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  1. Mailer’s Wake, Among the Masons Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler’s River of Fundament, their opera based on Ancient Evenings, returns to New York for an eight-hour screening in the Grand Lodge on November 14.
  2. Mailer and the Resident Punk Legs McNeil’s new memoir remembers a 1980 party at Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights home — and the night Woody Allen wouldn’t come out of the bathroom.
  3. Boz and Aquarius Gerald R. Lucas · Board member Olivia Rutigliano puts Mailer next to Dickens at CrimeReads — and lands on the thing the two men actually shared.
  4. “Culture Is Worth a Little Risk” For A&E, Adam Janos revisits the Jack Henry Abbott affair — the hardest case against Mailer’s romance with the outlaw.
  5. From the Platoon to the Back Lot In one week Mailer lands on three very different best-of lists — for The Deer Park, The Naked and the Dead, and The Executioner’s Song.
  6. Cutting Up Mailer Gerald R. Lucas · Joel J Miller’s defense of readers who abuse their books opens with the worst offender of all.
  7. Sex Wars, and the Lost Art of the Fair Fight Felice Basbøll, at The Critic, reads Mailer and Germaine Greer as a model of intellectual combat we’ve since mislaid.
  8. An American Book Esquire names The Naked and the Dead one of the most American books of all time.
  9. Taki Remembers His Friend Taki recalls Mailer in a new American Conservative column.
  10. Tough Guys, Reconsidered Scott Adlerberg makes the case for Tough Guys Don’t Dance at CrimeReads.
  11. The Long Life of “Fug” An Economic Times op-ed revives the most durable bit of Naked and the Dead lore.
  12. Piety vs. Artistry On Mailer and the Australian Literary Mausoleum.
  13. Revisiting “The White Negro” Again The Adrenaline Rush That Was Never Yours to Take
  14. Norman Mailer and the Death of the War-Hero Writer It’s easier to be an influencer these days.
  15. Welcome to Violet! Matthew S. Hinton · Announcing the birth of Violet Barbara Mailer.
  16. Isaac Marries Fanny Isaac Barnett (“Barney”) Mailer marries Fanny Schneider in Manhattan.
  17. The Fifth Estate Mailer’s fiftieth birthday and the announcement of “The Fifth Estate.”
  18. Trump, Greenland, and Mailer A Rolling Stone commentary channels Norman Mailer to make sense of Trump’s dream of buying a continent
  19. Norman Mailer at 103 January 31, 1923: A Birthday for a Writer Who Refused to Be Finished
  20. “The Deer Park” Goes Onstage January 21, 1967: Mailer Tests His Novel in Public.
  21. Norman Mailer Speaks His Mind Reford MacDougall · by Reford MacDougall, McGill Daily, January 19, 1962.
  22. NewAds: An “On This Day” Series for 2026 Gerald R. Lucas · This year, we launch a new feature for a new web site.
  23. Mailer Premieres “Wild 90” and Picks a Fight with Film January 7, 1967: One of Mailer’s earliest “I’ll do it myself” moves—self-mythmaking through film.
  24. What Mailer Teaches about NYC Campaigners Gabriel S. Tennen draws a line connecting Mamdani’s 2025 mayoral push with Mailer and Breslin’s 1969 campaign.
  25. David Denby Wins 2025 Lucid Award The Norman Mailer Society is pleased to announce that David Denby is the recipient of the 2025 Lucid Award.
  26. The Son Also Rises John Buffalo Mailer reflects on the life, work, and legacy of his father.
  27. Fighting for One’s Fiction Anthony Giardina revisits Mailer’s 1959 Advertisements for Myself.
  28. How Norman Mailer Changed the Face of Biography Society member Robert Dean Lurie examines Mailer’s unconventional approach to biographical writing.
  29. We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now In his New Statesman article, “We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now,” Lee Siegel considers Norman Mailer’s self-description as a “Left…
  30. The Real “Woke Right” In his “The Real Woke Right,” Geoff Shullenberger examines the rise of right-wing movements that adopt progressive language to advance conservative agendas.
  31. Where Secularism Fails In his Commonweal article, “Where Secularism Fails,” Paul Baumann touches on Norman Mailer’s sharp critiques of modern secularism.
