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  1. 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.
  2. A Letter from the President Matthew S. Hinton · A message from President Matthew Hinton on the Society’s work, the 2025 conference, and the year ahead.
  3. Society Updates and Transition in Leadership Gerald R. Lucas · A number of updates and announcements begin 2026.
  4. A Letter from the President Gerald R. Lucas · It’s been my pleasure to serve as your president.
  5. Changes in Society Leadership The Norman Mailer Society announces a series of leadership and editorial transitions.
  6. Bowen Alpern Bowen died in the early evening of Wednesday, October 4, after a year-long journey with a malignant brain tumor that had culminated in twelve weeks…
  7. Mailer Centenary Projects J. Michael Lennon · Books, editions, films, plays, and documentaries in the works for Norman Mailer’s 2023 centenary, as J. Michael Lennon listed them in May 2022.
  8. The Norman Mailer Center, 2008–2021 The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, founded after Mailer’s death to nurture new writers, ceased its activities in 2021. Its story, from the Provincetown summers to Wilkes University.
  9. Remembering Chris Busa Christopher Busa—founding editor of Provincetown Arts, Mailer’s friend and neighbor, and a member of the Society’s Board from its founding—died on June 20, 2020. He was 73.
  10. 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.
  11. In Memoriam: Dr. Wilbur Hayes The Society mourns the passing of Dr. Wilbur Hayes, an original member and a friend of Norman Mailer.
  12. Works and Days Wins the 2019 Lucid Award J. Michael Lennon, Donna Pedro Lennon, and Gerald R. Lucas receive the 2019 Robert F. Lucid Award for Norman Mailer: Works and Days.
  13. The 2019 Conference Begins Tomorrow The Norman Mailer Society’s 2019 conference in Wilkes-Barre, PA, begins tomorrow, and the final program has been posted.
  14. 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.
  15. 2019 Membership Drive Dear Members of the Mailer Society, Happy New Year!
  16. Coming in Fall 2018: Revised Edition of Works and Days “The veritable Rosetta Stone of Mailer criticism.” —Barry H.
  17. About Steve Marcus Steve Marcus, the Lower East Side artist known as smarcus, made a series of prints from Mailer’s commentary on Martin Buber and spoke on Mailer and Judaism at the Society’s 2017 and 2018 conferences.
  18. A Message from David Light, Treasurer The Society’s treasurer since its founding looks back on fifteen years and asks old and new friends to join for the 2017 membership drive.
  19. Bios of Presenters, Actors, and Moderators for MailerConf16 Neil Abercrombie: “Norman Mailer made the opening statement of his post-World War II contemporaries on technology in his “war” book The Naked and The Dead .” Thus began my Ph.D.
  20. 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.
  21. Remembering Barry H. Leeds Barry Leeds—teacher, the first Mailer scholar, and a founder and vice president of the Norman Mailer Society—died on April 15, 2015. He was 74.
  22. Remembering Deborah Martinson Deborah Martinson—biographer of Lillian Hellman, Occidental College professor, a founding member and Board member of the Norman Mailer Society, and organizer of many of its conferences—died on April 26, 2014. She was 67.
  23. NM Center Countdown Just a reminder that May 1, 2013 is the deadline to apply for our summer fellowship and workshop program in Brooklyn Heights.
  24. Support for the Colony Great news for all those who have applied or are planning to apply for a summer 2012 writing workshop at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
  25. Apply for Summer 2012 at the Mailer Colony Provincetown, MA, beautiful coastal community of artists and thinkers, is ready to welcome you to the fourth season of summer workshops and fellowships at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
  26. 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.
  27. The 2010 Norman Mailer Center Honorees The Norman Mailer Center and The Norman Mailer Writers Colony is proud to announce this year’s Mailer Prize winners to be honored at the Center’s Annual Benefit Gala, which will be held on October…
  28. Writers Colony Gala This year at our Annual Benefit Gala, on October 19, 2010, the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony will honor the great Turkish writer and 2006 Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk by presenting him with…
  29. Norris Church Mailer’s Upcoming Memoir A DEEPLY PERSONAL, WARM, FUNNY, AND REVEALING MEMOIR FROM NORRIS CHURCH MAILER " A Ticket to the Circus is a remarkable memoir—blunt, funny, extraordinarily candid and self-aware; deeply moving, as…
  30. Fiction Contest British GQ magazine and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony announce a new annual competition for non-fiction writing.
