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* '''2020-04-01''': Join us for this year’s conference in Long Branch, NJ, October 15–17. More information is on our [[Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2020 Long Branch, NJ|conference page]].
* '''2021-06-24''': In “[https://hamodia.com/columns/words-old-new-nu/ Words: Old, New, and Nu],Mordechai Schiller discusses neologisms, like Mailer’s famous “factoid.”
* '''2020-03-19''': The ''New York Times'' recommends ''The Executioner’s Song'' in “[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/arts/true-crime-favorites.html True Crime Favorites From New York Times Critics and Staff].Dwight Garner writes: “With ‘The Executioner’s Song,’ Norman Mailer seemed to cram all of America into this sprawling book about the life and death of the murderer Gary Gilmore. He became internationally famous after he demanded that the state of Utah, where he killed two people, put him to death. The book, which won a Pulitzer Prize, is awesome in its sweep, power and (for Mailer) plain-spoken humanity.”
* '''2021-06-18''': David Reid and Jeremy Larner revisit the career of Peter Manso: [https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/06/17/remembering-peter-manso-biographer-of-norman-mailer-and-marlon-brando Remembering Peter Manso, biographer of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando].
* '''2020-03-18''': Did Rip Torn hit Norman Mailer with a hammer while filming ''Maidstone''? To find out, see “[https://radaronline.com/photos/the-most-intense-celebrity-fights-on-set/ The Most Intense Celebrity Fights On Set]” and scroll all the way down.
* '''2021-06-15''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/14/books/richard-baron-dead.html Richard Baron, Who Published Baldwin and Mailer, Dies at 98].
* '''2020-03-17''': The Saint Louis Post Dispatch recommends ''The Executioner’s Song'' in “[https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/plus-big-books-to-read-for-restless-days-at-home/collection_3e4096af-3690-50d4-bfbd-bba8941a4826.html#1 10 (plus) big books to read for restless days at home].
* '''2021-06-09''': Literary Hub has published an excerpt from Joan Didion’s 1979 [https://bookmarks.reviews/joan-didion-on-norman-mailers-the-executioners-song/ review of ''The Executioner’s Song''].
* '''2020-03-15''': The Norman Mailer Society hopes everyone stays safe during the current epidemic. While you’re social distancing, catch up on your reading.
* '''2021-05-05''': Tomiwa Owolade [https://unherd.com/2021/05/norman-mailer-prisoner-of-sex/ revisits ''The Prisoner of Sex''].
* '''2020-02-05''': [https://deadline.com/2020/02/john-buffalo-mailer-hivemind-norman-mailer-the-naked-and-the-dead-washington-place-productions-mailer-tuchman-media-1202851027/ John Buffalo Mailer And Hivemind To Adapt Norman Mailer’s WWII Novel ''The Naked And The Dead'' Into Limited Series].
* '''2021-04-08''': [https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/04/07/cape-author-peter-manso-80-died-wednesday-his-truro-home/7132607002/ Cape author Peter Manso, 80, dies Wednesday in his Truro home].
* '''2020-01-31''': [[Norman Mailer]] would have been 97 years old today.
* '''2021-04-07''': In “[https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/a-badge-of-honor-/ 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.”
* '''2020-01-18''': January 17: On This Day in World History . . . [https://southcoastherald.co.za/390688/january-17-day-world-history-briefly-2/ 1977: Murderer Gilmore gets his death wish]
* '''2021-03-27''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/books/morris-dickstein-dead.html Morris Dickstein, Critic and Cultural Historian, Dies at 81].
* '''2020-01-11''': Was the Safdie Brother’s latest Adam Sandler film influenced by Norman Mailer? Armond White in the ''National Review'' thinks so: [https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/movie-review-uncut-gems-adam-sandler-bad-boy-hipster-fantasy/ ''Uncut Gems'': An Adam Sandler Movie for People Who Hate Adam Sandler Movies].
* '''2021-03-15''': Ralph Keyes of ''Literary Hub'' discusses '''fug''' in “[https://lithub.com/when-in-need-of-the-right-word-great-writers-simply-make-them-up/ When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up]” and gets it right.
* '''2020-01-05''': From ''The Guardian'': “[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jan/05/from-the-archive-norman-mailer-meets-clint-eastwood-in-1984 Norman Mailer meets Clint Eastwood in 1984]. The novelist writes admiringly of the actor – even suggesting he’d make a good politician.


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