  32. Norman Mailer vs. the Big Empty Examnining Mailer’s critique of America’s corporate and conformist tendencies
  33. Mike Lennon Interviewed on ArtScene, with Erika Funke WVIA Public Media · J.
  34. The Infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as Seen by Novelist Norman Mailer Daniel Hautzinger, for WTTW Chicago, revisits Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago, a work of New Journalism that captures the upheaval of the…
  35. A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience Variety has posted a review of Jeff Zimbalist’s How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer by Owen Gleiberman: Forget what Mailer could or could not get away with…
  36. Readings on the Life, Works, and Conflicts of Norman Mailer LitHub has posted “ What to Read Before and After Seeing How to Come Alive With Norman Mailer.
  37. A Hell of a Performance 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.
  38. Zeitgeist Picks Up Documentary Distribution Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to director Jeff Zimbalist’s documentary How to Come Alive With…
  39. Stiller to Play Mailer 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…
  40. How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer WORLD PREMIERE — Norman Mailer, a towering figure in American literature, had a life that was certainly stranger than fiction.
  41. Bowen Alpern 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…
  42. Ed Fancher, a Founder of The Village Voice, Is Dead at 100 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…
  43. Another Round with Norman Mailer Writing in the Jewish Review of Books, Jesse Tisch offers a comprehensive overview of Mailer’s life and career with emphasis on his Jewishness.
  44. Norman Mailer’s Ripe Garbage Writing for The Baffler, Rob Madole reviews the Library of America’s latest edition of The Naked and the Dead, and discusses Mailer’s experience of death…
  45. Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence Peter Keough reviews A Mysterious Country in The Arts Fuse.
  46. All Hail Mailer! A Belated Eulogy for a Fellow Jeffersonian In Minding the Campus, Eric Clifford Graf counts Mailer as “best of the American Left.” While Mailer himself might take issue with this categorization,…
  47. Chris Pine Recommends Mailer In a recent interview in Esquire, Chris Pine discusses his “Norman Mailer phase” in discussing his book recommendations.
  48. The Importance of Norman Mailer Reviewer David Masciotra has published a detailed review of Mailer’s collection A Mysterious Country.
  49. In the Ring with Mailer In today’s TLS, James Marcus gets in the ring with Mailer by reviewing two books by Society members J.
  50. When American Writers Had Grit David Mikics weighs in on the current cancel Mailer controversy.
  51. A Hundred Years of Norman Mailer Published also for Mailer’s birthday, Ronald Fried has interviewed J.
  52. LOA’s Mailer at 100 To celebrate Mailer’s centenary and their publication of The Naked and the Dead, the Library of America has posted a page with links for Mailer’s life and work.
  53. Let’s All Celebrate Norman Mailer Today, David Mikics writes his own centenary paean to Mailer on Tablet.
  54. 100 Years of Norman Mailer Norman Mailer, one of the most iconic and influential American writers of the 20th century, would have turned 100 years old today, January 31, 2023.
  55. High Life Taki, writing for the Spectator in Australia simultaneously disses the latest “hatchet job” biography of Mailer and gives reasons why we should still be…
  56. What Should Readers Make? An anonymous writer for The Economist asks “What should readers make of Norman Mailer’s life and work?” and attempts to supply an answer.
  57. Critical Mass: Norman Mailer at 100 With Mailer’s 100 birthday approaching, Philip Martin writes an overview of Mailer’s life and highlights recent publications, arguing: He was a technician…
  58. Remembering Norman Mailer In this morning’s San Antonio Express-News, Rafael Castillo pays homage to Mailer for his up-coming centenary.
  59. Fiction for the Ages Today’s The Ohio Star recommends The Naked and the Dead for its “timeless themes and insight into reality, in addition to being enjoyable tales in [its] own…
  60. A Literary Sucker Punch Another not-so-favorable review of Bradford’s new biography of Mailer appears today in The Guardian.
  61. Revisiting Naked In today’s Wall Street Journal, Sam Sacks reviews the new Library of America volume Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946.
  62. Mailer’s Last Days Today’s National Review has a dual review featuring J.
  63. The Making of Norman Mailer 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…
  64. Mailer on Pot 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…
  65. The Best Gift Books 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,…
  66. When Vonnegut met Mailer in Cape Cod’s “Helltown” Provincetown was a place of enchantment, light, and art.
  67. Culture That Made Me: Colm Tóibín on Hemingway, Sean-nós and Cinema In advance of his appearance at West Cork Literary Festival, the Co Wexford-born writer selects some of his touchstone references in literature, film and music.
  68. Current Mailer Projects A roundup of current and forthcoming Mailer-related books, films, and projects compiled by J. Michael Lennon.
  69. 2021 Lucid Winner Maggie McKinley wins the Robert F.