  31. Colony Now Accepting Applications The Norman Mailer Writers Colony is pleased to announce its call for applications for the Second Annual Norman Mailer Writers Colony Fellowships at Provincetown, MA.
  32. Colony Gala a Success Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer’s memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala and benefit celebrating his writers’ colony.
  33. Writers Colony Gala The First Annual Norman Writers Colony Gala, the Prologue to the Seventh International Norman Mailer Society Conference (Oct.
  34. 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival On Sunday, September 13, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, the Brooklyn Literary Council and Brooklyn Tourism will host the fourth annual free Brooklyn Book Festival, presenting over 220…
  35. A Symposium on Mailer’s Film and Theater In September 2009 the actor and director Stephan Morrow, who had worked with Mailer on Strawhead, Tough Guys Don’t Dance, and The Deer Park, convened a panel on Mailer’s work in film and theater at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
  36. Ricks Knighted The Mailer Society is pleased to announce that Christopher Ricks, keynote speaker at the 2008 Society conference in Provincetown, has been knighted as part of the Queen’s Birthday Honours.
  37. 2009 Norman Mailer Fellows The Norman Mailer Writers Colony at Provincetown, Massachusetts, is proud to announce the Norman Mailer Fellows for its 2009 inaugural year.
  38. Salvatore Scibona Wins Writing Award The Norman Mailer Writers Colony and The Provincetown Arts Press announce the awarding of the first Norman Mailer Cape Cod Writing Award for Exceptional Writing to Mr.
  39. Richard Meier to Speak in Provincetown Provincetown Arts Groups Join Forces to bring Pritzker Prize Winning Architect, Richard Meier to Provincetown.
  40. Mailer Writing Awards Announced The new Mailer writing awards were announced on February 23 at a Washington, D.C.
  41. Larry Schiller Featured in the Times Hillary Rose of the Times Online chats with Larry Schiller about his photography and his remarkable life experiences: He was taught needlepoint by Joanne Woodward and taken to the races by Jack…
  42. José Torres Dies at 72 José Torres, former light heavyweight boxing champion and a close friend of the Mailer family, died of a heart attack on January 19 at his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
  43. Writers Colony Mentioned Wicked Local Provincetown has an article today about the spring opening of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.
  44. New Flickr Group As you know, the Society has it’s own Flickr account where we post photos of Norman Mailer and Society conferences.
  45. Two Announcements From President J. Michael Lennon: I am happy to announce that Professor Camille Paglia will be the keynote luncheon speaker at the Washington conference.
  46. 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.
  47. NM Writers Colony Today, the Cape Cod Times discusses the upcoming launch of the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Provincetown, MA.
  48. Norman and Me If you’re anywhere near Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, November 23, you might want to attend “Norman and Me,” a “swapping of stories” between Jeffrey Michelson and Stephen Mailer.
  49. Mailer Memorial Date Set Six weeks after Norman Mailer’s death on November 10, 2007, the Society announced the date of his Carnegie Hall memorial, and Norris Church Mailer named the Society to receive gifts in his memory. How the Society marked his death, from the family’s announcement to a day of tributes in Provincetown.
  50. Honor Mailer on November 5 An invitation to Society members to join us in honoring Norman Mailer in Cambridge.
  51. Awards Benefit The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is presenting the Fifth Distinguished Service in the Arts Awards Benefit at the Hotel Marlowe in Cambridge on Monday, November 5, 2007.
  52. Mailer’s Vertical City A Raffle to Benefit The Norman Mailer Society Background: In 1965, Norman Mailer and two friends, Eldred Mowery and Charlie Brown, spent three weeks assembling a seven-foot high structure out of…
  53. Call for Contributers on Mailer Abby H. P. Werlock is preparing a 2-volume Companion to the American Novel for Facts on File, sequel to the award-winning The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, and still has…
  54. To the Charter Members of the Norman Mailer Society November 27, 2003 Dear Charter Members, I write to forward the Minutes of our first meeting in Brooklyn on November 1st and to bring you up to date on recent developments and future meeting plans.