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  1. Erik Nakjavani The Board of the Norman Mailer Society · Erik G.R. Nakjavani, Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, a founding member of the Hemingway Society, and a longtime friend of the Mailer Society, died on September 27, 2026.
  2. Barbara Mailer Wasserman Matthew S. Hinton · Writer, Sister of Norman Mailer dies at 98.
  3. New Editorial Assistant: Spring 2026 Graduate student Josie Hadaway joins the Review team.
  4. Changes in Society Leadership The Norman Mailer Society announces a series of leadership and editorial transitions.
  5. David Denby Wins 2025 Lucid Award The Norman Mailer Society is pleased to announce that David Denby is the recipient of the 2025 Lucid Award.
  6. Rutigliano Elected to Board Olivia Rutigliano-Mailer has been elected to the Executive Board.
  7. 2024 Update & Fund Drive Greetings.
  8. Documentary Trailer A trailer for How to Come Alive with Norman Mailer has been posted.
  9. Society Update Greetings, members of the Norman Mailer Society!
  10. Review Delay From the editor of The Mailer Review, Phil Sipiora: This is to inform everyone that we remain slowed down by supply chain delays.
  11. Pinckney on Mailer Darryl Pinckney writes “ My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours ” in The Nation.
  12. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93.
  13. Mailer and the Monoculture More on the cancel Mailer controversy.
  14. Was Norman Mailer Canceled? His Publishers Say No. You can’t cancel Norman Mailer.
  15. The Execution and Un-Execution Of Norman Mailer “Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere,” writes Neal Pollack.
  16. Cape Cod author Peter Manso, 80, Dies Manso, 80, was known for sprawling, extensively researched biographies of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando, and for a book recounting the murder of fashion…
  17. Call for Submissions: The Norman Mailer Society Graduate Writing Award In 2019 the Society launched its first Graduate Writing Award, $500 and a chance at publication in The Mailer Review for graduate work about or inspired by Mailer. The call, its terms, and what the Society’s records show of the award afterward.
  18. 2019 Membership Drive Dear Members of the Mailer Society, Happy New Year!
  19. Norman Mailer: Works and Days Special offer for Mailer Society members.
  20. Norman Mailer and the Siege of Chicago No writer plunged more vigorously into the chaotic energies of the 1960s than Norman Mailer, fearlessly revolutionizing literary norms and genres to capture the decade’s political, social, and…
  21. In Long Branch, a rock for native-son Norman Mailer LONG BRANCH – They were here and then they were gone.
  22. Norman Mailer Plaque Dedicationand Family Reception On Tuesday, May 22nd, the Long Branch Historical Association will be dedicating a plaque at the Boardwalk in memory of Long Branch native son Norman Kingsley Mailer.
  23. Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster”: A Selective Bibliography By: JASON MOSSER. . . Adams, Laura. Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer.
  24. Colum McCann to Speak at Conference 2017 We are pleased to announce the keynote speaker at the 2107 Mailer Society conference will be Colum McCann.
  25. Norman Mailer Society 2017 Membership Drive Welcome to the 2017 Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive.
  26. The Norman Mailer Society 2016 Membership Drive Welcome to the 2016 Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive.
  27. 2015 Lucid Award The recipient of the 2015 Lucid Award goes to Kevin Schultz.
  28. The Barry Leeds Travel Fund In 2015 the Society established the Barry Leeds Travel Fund in memory of its founding vice president, with a gift from his daughter, Dr. Ashley Leeds: travel grants for students coming to the annual conference, and an award for scholars going to the Mailer papers at the Harry Ransom Center.
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  30. A Letter from Mike I write to ask you to consider sending a proposal for a paper, panel or some other presentation for the 13th annual Mailer Society conference in Provincetown, Massachusetts, October 1-4.
  31. 2015 Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive Dear Mailerians! In celebration of what would have been Norman Mailer’s 92nd birthday, this post officially kicks off the 2015 Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive.
  32. The Mystery of Katrina of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade Proposal is Solved | Brooklyn Heights Blog The Mystery of Katrina of the Brooklyn Heights Promenade Proposal is Solved | Brooklyn Heights Blog As previously reported, over the weekend someone posted a giant banner facing the Brooklyn Heights…
  33. From Bonnie Culver Thursday welcome and registration begins at 4 p.m.
  34. Mailer Gala, 2014 News Today, the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony announced that Don DeLillo, Billy Collins, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, will be the 2014 recipients of the prestigious Norman Mailer Prize.
  35. Patricia Ahearn Patricia Ahearn—artist, bookseller, co-founder of Quill & Brush, and co-author with her husband, Allen, of standard guides to book collecting—died in May 2014. The Society’s Board remembered her as a former Board member.
  36. The Two Mailers Two Mailers is a new play by Ronald K. Fried inspired by “The Big Empty,” a book of conversations between legendary author Norman Mailer and his youngest son, the journalist and playwright John…
  37. Call for Papers (#MailerConf14) The Wilkes University graduate Creative Writing Department is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 12th annual meeting of the Norman Mailer Society, which will be held October 9-11, 2014 on…
  38. 2014 Membership Drive In celebration of what would have been Norman Mailer’s 91st birthday, this e-mail officially kicks off the 2014 Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive.
