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September 29, 30 and October 1, 2016</big> | September 29, 30 and October 1, 2016</big> | ||
The 2016 Norman Mailer Society Conference is scheduled for September 28, 29, 30, and October 1 on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey. | |||
The Society has arranged for 40 rooms to be blocked for conference attendees. The conference hotel (the closet to the university) is the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, 294 Highway 36 East, West Long Branch, NJ 07764. Be Sure to Book Early! You may reserve a Standard Room by calling (732) 542-1234. Use the group booking code NMS when you reserve your room. The cost per night is $79 plus applicable taxes. A free Express Start Breakfast Bar is included. Reservation Cut-Off date is August 28, 2016. NMS Block Rooms remaining after this date will be released for general use. | |||
* 2016 Individual Registration Fee: $125 | |||
* 2016 Student Registration Fee: $ 50 | |||
* 2016 Guest Fee $ 30 | |||
Use the following convenient form to pay one of the amounts above, or go to our PayPal page to pay another amount. Specify what you’re paying for in the “Special Instructions” box. | |||
All Panel and Roundtable Presenters and Moderators must be members of the Norman Mailer Society. Each Presenter and Moderator must pay the respective registration fee listed above. Each Presenter and Moderator may bring a “guest” who must pay a Guest Fee of $30. The “guest” does not have to be a member. | |||
If someone who is not a presenter or moderator and attends the conference, that person must be a member, must pay the respective registration fee, and can have a “guest” who must pay a Guest Fee of $30. The “guest” does not have to be a member. If someone attends the conference alone and does not bring a “guest,” that person must be a member and must pay the respective conference fee. GUEST is defined as a spouse, brother/sister, mother/father, friend, companion, anyone… | |||
{{notice|Only 2016 Norman Mailer Society Members (and LIFE members) will receive a copy of the 2016 issue of ''The Mailer Review'' (a $25 value).}} | |||
==Press Release== | |||
WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – (Sept. 16, 2016) – The Norman Mailer Society, in partnership with Monmouth University’s Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, will hold its 14th annual conference on campus from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. Barbara Mailer Wasserman, Long Branch native and sister of the late Norman Mailer, will provide the keynote address, “Mailer Roots in Long Branch.” Also included in the conference will be a reading by Monmouth Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Alex Gilvarry from his upcoming novel, Eastman Was Here and a performance of the one-woman play, A Ticket to the Circus, by Bonnie Culver, based on the memoir of Mailer’s wife, Norris Church Mailer, performed by K.C. Leiber. | WEST LONG BRANCH, N.J. – (Sept. 16, 2016) – The Norman Mailer Society, in partnership with Monmouth University’s Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences, will hold its 14th annual conference on campus from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1. Barbara Mailer Wasserman, Long Branch native and sister of the late Norman Mailer, will provide the keynote address, “Mailer Roots in Long Branch.” Also included in the conference will be a reading by Monmouth Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Alex Gilvarry from his upcoming novel, Eastman Was Here and a performance of the one-woman play, A Ticket to the Circus, by Bonnie Culver, based on the memoir of Mailer’s wife, Norris Church Mailer, performed by K.C. Leiber. | ||