Via *The Nation*, “[Lauren Michele Jackson Wants to Change How We Talk About Appropriation](https://www.thenation.com/article/lauren-michele-jackson-white-negroes-interview/)”: “I honestly can’t remember when I first encountered [White Negro|Mailer’s essay]([The)], but it was in the back of my head as I was compiling this project and thinking of a name for it.

Via *Deadline*, “[Mailer Tuchman Media Debuts Film And TV Slate Anchored By Norman Mailer Drama](https://deadline.com/2019/11/mailer-tuchman-media-debuts-film-and-tv-slate-norman-mailer-drama-1202774991/)”: “Mailer Tuchman Media has launched with an initial slate of film and TV projects anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author/provocateur.

Via *New York Times*: “[Steal This Archive?

[Nnedi Okorafor](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/nnedi-okorafor-books-that-made-me) on influential books: “**The book that changed my mind**: *The Executioner’s Song* by Norman Mailer.

[Michael Lennon]([J.)], [Pedro Lennon]([Donna)], and [R.

The [Mailer Society/Conference/2019 Wilkes-Barre, PA|2019 Conference]([Norman)] begins tomorrow.

Via *Slate*, Matthew Dessem has some words for Donald Trump: “[Some Lines, On the Occasion of Discovering That One of Donald Trump’s Border Plans Was a Moat Filled With Snakes](https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/donald-trump-snake-alligator-moat-kubla-khan-coleridge.html).”

Via *Variety*, [Toronto Film Review: “The Capote Tapes”](https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/the-capote-tapes-review-1203328580/): The people on the tapes include Mailer, who tells a terrific story about drinking with Truman in an old Irish bar and realizing what adrenaline (and courage) Capote must have lived with at every moment, and a friend who says that Capote swore by the motto, “Don’t ever let the truth get in the way of a good story.”

Via the *New York Times*: [Barbara Probst Solomon, Who Wrote of Spain Under Franco, Dies at 90](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/obituaries/barbara-probst-solomon-dies-at-90.html).

[Loving]([Jerome)] has written a [eulogy for Rip Torn](https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2343&context=wwqr) for the *Walt Whitman Quarterly* in which Mailer is mentioned.