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* '''2017-08-16''': Boris Kachka considers “[http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/what-michiko-kakutanis-departure-means-for-books-coverage.html What the Departure of the ''Times''’ Michiko Kakutani Means for Books Coverage]” in ''New York''. At the ''Times'', remembers James Atlas, “she reached a point where she could be eviscerating” of any writer, no matter how powerful, “Mailer being a prime example. People were afraid. I was afraid.”

* '''2017-08-14''': The ''Daily News'' revisits “[https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/mailer-breslin-ran-stunt-filled-nyc-political-campaign-article-1.2977523 When Mailer and Breslin ran a stunt-filled NYC political campaign].” They had to be kidding. They weren’t really serious. Were they? Norman Mailer running for mayor of New York?

* '''2017-06-28''': Colum McCann to Speak at [[Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2017 Sarasota, FL|Conference 2017]]. We are pleased to announce the keynote speaker at the 2017 Mailer Society conference will be '''Colum McCann'''. An admirer of Mailer’s work, he met Mailer in 2006 in Provincetown, and in 2009 wrote a brilliant introduction to ''Moonfire'', the Taschen edition of ''Of a Fire on the Moon''.  He is the author of six novels and three collections of stories.

* '''2017-04-04''': “[https://www.salon.com/2017/04/02/donald-trump-a-bigger-factoid-president-than-nixon/ Donald Trump: A bigger “factoid” president than Nixon?]” David Masiotra writes, “Norman Mailer coined the word ‘factoid’ in 1973 to describe ideas or information perceived by the public as facts but actually dubious or instruments of obfuscation. Writing in his brilliant and almost psychedelic biography of Marilyn Monroe, Mailer described an earlier book on the Hollywood starlet as a ‘book with facts embellished by factoids, that is, facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.’”