  39. Ransom Center Acquires Papers of Writer Barbara Probst Solomon AUSTIN, Texas — The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has acquired the archive of Barbara Probst Solomon, a prolific writer and…
  40. The Review: Upcoming in the 2013 Issue I am pleased to inform you that we are well along in preparing the 2013 issue.
  41. Law & Disorder Society president Mark Olshaker has published LAW & DISORDER, a book dealing with themes that were very important to Norman Mailer: the meaning of justice and the struggle to overcome prejudice,…
  42. 2013 Membership Drive In celebration of what would have been Norman Mailer’s 90th birthday, this post officially kicks off the 2013 Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive.
  43. CFP: The Review, Volume 7 The 2013 issue of The Mailer Review will emphasize the theme of “Norman Mailer and Contemporary Literature.” If you have an interest in contributing, please contact the editor, Phillip Sipiora…
  44. Dahlby Correction Tracy Dahlby’s article in The Fall 2011 issue of The Mailer Review contains a punctuation error.
  45. NMS Conference 2012 The Tenth Annual International Conference of The Norman Mailer Society will be held in Provincetown, Massachusetts on October 10, 11, 12 and 13 (2012).
  46. CFP: NMS Conference 2012 The Norman Mailer Society Tenth International Conference October 10-13, 2012 • Provincetown, Massachusetts The Program Committee seeks proposals for panel presentations during the Tenth Annual…
  47. John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements John Mailer, son of Norman Mailer, joins 80,000 supporters of campaign on Change.org to ban sex ads that may feature minors on Village Voice-owned Backpage.com John Buffalo Mailer, the youngest son…
  48. CFP: The Review, Volume 6 The Mailer Review is calling for papers on “Why Mailer Matters,” a special emphasis in the sixth volume of the Review (Fall 2012).
  49. Join Us on Facebook Just a reminder: the Society has a presence on Facebook – currently with quite a few members.
  50. Preview: The Review Volume 5 I am pleased to inform you that we are well along in preparing the 2011 issue.
  51. Literary Warriors Masculinity, toughness, fantasy women, violence, war, boxing, guns – these are the themes that unite two of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway.
  52. Norris Church Mailer Memorial A memorial for Norris Church Mailer will be held next spring in New York, and another in Provincetown.
  53. Norris Church Mailer, 1949–2010 It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Norris Church Mailer, widow of Norman Mailer, who died November 21, 2010, after a long and valiant struggle with cancer.
  54. Norris Church Mailer: Family Press Release Norris Church Mailer (born Barbara Jean Davis in 1949) died at her home in Brooklyn Heights, New York at 10:55 AM on November 21, 2010.
  55. Pamuk Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s first Nobel laureate in literature, was honored on Tuesday by the Norman Mailer Center in Massachusetts with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
  56. Mike Lennon on Mailer’s War, in the TLS In the summer of 2010 Mailer’s authorized biographer, J. Michael Lennon, wrote to the Times Literary Supplement to set out what Mailer did in the Pacific war, and how it became The Naked and the Dead.
  57. Membership Letter, Spring 2010 Dear Mailerians! Here we are entering the 8th year of The Norman Mailer Society.
  58. NMS By-Laws This Society shall be called the Norman Mailer Society.
  59. The Review, Volume 3 One of the century’s greatest American authors – Norman Mailer – has entered the pantheon of great writers, leaving a legacy that will offer scholars, researchers and fans endless territory for…
  60. Writers Colony and NCTE Announce Winners The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony have awarded the first annual Norman Mailer High School Nonfiction Writing Award to EMILY SWANAGIN of Alabama…
  61. Richard Poirier Dies at 83 Richard Poirier—critic, founder of Raritan, a founder of the Library of America, and author of Norman Mailer (1972), one of the first and sharpest studies of Mailer’s work—died in New York on August 15, 2009. He was 83.
  62. Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963-69 A second printing of 50 copies of 76 Mailer letters concerning the conception, composition, publication and reception of his 1965 novel, An American Dream, has been made available to The Mailer…
  63. CFP: The Review, Volume 4 Norman Mailer / Ernest Hemingway Call for Papers: 2010 The Mailer Review is calling for papers on “Norman Mailer / Ernest Hemingway,” a special emphasis in the fourth volume of the Review (Fall…
  64. A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels The following is an excerpt from The Mailer Review Volume 2 of Robert J.
  65. Call for Papers: The Review, Volume 3 The editors of The Mailer Review are particularly interested in essays that focus on Norman Mailer’s film work and his non-fiction, especially Oswald’s Tale.
  66. Announcing Volume 2 Where might you expect to find television interviewer Charlie Rose, magazine editor Tina Brown, authors Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, E.
  67. Key Texts for Mailer Studies Key critical books and bibliographies for the study of Norman Mailer are arranged chronologically.
  68. Announcing the Mailer Review The inaugural issue of The Mailer Review contains an excerpt from Mr.
  69. A New Journal for Mailer Studies At the fourth annual conference in Provincetown (October 12-14, 2006), the membership voted to establish The Mailer Review, co-sponsored by the University of South Florida.