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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.

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

Society board member Bonnie Culver’s stage adaptation of Norris Church Mailer’s memoir A Ticket to the Circus heads into production.

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

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.