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The Digital Humanities initiative of the Norman Mailer Society

This website serves as a hub for the digital endeavors of the Norman Mailer Society. It features an overview of projects — both analog and digital — undertaken by the Society’s members that help to support and maintain the legacy of Norman Mailer.

Project Mailer, created and maintained by Gerald R. Lucas houses 3,262 articles and 121 editors.

Order Norman Mailer’s Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal, 1954–1955.
Now available through Arcade Publishing (June 2024). Co-edited by J. Michael Lennon, Gerald R. Lucas, and Susan Mailer.

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Archive

Wilkes University Norman Mailer Collection: A significant digital archive of Mailer’s personal materials, mostly from the 1980s onward. See also J. Michael Lennon’s collection of Norman Mailer’s Publication Research, 1948-2024.

Project

Lipton’s Journal: Mailer’s journal of self-analysis and personal growth he kept from December 1954 to March of 1955, edited by J. Michael Lennon, Susan Mailer, and Gerald R. Lucas.

Project

Norman Mailer: Works and Days by J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon and edited by Gerald R. Lucas contains almost 1400 cross-referenced entries, images, and many full-text articles.

Journal

The Mailer Review, the official journal of the Norman Mailer Society, publishes articles, notes, creative works, interviews, commentary, images, and book reviews relevant to the life and work of Norman Mailer.

Digital Book

The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer by Barry H. Leeds was published in 1969 and explores Norman Mailer’s major writing through the sixties. We present the full text of Leeds’ study in a new digital form.

Project

An American Dream Expanded features letters, full-text criticism, essays, a gallery, and more that contextualizes and expands study of AAD.

Collection

This collection, assembled by J. Michael Lennon, features full-text introductions, prefaces, and forewords by Norman Mailer, including those to the works of Jean Malaquais, Abbie Hoffman, Jack Henry Abbott, and others.

Podcast

Hosted by Justin Bozung and published twice monthly, The Norman Mailer Society Podcast highlights the people and projects that promote the legacy of Norman Mailer.

WWW

Visit the official web site of the Norman Mailer Society to join the Society, read news, and get all the current information about our annual conference.

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Contributors

Maintained by scholars and students alike, Project Mailer offers a living space for open-access research, experimentation, and conversation. We welcome contributions from all those interested in Mailer, 20th-century American literature, and the digital humanities.

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Get in Touch

Want to contribute, ask a question, or suggest a new project? We’re always open to collaboration and feedback. Join the conversation and help us grow Project Mailer.

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About Project Mailer

Project Mailer is a digital humanities initiative devoted to the life, works, and legacy of Norman Mailer. Sponsored by the The Norman Mailer Society, this collaborative archive curates scholarly essays, bibliographies, rare documents, digital editions, and media related to Mailer’s career.

