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-* '''2014-07-21: Mailer Biographer Mike Lennon to Speak in Provincetown. 356 Commercial St. | Provincetown Public Library | Provincetown | $15 Aug 15th, 2014 at 5PM. Author J. Michael Lennon will visit the Provincetown Public Library on Friday, August 15 to present his ''New York Times'' Editor’s Choice book, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life''.
+* '''2014-12-16''': “[https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/12/monica-lewinsky-on-norman-mailer Happy F**kin’ Birthday (with Apologies to Norman Mailer)]” wherein Monica Lewinsky reflects on her relationship with writer Norman Mailer: “I had come to understand that the enduring power of Norman Mailer went far beyond his writings. It encompassed everything about him. It seemed so fitting that he was a pugilist: he was always fighting in every aspect of his life and with every fiber of his being. He fought—no, he raged—against pretense, against small minds and small thinking, against the status quo.”
+* '''2014-12-12''': “[https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/norman-mailer-new-journalism-kennedy/ Taschen Revisits A Classic of New Journalism]”: This week, Taschen has reissued Mailer’s iconic essay “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” — one of the early masterpieces of so-called “New Journalism” — in a beautifully illustrated new edition ($150).
+* '''2014-12-10''': “[https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/great-american-novel-buried-norman-mailers-letters The Great American Novel Buried in Norman Mailer’s Letters]”: Mailer may well be best remembered as an author of essays, but the novel was his touchstone. The letters show how he got sidetracked.
+* '''2014-11-15''': “[https://bookstr.com/article/an-interview-with-author-richard-stratton/ An Interview with Author Richard Stratton]”: The world-renowned novelist Norman Mailer was at the top of the government’s list of targets they wanted me to help them convict and send to prison.  Mailer was a dear friend and mentor.  He was not involved in my pot trafficking enterprise.  But we were very close, we owned property together, he had what the government has termed “guilty knowledge” of how I made my living.  Had I wanted to make a deal and implicate Mailer, I could have walked free or done very little time in prison. I chose not to cooperate against Mailer or anyone else.  As a result, I was given a lengthy prison sentence: 25 years and six months with no possibility of parole.
+* '''2014-11-14''': “[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/movies/d-a-pennebaker-and-chris-hegeduss-counterculture-archive.html Wanted: Home for a Prized Trove]”: D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’s Counterculture Archive
+* '''2014-11-13''': ''[https://amzn.to/35383S2 Smuggler’s Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia]'': An award winning writer and filmmaker, former Editor-in-Chief at ''High Times'', former drug kingpin, outlaw and ex-con, Richard Stratton continues to lead a very colorful life. Norman Mailer is a key figure in the memoir.
+* '''2014-11-12''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/theater/jerry-tallmer-theater-critic-and-creator-of-obies-dies-at-95.html Jerry Tallmer, Critic Who Created the Obies, Dies at 93]: Jerry Tallmer, who brought professionalism and a personalized approach to arts coverage to The Village Voice in its earliest days, and who dreamed up its award for Off Broadway theater, the Obie, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 93. Mailer is mentioned several times in his obituary.
+* '''2014-11-09''': Anthony Bourdain writes “[https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/8-ways-to-love-provincetown/index.html Provincetown -- 8 ways for visitors to love this Cape Cod oasis]”: “Some of the world’s best writers, playwrights and poets have come to the Outer Cape. Writers Norman Mailer and Jack Kerouac, poet e.e. cummings and playwright Eugene O’Neill were drawn to the beach shacks near Provincetown to write. You can write there, too: The National Park Service, which oversees the shacks now, and local non-profits help pick artists and writers for residencies at the shacks.”
+* '''2014-10-20''': [https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/norman-mailer-explains-the-hipster Fighting Words: Norman Mailer explains the hipster] in this archival video — Author Norman Mailer explains the philosophy of the hipster in 1960.
+* '''2014-10-19''': [http://www.bkmag.com/2014/10/15/the-literary-united-states-a-map-of-the-best-book-for-every-state/ The Literary United States]: A Map of the Best Book for Every State. All are literary in voice and spirit; all will let you understand a place in a profound way. And none of them are ''Gone with the Wind''. Check out Utah: it’s Mailer’s ''The Executioner’s Song'', of course.
+* '''2014-08-27''': Today, the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony announced that Don DeLillo, Billy Collins, and Katrina vanden Heuvel, will be the 2014 recipients of the prestigious Norman Mailer Prize. The awards will be presented at the sixth annual benefit gala on Monday, October 27, 2014, at the historical New York Public Library in New York City. The Norman Mailer Prize has been awarded to some of the world’s most esteemed writers, including, Joyce Carol Oates, Dr. Eli Wiesel, and Dr. Maya Angelou, among others. The evening’s Master of Ceremonies and additional honorees will be announced in the early fall.
