Legacy

You can’t cancel Norman Mailer.

“Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere,” writes Neal Pollack.

Norman Mailer in Context has been published by Cambridge University Press, edited by Mailer Society president Maggie McKinley.

Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Joan Didion’s 1979 review of The Executioner’s Song .

Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex .

Mind you, to be canceled is to be recognized as very good, so my friend Norman Mailer has to be first in line.

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…

6sqft’s roundup of 31 literary icons of Greenwich Village lists Mailer’s 73 Perry Street at number 15.

The Society mourns the passing of Dr. Wilbur Hayes, an original member and a friend of Norman Mailer.

Jason Miller discusses the Society’s 2019 conference in the November issue of Revise This!