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  1. A House by the Sea Peter Swanson puts Tough Guys Don’t Dance on his CrimeReads list of great suspense stories set in a house by the sea.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. “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.
  6. 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.
  7. Cutting Up Mailer Gerald R. Lucas · Joel J Miller’s defense of readers who abuse their books opens with the worst offender of all.
  8. 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.
  9. An American Book Esquire names The Naked and the Dead one of the most American books of all time.
  10. Taki Remembers His Friend Taki recalls Mailer in a new American Conservative column.
  11. Tough Guys, Reconsidered Scott Adlerberg makes the case for Tough Guys Don’t Dance at CrimeReads.
  12. The Long Life of “Fug” An Economic Times op-ed revives the most durable bit of Naked and the Dead lore.
  13. Piety vs. Artistry On Mailer and the Australian Literary Mausoleum.
  14. Revisiting “The White Negro” Again The Adrenaline Rush That Was Never Yours to Take
  15. Norman Mailer and the Death of the War-Hero Writer It’s easier to be an influencer these days.
  16. Trump, Greenland, and Mailer A Rolling Stone commentary channels Norman Mailer to make sense of Trump’s dream of buying a continent
  17. 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.
  18. Fighting for One’s Fiction Anthony Giardina revisits Mailer’s 1959 Advertisements for Myself.
  19. McCarthy and Mailer Luc Haasbroek on Norman Mailer and Cormac McCarthy.
  20. Mike Lennon Interview J. Michael Lennon speaks about Mailer’s newly released Lipton’s Journal and related projects.
  21. Happy Birthday, Norman! Today, Norman Mailer would have been 102.
  22. How Norman Mailer Changed the Face of Biography Society member Robert Dean Lurie examines Mailer’s unconventional approach to biographical writing.
  23. 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…
  24. 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.
  25. The Ghosts of Tough Guys In her recent CrimeReads article, “The Ghosts of Tough Guys Don’t Dance ,” Society member Olivia Rutigliano examines Mailer’s 1984 novel…
  26. Where Secularism Fails In his Commonweal article, “Where Secularism Fails,” Paul Baumann touches on Norman Mailer’s sharp critiques of modern secularism.
  27. Norman Mailer vs. the Big Empty Examnining Mailer’s critique of America’s corporate and conformist tendencies
  28. Mike Lennon Interviewed on ArtScene, with Erika Funke WVIA Public Media · J.
  29. 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…
  30. 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…
  31. 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.
  32. Weekend Documentary Premiere Several Mailer family and Society members will join Jeff Zimbalist at the premiere of How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer for question and…
  33. Lennon and Mailer on Talk Louisiana American psychoanalyst, writer, and daughter of legendary novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, Susan Mailer is joined by writer J.
  34. Documentary Trailer A trailer for How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer has been posted.
  35. 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.
  36. 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…
  37. 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…
  38. 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.
  39. 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…
  40. 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.
  41. 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…
  42. Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence Peter Keough reviews A Mysterious Country in The Arts Fuse.
  43. 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,…
  44. The Reckless Truth-Teller The podcast Open Source “un-forgets” Norman Mailer on their latest episode “Norman Mailer Turns 100” with an interview of the editors of A Mysterious…
  45. 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.
  46. Let’s All Celebrate Norman Mailer Today, David Mikics writes his own centenary paean to Mailer on Tablet.
  47. Out Tomorrow: A Mysterious Country Edited by John Buffalo Mailer and J.
  48. 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…
  49. 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…
  50. Remembering Norman Mailer In this morning’s San Antonio Express-News, Rafael Castillo pays homage to Mailer for his up-coming centenary.
  51. 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…
  52. A Literary Sucker Punch Another not-so-favorable review of Bradford’s new biography of Mailer appears today in The Guardian.
  53. Mailer on “Gilmore Girls” Showbiz Cheat Sheet’s Elise Nelson reminisces about the time Norman Mailer guest starred on Gilmore Girls and explains why Mailer was able to improvise…
  54. 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.
  55. Mailer’s Last Days Today’s National Review has a dual review featuring J.
  56. 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,…
  57. The Best Books to Start Reading Norman Mailer Society member and scholar Robert J.
  58. MGA Post Follow-Up Middle Georgia State University has posted a blurb about the recent Lipton’s Journal excerpt published by Times Literary Supplement.
  59. Lipton’s Journal Excerpted in the TLS The Time Literary Supplement has published an excerpt from the forthcoming Lipton’s Journal: “ Saint and Psychopath .” Co-edited by J.
  60. Rare-Book Dealer Charged After Pilfered Eagles Lyrics Come to Light Glenn Horowitz and two other men are accused of conspiring to sell Don Henley’s notes, including the words to “Hotel California.” He placed the papers of…
  61. The Outer Limits In “The Shores of Bohemia,” John Taylor Williams explores 50 years in the iconoclastic summer colonies of Cape Cod.
