Norman Mailer Society/News/2021
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- 2021-08-23: The Norman Mailer Center is ceasing activities. Norman Mailer’s library and the contents of his writer’s study formerly in the center’s possession have been transferred to the E.S. Farley Library at Wilkes University. For further information, contact Suzanna Calev, University Archivist. suzanna.calev
wilkes.edu. Wilkes is also the sponsor of the Norris Church Mailer Writing Scholarship. Established by Norman Mailer and friends in 2005, it is awarded annually to a student in the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes. Before their deaths, Norman Mailer and his wife Norris served on the Maslow Program’s Advisory Board. For further information, contact the Program Director, Dr. David Hicks david.hickswilkes.edu.
- 2021-07-27: Barbara Wasserman’s new memoir, Love of My Life, has been published. Get your copy at Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
- 2021-06-24: In “Words: Old, New, and Nu,” Mordechai Schiller discusses neologisms, like Mailer’s famous “factoid.”
- 2021-06-18: David Reid and Jeremy Larner revisit the career of Peter Manso: Remembering Peter Manso, biographer of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando.
- 2021-06-15: Richard Baron, Who Published Baldwin and Mailer, Dies at 98.
- 2021-06-09: Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Joan Didion’s 1979 review of The Executioner’s Song.
- 2021-05-05: Tomiwa Owolade revisits The Prisoner of Sex.
- 2021-04-08: Cape author Peter Manso, 80, dies Wednesday in his Truro home.
- 2021-04-07: In “A Badge of Honor,” Taki Theodoracopulos writes about Mailer and cancel culture: “Mind you, to be canceled is to be recognized as very good, so my friend Norman Mailer has to be first in line. In Mailer’s novel An American Dream, the protagonist Stephen Rojack murders his wife and then shags the maid. The “woke” girls are up in arms, as well they should be.”
- 2021-03-27: Morris Dickstein, Critic and Cultural Historian, Dies at 81.
- 2021-03-15: Ralph Keyes of Literary Hub discusses fug in “When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up” and gets it right.
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