  70. Mailer Centenary Projects J. Michael Lennon · Books, editions, films, plays, and documentaries in the works for Norman Mailer’s 2023 centenary, as J. Michael Lennon listed them in May 2022.
  71. April 16, 1973: from Publishers Weekly Grosset & Dunlap was founded in 1898 and, after having numerous owners, is now a children’s imprint of the Penguin Group.
  72. The 8 Best Sports Biographies Every Fan Needs To Read The Fight takes the number one position: Centered around one of the biggest boxing matches of all time, this 1975 book details the story of Muhammad Ali and…
  73. James Gray To Write & Direct Drama Series About Norman Mailer James Gray will write and direct a series about Norman Mailer based on J.
  74. World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring Mailer’s The Fight comes out on top in “ World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring .” Kieran Spratt writes: The meeting between an aging…
  75. A Nuanced Reading of “Canceled” Writers Readers respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about his father and other “canceled” writers in the Boston Globe.
  76. 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.
  77. 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 for its antiquated racial language.” He…
  78. 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 “free exchange of ideas” in…
  79. 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 has a thoroughly reactionary,…
  80. Mailer Controversy on Podcast On the BFG Podcast #037, renowned book critic Carolyn Kellogg joins Neal Pollack to talk about the Cancel Mailer controversy, and Carolyn refers to the…
  81. 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 facts, but his point is strong.
  82. “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 of current events and concludes “For all…
  83. 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 Tomiwa Owolade.
  84. Mailer and the Monoculture More on the cancel Mailer controversy.
  85. Was Norman Mailer Canceled? His Publishers Say No. You can’t cancel Norman Mailer.
  86. The Execution and Un-Execution Of Norman Mailer “Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere,” writes Neal Pollack.
  87. The Challenge and Reward of Norman Mailer Norman Mailer in Context has been published by Cambridge University Press, edited by Mailer Society president Maggie McKinley.
  88. The Norman Mailer Center, 2008–2021 The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, founded after Mailer’s death to nurture new writers, ceased its activities in 2021. Its story, from the Provincetown summers to Wilkes University.
  89. 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.
  90. Norman Mailer: Prisoner of Sex Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex.
  91. A Badge of Honor Mind you, to be canceled is to be recognized as very good, so my friend Norman Mailer has to be first in line.
  92. When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up 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…
  93. Remembering Chris Busa Christopher Busa—founding editor of Provincetown Arts, Mailer’s friend and neighbor, and a member of the Society’s Board from its founding—died on June 20, 2020. He was 73.
  94. 31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village 6sqft’s roundup of 31 literary icons of Greenwich Village lists Mailer’s 73 Perry Street at number 15.
  95. In Memoriam: Dr. Wilbur Hayes The Society mourns the passing of Dr. Wilbur Hayes, an original member and a friend of Norman Mailer.
  96. Jason Miller Discusses the 2019 Conference in Revise This! Jason Miller discusses the Society’s 2019 conference in the November issue of Revise This!
  97. Walter J. Minton, Mailer’s Putnam Publisher, Dies at 96 Walter J. Minton, the G.P. Putnam’s Sons head who published Norman Mailer and Nabokov’s Lolita, has died at 96.
  98. Lauren Michele Jackson on Cultural Appropriation Via The Nation, Lauren Michele Jackson discusses cultural appropriation and a close reading of Mailer’s essay The White Negro.
  99. Mailer Tuchman Media Debuts Film and TV Slate Via Deadline, Mailer Tuchman Media launches a film and TV slate anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author.
  100. Abbie Hoffman’s Papers Become a College Collection Via the New York Times, Abbie Hoffman’s papers become a college archive, including a Norman Mailer plea to New York’s governor for leniency.
  101. Nnedi Okorafor: The Executioner’s Song Changed My Mind Via The Guardian, Nnedi Okorafor names The Executioner’s Song the book that changed her mind on capital punishment.
  102. Slate Parodies Trump’s Snake-Filled Border Moat Via Slate, Matthew Dessem’s verse parody occasioned by a reported Trump border plan for a moat filled with snakes.
  103. The Capote Tapes Via Variety, a Toronto review of The Capote Tapes, whose recordings include Mailer recalling a night of drinking with Truman Capote.
  104. Barbara Probst Solomon Dies at 90 Via the New York Times, an obituary for Barbara Probst Solomon, the memoirist and essayist of Franco-era Spain, who has died at 90.
  105. Jerome Loving’s Rip Torn Eulogy Mentions Mailer Jerome Loving’s eulogy for Rip Torn in the Walt Whitman Quarterly mentions Norman Mailer.