  62. When Vonnegut met Mailer in Cape Cod’s “Helltown” Provincetown was a place of enchantment, light, and art.
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. 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…
  66. James Gray To Write & Direct Drama Series About Norman Mailer James Gray will write and direct a series about Norman Mailer based on J.
  67. Pinckney on Mailer Darryl Pinckney writes “ My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours ” in The Nation.
  68. 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…
  69. A Nuanced Reading of “Canceled” Writers Readers respond to Michael Mailer’s piece about his father and other “canceled” writers in the Boston Globe.
  70. 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.
  71. 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…
  72. 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…
  73. 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,…
  74. 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…
  75. 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.
  76. “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…
  77. 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.
  78. 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.
  79. Norman Mailer: Prisoner of Sex Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex.
  80. 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.
  81. 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…
  82. Photos from Maidstone John Whiteway writes: In 1968 as a 19 year old college student I came down to New York from Canada hoping to get work in the film business for the summer.
  83. 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.
  84. Bonnie Culver’s Play Adapts A Ticket to the Circus Society board member Bonnie Culver’s stage adaptation of Norris Church Mailer’s memoir A Ticket to the Circus heads into production.
  85. Jason Miller Discusses the 2019 Conference in Revise This! Jason Miller discusses the Society’s 2019 conference in the November issue of Revise This!
  86. 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.
  87. 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.
  88. 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.
  89. 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.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. The Capote Tapes Via Variety, a Toronto review of The Capote Tapes, whose recordings include Mailer recalling a night of drinking with Truman Capote.
  93. 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.
  94. Jerome Loving’s Rip Torn Eulogy Mentions Mailer Jerome Loving’s eulogy for Rip Torn in the Walt Whitman Quarterly mentions Norman Mailer.
  95. 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.
  96. ‘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.
  97. The Fugs Will Exorcise Washington Again Hudson Valley One reports that the Fugs will reprise their Pentagon exorcism at the Byrdcliffe Barn.
  98. Hipster Elegies For The Hedgehog Review, Greg Jackson traces the death and life of the great American hipster as an alternative cultural history.
  99. Rip Torn, Wild Man and Actor, Dies at 88 Wicked Local: Provincetown remembers Rip Torn — actor, Mailer collaborator, and Provincetown fixture — dead at 88.
  100. Mailer on the Moon No one captured the Apollo era quite like Mailer did.
  101. 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.
  102. 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.
  103. 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.
  104. Norman Mailer, the Moon Landing, and New Journalism WVIA’s Keystone Edition interviews J. Michael Lennon about Mailer, the moon landing, and New Journalism.
  105. Evidence of our Hubris. Norman Mailer saw the lunar landing not as a triumph for mankind but as evidence of our hubris.
  106. 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.
  107. The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 These are the Apollo 11 secrets no-one ever told you about.
  108. 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.
  109. 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.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. Special 50th Anniversary Release from TASCHEN Norman Mailer’s MoonFire Is Getting a Special 50th Anniversary Release from TASCHEN.
  113. 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.
  114. Magical Reality: New Works Danielle Mailer exhibits colorful narrative paintings in “Magical Reality: New Works” at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village.
  115. 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.
  116. 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.
  117. Student Project Features Mailer MGA Graduate Students Publish Digital Humanities Project About Norman Mailer.
  118. 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.
  119. Mailer For Mayor! Joe Flaherty captures the chaos, charisma, and contradictions of Mailer’s infamous run for New York City mayor.
  120. Mailer’s Career Spanned 59 Years Emily Temple of LitHub finds that Mailer’s writing career spanned 59 years, just shy of Borges’ 62.
  121. 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.
  122. Mailer in the News, 2017 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2017, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  123. Mailer in the News, 2016 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2016, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  124. Mailer in the News, 2015 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2015, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  125. Mailer in the News, 2014 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2014, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  126. Mailer in the News, 2013 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2013, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  127. Mailer in the News, 2012 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2012, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  128. Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer On a brisk December day in 1972, the SS Statendam left New York Harbor with an extraordinary passenger list.
  129. 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.
  130. Mailer in the News, 2011 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2011, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  131. Mailer in the News, 2010 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2010, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  132. Mailer in the News, 2009 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2009, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  133. Mailer Wins Norman Mailer has been inducted into the Brooklyn Hall of Fame, thanks in no little part to Society members, I’m sure.
  134. 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.
  135. Mailer in the News, 2008 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2008, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  136. Mailer in “Doc” Immy Humes’s documentary about her father, Harold L. “Doc” Humes, co-founder of The Paris Review and, by one account, manager of Mailer’s 1961 run for mayor, aired on PBS on December 9, 2008, with Mailer among its witnesses.
  137. 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.
  138. Mailer in the News, 2007 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2007, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  139. Mr. Mailer Receives Hadada Award On April 23, 2007, Mr. Mailer received the Hadada Award from The Paris Review in a New York ceremony.
  140. Mailer in the News, 2005 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2005, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.
  141. 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.
  142. Mailer in the News, 2004 Coverage of Norman Mailer and the Society in 2004, gathered from the Society’s old news feed.