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News

• 2025-09-19: Project Mailer has a new server, so loading times should be greatly shortened. If you encounter issues, please reach out to editorprojectmailer.net.
• 2025-04-01: Graduate students of Gerald R. Lucas are remediating volumes 4 and 5 of The Mailer Review.
• 2022-12-16: Wikimedia 1.39.0 update.
• 2022-12-01: The Society now has its own dedicated web site: normanmailersociety.org. Check it out and consider subscribing for exclusive content.
• 2021-05-25: Lipton’s Journal has been posted in its entirety. Check out our newest Digital Humanities project: fully searchable, browsable, and annotated.
• 2021-02-15: New entry posted: 79.35a.
• 2021-01-18: New entries posted: 92.11a, 92.11b, and 92.11c.
• 2020-10-20: The entirety of The Mailer Review volume two has been posted.
• 2020-08-20: The table of contents has been posted for The Mailer Review, Volume 13, 2019.
• 2020-08-23: New entries: 71.30a and 04.17.
• 2020-06-02: New entries: 00.12a, 03.16a, 04.3a, 04.4a, 04.4b, 04.7a, 05.1b, 05.1c, 05.11a, 06.8a, and 07.34a.
• 2020-05-31: New entries: 91.47b, 92.2a, 95.30a, 96.5a, 97.23d, 98.14b, 98.15a, and 99.2b.
• 2020-05-30: New entries posted: 72.3a, 72.3b, 78.2a, 78.3a, 79.3a, 79.4a, 79.33a, 80.4a, 83.6a, 83.10a, 84.3a, 84.27b, 87.10a, 88.9a, 89.0, and 89.1a.
• 2020-05-25: New entries posted: 58.4a, 61.21b, 61.21c, 63.27a, 67.9a, 68.3c, 71.30b, 00.4a, and 00.7a.
• 11/09/19: Reposted Mike Lennon’s essay “Why Mailer Matters.”
• 11/07/19: Help us with our work on Wikipedia. Now posted: WikiProject Mailer.
• 09/01/19: Posted the prologue, “The Riptides of Fame: June 1948,” from Mike Lennon’s Norman Mailer: A Double Life.”
• 08/01/19: The table of contents for The Mailer Review volume 11 has been posted. Volume 11 should be shipping in a matter of days.
• 07/28/19: Added the Norman Mailer Society Podcast page and created archive. New episodes coming soon.
• 05/29/19: Posted Andrew M. Gordon’s “Mailer’s Use of Wilhelm Reich” from MR, volume 10. Also began the rudimentary designs of Lipton’s Journal.
• 05/27/19: Posted Victor Peppard’s article: “The Curious Story of Norman Mailer’s Engagement with Short Fiction”; and Enid Stubin’s “‘Don’t Go Away Feeling Unequal’: ‘The Time of Her Time’ and Mailer’s Conciliatory Impulse.” Both from MR, volume 10.
• 05/26/19: Posted Kate Mailer’s keynote from 2015: “People Who Look Alike Are Alike.”
• 05/25/19: Posted “Family Colloquium”; “An American Tragedy and The Executioner’s Song: Receptions and Controversies”; and “Teaching Controversy: Mailer in the College Classroom” all from MR, vol. 8.
• 05/24/19: New {{byline}} template.
• 05/23/19: New addition to The Mailer Review: Mailer’s “The Hazards and Sources of Writing” from volume 3.
• 05/22/19: The Mailer Review has finally been moved to PM, to its new home, and additional posts are being added all the time, like Gerald R. Lucas’ “Norman Mailer and the Novel 2.0” from volume 5.
• 05/04/19: The final part of the Works and Days Cultural Backgrounds bibliography has been posted.
• 04/29/19: Moving the web site for the Norman Mailer Society. Let us know what you think.
• 04/27/19: Middle Georgia State University recognizes the efforts of graduate student editors in their work on AAD Expanded. See “MGA Graduate Students Publish Digital Humanities Project About Norman Mailer.”
• 04/26/19: Major steps have been taken toward the completion of AAD Expanded. The complete text of J. Michael Lennon’s Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969 has been posted as well as some articles, gallery, and full-text essays. See the project credits for more.
• 04/20/19: Carnegie Hall Memorial tributes are now posted.
• 04/14/19: Added four new full-text introductions from Mailer, see 70.7, 81.10, 04.4, and 08.2.
• 04/11/19: Development of An American Dream Expanded continues.
• 03/20/19: Added Index of Names to Works.
• 03/16/19: All entries of Works have been posted. Beginning on the Index of Names.
• 03/12/19: Works has been posted through the 1990s, including some full-text additions, like Christopher Busa’s 1999 interview.
• 03/09/19: Works has been posted through the 1980s, including some full-text additions.
• 03/08/19: Frank D. McConnell’s chapter “Norman Mailer and the Cutting Edge of Style” from his 1977 study Four Postwar American Novelists: Bellow, Mailer, Barth, and Pynchon has been posted.

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