  106. White Negroes: Jackson’s Critique of Cultural Appropriation Lauren Michele Jackson’s White Negroes, inspired by Mailer’s 1957 essay, offers a nuanced critique of cultural appropriation.
  107. ‘The Armies of the Night’ in an Age of Youth Protest Francis Wade rereads Mailer’s The Armies of the Night for the LA Review of Books in an age of youth protest.
  108. The Fugs Will Exorcise Washington Again Hudson Valley One reports that the Fugs will reprise their Pentagon exorcism at the Byrdcliffe Barn.
  109. Hipster Elegies For The Hedgehog Review, Greg Jackson traces the death and life of the great American hipster as an alternative cultural history.
  110. Rip Torn, Wild Man and Actor, Dies at 88 Wicked Local: Provincetown remembers Rip Torn — actor, Mailer collaborator, and Provincetown fixture — dead at 88.
  111. Mailer on the Moon No one captured the Apollo era quite like Mailer did.
  112. Review of American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race J. Michael Lennon reviews Douglas Brinkley’s account of JFK’s space legacy with an eye toward its Mailer connections.
  113. The Murderer, the Writer, the Reckoning For the NYRB, John J. Lennon, imprisoned at Sing Sing, reflects on Norman Mailer, Jack Henry Abbott, and the Abbott affair.
  114. Two Vintage Mailer Interviews Now on YouTube Two vintage Mailer interviews are now on YouTube: Jeremy Isaacs’s Face to Face and Jana Wendt’s Uncensored.
  115. Norman Mailer, the Moon Landing, and New Journalism WVIA’s Keystone Edition interviews J. Michael Lennon about Mailer, the moon landing, and New Journalism.
  116. Evidence of our Hubris. Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
  117. Tom Wolfe vs. Updike, Mailer, and Other Literary Feuds Salon’s Graham Tarrant revisits Mailer’s timeless literary feuds with Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe.
  118. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 These are the Apollo 11 secrets no-one ever told you about.
  119. Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin Ran to Win in 1969 Patch revisits Mailer and Jimmy Breslin’s 1969 New York mayoral campaign: they ran to win, but they didn’t.
  120. Mailer and Breslin’s 1969 Mayoral Run The Washington Post recalls Mailer and Jimmy Breslin’s entertaining but ineffective 1969 run for mayor of New York.
  121. Danielle Mailer’s Art at the David M. Hunt Library Danielle Mailer’s paintings go on view at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, Connecticut.
  122. Esquire Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden to Step Down The New York Post reports that Esquire editor-in-chief Jay Fielden will step down from the Hearst magazine that once published Mailer.
  123. Special 50th Anniversary Release from TASCHEN Norman Mailer’s MoonFire Is Getting a Special 50th Anniversary Release from TASCHEN.
  124. Norman Mailer Leaves Court, May 1961 Via GoErie: a 1961 news photo of Mailer leaving a Manhattan courtroom as sentencing is deferred in the Adele Morales stabbing case.
  125. The Nonfiction Novel Fifty years ago today the Pulitzer Prize was awarded to Mailer for his “nonfiction novel” Armies of the Night, an account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march on the Pentagon.
  126. Apollo 11 at 50 Recalls Mailer’s Moon Landing Classic A 50th-anniversary Taschen edition of Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon recalls the epic journey of Apollo 11.
  127. Student Project Features Mailer MGA Graduate Students Publish Digital Humanities Project About Norman Mailer.
  128. Feel the Punch of a Heavyweight An Irish Times review lauds Mailer’s 1975 account of the Ali–Foreman fight as prose that carries the drama of the ring with novelistic force.
  129. Mailer For Mayor! Joe Flaherty captures the chaos, charisma, and contradictions of Mailer’s infamous run for New York City mayor.
  130. Mailer’s Career Spanned 59 Years Emily Temple of LitHub finds that Mailer’s writing career spanned 59 years, just shy of Borges’ 62.
  131. Diana Athill Dies Diana Athill, the British editor who handled Mailer’s books at André Deutsch and later became a celebrated memoirist, has died at 101.
  132. Beverly Bentley, 1930–2018 Actress, theater director, and Norman Mailer’s fourth wife, Beverly Bentley died in Provincetown in September 2018. She was 88.
