Legacy

Walter J. Minton, the G.P. Putnam’s Sons head who published Norman Mailer and Nabokov’s Lolita, has died at 96.

Via The Nation, Lauren Michele Jackson discusses cultural appropriation and a close reading of Mailer’s essay The White Negro.

Via Deadline, Mailer Tuchman Media launches a film and TV slate anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author.

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.

Via The Guardian, Nnedi Okorafor names The Executioner’s Song the book that changed her mind on capital punishment.

Via Slate, Matthew Dessem’s verse parody occasioned by a reported Trump border plan for a moat filled with snakes.

Via Variety, a Toronto review of The Capote Tapes, whose recordings include Mailer recalling a night of drinking with Truman Capote.

Via the New York Times, an obituary for Barbara Probst Solomon, the memoirist and essayist of Franco-era Spain, who has died at 90.

Jerome Loving’s eulogy for Rip Torn in the Walt Whitman Quarterly mentions Norman Mailer.

Lauren Michele Jackson’s White Negroes, inspired by Mailer’s 1957 essay, offers a nuanced critique of cultural appropriation.