+* '''2014-08-11''': Story Behind the Book: Mike Lennon and ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life'' – ''The Boston Globe'' — J. Michael Lennon will read from his biography at 5 p.m. Friday at the Provincetown Public Library, 356 Commercial St.
+* '''2014-07-23''': [https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2014/julyaugust/feature/how-did-cool-become-such-big-deal-0 How Did Cool Become Such a Big Deal?] — The personification of cool, however, continued to be the hipster. Norman Mailer, a close reader of Anatole Broyard, was clearly influenced by Broyard’s essays on the subject, but made the connection to black culture even more explicit in “The White Negro.” ¶ Mailer’s essay is a manifesto of sorts, against conformity, against large organizations, modern society, squares, and anyone else helping to uphold the big lie of American life. He spoke for those who, having lived through World War II, now understood that all could die at any second. Humanity had proven itself a great collective murderer, and the modern state was its greatest weapon. White people, Mailer tried to show, were thus forced into the condition of black people who had lived “on the margin between totalitarianism and democracy for two centuries.”
+* '''2014-07-21''': Mailer Biographer Mike Lennon to Speak in Provincetown. 356 Commercial St. | Provincetown Public Library | Provincetown | $15 Aug 15th, 2014 at 5PM. Author J. Michael Lennon will visit the Provincetown Public Library on Friday, August 15 to present his ''New York Times'' Editor’s Choice book, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life''.
 * '''2014-07-20''': Pre-order the ''The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer'' at [https://amzn.to/2SvB5HF Amazon]. Keep up with Mike’s announcements and public appearances [http://jmichaellennon.com/ on his web site].
 * '''2014-07-15''': [https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=58166113&itype=cmsid The Utah-filmed truth behind the gritty story of murderer Gary Gilmore]: Revisiting the true-crime TV movie “The Executioner’s Song,” a gritty period piece about the angry love story of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore, opens up a time capsule to the seedy small-town Utah life that served as a backdrop to two 1976 murders. Gilmore’s death by firing squad at the Utah State Prison on Jan. 17, 1977, captured international headlines as the first execution in a decade after the death penalty …
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 * '''2014-02-15''': Via Eric Bryant on ''ArtSpace'': “[https://www.artspace.com/magazine/art_101/close_look/decoding_matthew_barney-52052 Decoding "River of Fundament": 8 Keys to Unlocking Matthew Barney’s Egyptian Epic].” The multiple narratives about jealous gods, reincarnated pharaohs, and Norman Mailer are confounding, but limpid storytelling is not the point. So what is Barney’s point?
 * '''2014-02-07''': Via Art Matters: “[https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/art-matters-sexy-beast/ Sexy Beast]”—Summoning Norman Mailer, Egyptian mythology, an oboe-playing porn star and one dead cow, Matthew Barney creates “River of Fundament,” a baroque and no less baffling art-world spectacle.
-* '''2014-12-31''': Today, Mailer would have turned 91. His last novel, ''[[The Castle in the Forest]]'', was as complicated as its author. Few things say “dangerous writing territory” like a story about Hitler’s childhood. And yet Castle received the best critical reviews of Mailer’s career since Executioner. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, concluding that, “Mailer arrives at a somber, compelling portrait of a monstrous soul,” while Booklist commented that “In his first novel in more than a decade, Mailer continues to provoke. Only a writer with his temerity would attempt a novel interpreting perhaps the most notorious figure in modern history, Adolf Hitler.” ([https://booktrib.com/2014/01/heres-to-you-mr-mailer/ Via BookTrib].)
+* '''2014-01-31''': Today, Mailer would have turned 91. His last novel, ''[[The Castle in the Forest]]'', was as complicated as its author. Few things say “dangerous writing territory” like a story about Hitler’s childhood. And yet Castle received the best critical reviews of Mailer’s career since Executioner. Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, concluding that, “Mailer arrives at a somber, compelling portrait of a monstrous soul,” while Booklist commented that “In his first novel in more than a decade, Mailer continues to provoke. Only a writer with his temerity would attempt a novel interpreting perhaps the most notorious figure in modern history, Adolf Hitler.” ([https://booktrib.com/2014/01/heres-to-you-mr-mailer/ Via BookTrib].)
+* '''2014-01-17''': Via ''[https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/bam-to-premiere-matthew-barneys-new-film-emriver-of-fundamentem#photo-1 Gothamist]'': BAM To Premiere Matthew Barney's New Film, ''River Of Fundament''.
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