  133. In Long Branch, a rock for native-son Norman Mailer LONG BRANCH – They were here and then they were gone.
  134. The Barry Leeds Travel Fund In 2015 the Society established the Barry Leeds Travel Fund in memory of its founding vice president, with a gift from his daughter, Dr. Ashley Leeds: travel grants for students coming to the annual conference, and an award for scholars going to the Mailer papers at the Harry Ransom Center.
  135. Remembering Barry H. Leeds Barry Leeds—teacher, the first Mailer scholar, and a founder and vice president of the Norman Mailer Society—died on April 15, 2015. He was 74.
  136. Remembering Deborah Martinson Deborah Martinson—biographer of Lillian Hellman, Occidental College professor, a founding member and Board member of the Norman Mailer Society, and organizer of many of its conferences—died on April 26, 2014. She was 67.
  137. Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer On a brisk December day in 1972, the SS Statendam left New York Harbor with an extraordinary passenger list.
  138. What Would Mailer Say? The nation’s columnists have exhausted themselves searching fiction for anecdotes and admonitions that will illuminate David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.
  139. A Good Fight Pamela Paul asks “Where have all the fighters gone?” in her post on Arts Beat reporting on the recent Norman Mailer Center Gala.
  140. From the NMS President As many of you may know, John Buffalo Mailer has been waging a vigorous campaign to get the Village Voice, the publication his father helped found, to cease publishing sexually exploitive…
  141. Why Mailer Matters: Three Reasons by: J. Michael Lennon, authorized biographer and Professor Emeritus, Wilkes University 1.
  142. Mornings with Mailer A RECOLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP by DWAYNE RAYMOND Published to Coincide with What Would Have Been Norman Mailer’s 87th Birthday — An Intimate Portrait of the Great Writer’s Final Years In Mornings with…
  143. Mailer’s Self-Portrait at Auction The after-hours sketch Mailer made for Burt Britton at the Village Vanguard, the first of Britton’s famous collection of writers’ self-portraits, went to auction in 2009.
  144. Mailer Writing Awards Announced The new Mailer writing awards were announced on February 23 at a Washington, D.C.
  145. Mailer’s Final Gift In The Daily Beast, Lawrence Schiller writes about Norman Mailer’s literacy legacy and the founding of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony at his home in Provincetown, MA.
  146. Obama Like JFK Fred Kaplan, in his article " Forget FDR and Lincoln; Obama Is Most Like JFK " for Slate, argues that “the Kennedy-Obama parallels are, in fact, deeper than they might seem.” Within, he cites –…
  147. The Edge of Mystery Matt Bia, a political commentator for the New York Times Magazine, likens Barack Obama with Mailer’s hopes for a President Kennedy in his “Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” Bai begins " The Edge…
  148. Writers Colony Mentioned Wicked Local Provincetown has an article today about the spring opening of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
  149. NM Writers Colony Today, the Cape Cod Times discusses the upcoming launch of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA.
  150. The Mailer Files, Part 2 I blogged last week about the FBI’s fifteen-year investigation of Norman Mailer, and this morning, The Telegraph continues the story about the notoriously paranoid J.
  151. A Final Report from Mailer’s Desk A year after Mailer’s death, his editorial assistant Dwayne Raymond wrote from the attic study in Provincetown where they had worked on Mailer’s last books. The study and its desk are now at Wilkes University.
  152. Mailer Biography Goes to Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster signed J. Michael Lennon’s authorized biography of Norman Mailer in 2008; five years later it appeared as Norman Mailer: A Double Life.
  153. Carnegie Hall Tribute to the Life of Norman Mailer Random House and the family of Norman Mailer will present “The Time of His Time: A Celebration of Life of Norman Mailer,” which will take place at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 4 PM…
  154. Norman Mailer, First Editions, 1948-2007 Looking to purchase books by Norman Mailer?
  155. Mailer Memorial Date Set Six weeks after Norman Mailer’s death on November 10, 2007, the Society announced the date of his Carnegie Hall memorial, and Norris Church Mailer named the Society to receive gifts in his memory. How the Society marked his death, from the family’s announcement to a day of tributes in Provincetown.
  156. From the Editor of the Review We are deeply saddened at the passing of Norman Mailer, a literary, cultural, and intellectual giant.
  157. Mailer Passes at 84 With great sorrow, the family of Norman Mailer announces his passing on November 10, at Mt.
  158. Mr. Mailer Receives Hadada Award On April 23, 2007, Mr. Mailer received the Hadada Award from The Paris Review in a New York ceremony.
  159. Mailer’s Archive Goes to Austin In April 2005 Mailer sold his archive to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas for $2.5 million: how the papers were saved, what they hold, and what has come of them.