The Norman Mailer Society

Norris Church Mailer’s Upcoming Memoir

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:21:45 +0000

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 it is wonderfully entertaining; above all, a memorable double portrait of two very unusual people, a couple for whom the term meant for each other is wholly [...]

Fiction Contest

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:09:17 +0000

British GQ magazine and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony announce a new annual competition for non-fiction writing. We are calling for submissions of published and unpublished work completed in the twelve months from May 1 2009. Entries can be on any topic but must be no less than 2,000 and no more than 4,000 words long [...]

Mornings with Mailer

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:20:59 +0000

A RECOLLECTION OF FRIENDSHIP by DWAYNE RAYMOND Published to Coincide with What Would Have Been Norman Mailer’s 87th Birthday — An Intimate Portrait of the Great Writer’s Final Years In Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship (Harper Perennial; Trade Paperback Original; On Sale: January 26, 2010; $13.99), writer Dwayne Raymond reflects upon the intimate bond he [...]

Colony Now Accepting Applications

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:14:17 +0000

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. The Mailer Fellows have been created to honor Norman Mailer’s contributions to American culture and letters and to nurture future generations of writers. In 2009 seven Fellows spent four weeks in [...]

Dahlby Essay

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:33:43 +0000

Editor’s note: Tracy Dahlby’s essay (The Mailer Review, Fall 2009) included errors that were introduced in the typesetting process. The following is the correct version of the essay.

John Buffalo Mailer Runs With the Bulls For Wall Street 2

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:04:27 +0000

John Buffalo Mailer, the pouty-lipped 31-year-old son of Norman and Norris Church Mailer, has mainly been a theater actor and playwright. (Hello Herman, which he wrote in college, recently underwent a revival in Los Angeles, with Sawyer Spielberg, son of Steven, playing the lead.) But recently, Mr. Mailer finished filming for Wall Street 2, the [...]

Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:27:46 +0000

James Brookfield begins by reconsidering the literary merits of Barbary Shore, Norman Mailer’s second novel, is his article “Considering Norman Mailer and His Work: a Letter.” Brookfield positions his article as a response and commentary on Andras Gyorgy’s recent “The Postwar Novelist in Regression: Norman Mailer (1927-2007)” — mostly a commentary on the “socialist” Mailer. [...]

Review Excerpt 1

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:34:11 +0000

The following is an excerpt of J. Michael Lennon’s conversation with Lawrence Schiller in The Mailer Review, Volume 3. This is the first of several features we will be posting from the latest volume of the Review. Check back often for the newest installment. Lennon Schiller

Conference 2009 Photos

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:19:17 +0000

I have posted a gallery of my photos from last weekend’s 2009 conference in Washington D.C. A slideshow follows.

Colony Gala a Success

admin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:09:56 +0000

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. Read more on The Daily Beast and The New York Times.