The White Negro’: Norman Mailer’s Essay 65 Years Later” by Peter Dreier considers Mailer’s 1957 essay in light Jan 10, 2022 1 min read
Jan 07 Norman Mailer Wanted to Be Cancelled “[Mailer] stalked the twentieth century like a proud satyr: hideous, provocative, funny and insightful, and always true to himself,” writes Jan 7, 2022 1 min read
Jun 09 Joan Didion on Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Joan Didion’s 1979 review of The Executioner’s Song. I think no Jun 9, 2021 1 min read
May 05 Norman Mailer: Prisoner of Sex Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex. He writes: The Prisoner of Sex is an odd book. Mailer refers to May 5, 2021 1 min read