Legacy

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

Francis Wade rereads Mailer’s The Armies of the Night for the LA Review of Books in an age of youth protest.

Hudson Valley One reports that the Fugs will reprise their Pentagon exorcism at the Byrdcliffe Barn.

For The Hedgehog Review, Greg Jackson traces the death and life of the great American hipster as an alternative cultural history.

Wicked Local: Provincetown remembers Rip Torn — actor, Mailer collaborator, and Provincetown fixture — dead at 88.

No one captured the Apollo era quite like Mailer did.

J. Michael Lennon reviews Douglas Brinkley’s account of JFK’s space legacy with an eye toward its Mailer connections.

For the NYRB, John J. Lennon, imprisoned at Sing Sing, reflects on Norman Mailer, Jack Henry Abbott, and the Abbott affair.

Two vintage Mailer interviews are now on YouTube: Jeremy Isaacs’s Face to Face and Jana Wendt’s Uncensored.

WVIA’s Keystone Edition interviews J. Michael Lennon about Mailer, the moon landing, and New Journalism.