Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2022/Program

19th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference
“The Prisoner of Sex” Turns 50: Mailer on Gender and Sexuality
June 8–10, 2022, Long Branch, NJ, Monmouth University

Final as of 05/20/2022.

Wednesday June 8

All sessions will be held on 2nd floor of Pozycki Hall unless otherwise indicated.

10:00-11:00a

Business Meeting

11:15a-12:15p

Louis Menand and “The White Negro”

Panel Chair: Nicole DePolo

• Jason Mosser
• Maggie McKinley
• Mike Lennon

12:30-1:45p

Lunch on your own

2:00-3:00

“The Prisoner of Sex” and Town Bloody Hall

Panel Chair: Matthew Hinton

• David Mikics, “The Flesh of Mystery in Mailer’s ‘Prisoner of Sex’”
• Bonnie Culver, “Revisiting ‘The Prisoner of Sex’”
• Enid Stubin, “Town Bloody Hall: The Making of Norman Mailer”

3:15-4:15

Mailer and Marilyn Monroe

Panel Chair: Raymond Vince

• Carl Rollyson, “Norman Mailer and the Word: How He Changed the Trajectory of Marilyn Monroe Biography and Why It Matters to Biography”
• Christine Fouirnaies, “Myths, Thieves, and Artists: Norman Mailer’s Identification with Marilyn Monroe”

4:30-5:30

Writing Memoirs of Mailer

Panel Chair: Mashey Bernstein

• Susan Mailer
• Mike Lennon
• Barbara Wasserman

5:30-6:30

Welcome Reception
(Gardens outside Great Hall)

Thursday June 9, 2022

All sessions will be held on 2nd floor of Pozycki Hall unless otherwise indicated.

9:00-10:00a

Mailer and Politics

Panel Chair: Jerry Lucas

• Raymond Vince, “The Naked and the Dead and the Rhetoric of War”
• Walter Lewallen, “Norman Mailer’s Vietnam Complex”
• Gordon Rayfield, “Fun City and Mailer’s 1969 Mayoral Run”

10:15–11:15a

The Two Mailers

Panel Chair: Maggie McKinley

• Ronald K. Fried
• John Buffalo Mailer

11:30a-12:30p

“In the Red Light”

Panel Chair: Enid Stubin

• Jason Mosser, “‘In the Red Light’ and the Elements of Mailer’s Campaign Journalism”
• Sal Fallica, “Mailer Confronts Candidate Goldwater, the Demagogue of Sincerity”

12:30-1:45p

Lunch on your own
(NMS Board Lunch Meeting in Pozycki Conference Room)

2:00-3:00p

Mailer’s Jewishness

Panel Chair: Mark Olshaker

• David Denby
• Mashey Bernstein
• Ezra Cappell

3:15-4:15p

Mailer and the Fragility of Democracy

Panel Chair: Jason Mosser

• Mike Lennon
• John Buffalo Mailer
• Saladin Malik Amber
• Mark Olshaker

4:30-5:30p

Screening of Flaubrucht, A Celebration of Life
(Pozycki Hall Lecture Hall 115, 1st Fl)

Introduced by writer/director Stephen Mailer

Friday June 10, 2022

All sessions will be held on 2nd floor of Pozycki Hall unless otherwise indicated.

9:00-10:00a

Mailer’s Short Fiction and Poetry

Panel Chair: Marc Triplett

• Phil Sipiora, “Coming of Age in Mailer’s Early Short Fiction”
• Jerry Lucas, “Transitional Short Fiction”
• Matt Hinton, “Deaths for the Ladies at 50”

10:15-11:15a

Teaching Mailer

Panel Chair: Maggie McKinley

• Nicole DePolo
• Matt Hinton
• Jerry Lucas

11:30a-12:30p

Wilkes Readers’ Theatre
(1st Floor Main Lecture Hall)

1:00-3:00p

Luncheon and Keynote Address delivered by David Denby
(Anacon Hall A)

This year’s keynote address is funded by a generous donation from Mashey Bernstein.