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* [[File:Mailer-country.jpg|thumb]]'''2022-11-12''': Now available for preorder: [https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Mysterious-Country/Norman-Mailer/9781956763379 Norman Mailer’s ''Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy''] edited by [[J. Michael Lennon]] and [[John Buffalo Mailer]]. | |||
* '''2022-10-31''': Society member and scholar [[Robert J. Begiebing]] has written “[https://shepherd.com/best-books/to-start-reading-norman-mailer The best books to start reading Norman Mailer]” on Shepherd. Thanks for the recommendations. ''[https://amzn.to/3yZ049F Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations]'' is available for preorder now. | |||
* [[File:Loa-naked.jpeg|thumb]]'''2022-08-28''': Now available for preorder from the Library of America: ''[https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/712867/norman-mailer-the-naked-and-the-dead-and-selected-letters-1945-1946-loa-364-by-norman-mailer--j-michael-lennon-editor/ Norman Mailer: The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945-1946'' (LOA #364)], edited by [[J. Michael Lennon]]. From the LOA site: “To celebrate and commemorate the centennial of Mailer’s birth and the 75th anniversary of the publication of his unforgettable debut novel, this expanded collector’s edition includes a selection of 23 letters (all but four from Mailer to his first wife, Beatrice) chosen by Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon that reveals the keen insight and powerful ambition of a brilliant young writer grappling with the challenge of converting the weight of experience into art.” | |||
* '''2022-08-25''': Middle Georgia State University has [https://inside.mga.edu/2022/08/english-professor-published-in-times-literary-supplement.php posted a blurb] about the recent ''Lipton’s Journal'' excerpt published by ''TLS''. Also, the [http://jmichaellennon.com/publications/saint-and-psychopath/ entire article] is now available on Mike Lennon’s web site. | |||
* '''2022-08-18''': The ''Time Literary Supplement'' has published an excerpt from the forthcoming ''[[Lipton’s Journal]]'': “[https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/norman-mailer-unpublished-marijuana-journal/ Saint and Psychopath].” Co-edited by [[J. Michael Lennon]], [[Gerald R. Lucas]], and [[Susan Mailer]], this small sample of Mailer’s 1954–55 journal gives a taste of his marijuana-inspired musings before he published ''The Deer Park''. This excerpt is also [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/in-this-weeks-tls-355/ featured in the editor’s column] for the ''TLS''’ double summer issue. (Subscription Required.) | |||
* '''2022-07-22''': [[File:Begiebing-mailer-100.jpg|thumb]] Preorder now: [[Robert J. Begiebing]]’s ''Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations'' is a new book published by Louisiana State University Press. Through six critical essays, two creative dialogues featuring Mailer with Walt Whitman and with Ernest Hemingway, and his own interview with Mailer, Begiebing reveals how Mailer’s work contributed to shaping the 20th century literary landscape and underscores how Mailer’s work can help us confront the challenges of today. Preorder: [https://amzn.to/3yZ049F Amazon] | [https://lsupress.org/books/detail/norman-mailer-at-100/ LSU Press] | |||
* '''2022-07-15''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/nyregion/eagles-charges-hotel-california-lyrics.html Rare-Book Dealer Charged After Pilfered Eagles Lyrics Come to Light]. Glenn Horowitz and two other men are accused of conspiring to sell Don Henley’s notes, including the words to “Hotel California.” He placed the papers of Norman Mailer, Gabriel García Márquez, Tom Wolfe, Alice Walker and others in leading university libraries, and brokered major deals with musicians: In 2016, he sold Bob Dylan’s vast archive to two institutions in Oklahoma for a sum estimated to be as high as $20 million. | |||
* '''2022-07-13''': Casey Sherman tells the story of “When Kurt Vonnegut Met Norman Mailer in Cape Cod’s Legendary ‘Helltown{{' "}} in [https://crimereads.com/kurt-vonnegut-norman-mailer-cape-cod-provincetown/ CrimeReads]. | |||
* '''2022-07-09''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/books/review/shores-of-bohemia-john-taylor-williams.html The Outer Limits]. In ''The Shores of Bohemia'', John Taylor Williams explores 50 years in the iconoclastic summer colonies of Cape Cod. Book review by Andrew Sullivan. | |||
* '''2022-07-06''': Colm Tóibín on Norman Mailer: In my mid-20s, I read a lot of Norman Mailer’s books: ''Armies of the Night'', which is a description of the anti-Vietnam protests and another book ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'', which is about the 1968 Republican and Democratic Conventions. He put himself at the centre of the picture. He was unembarrassed about this. He was a bulky, boastful figure. He was always trying to be great in some way. I admired the sense of energy in the writing, the sense of newness. The presence of the writer, how that was managed, the way he dealt with political things in a quirky and interesting way. (Via ''[https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40908545.html Irish Examiner]''.) | |||
* '''2022-06-09''': We now have a list of [[Norman Mailer Society/Mailer Centenary Projects List|current and upcoming Mailer projects]], thanks to [[J. Michael Lennon]]. | |||
* '''2022-06-08''': [[Maggie McKinley]] winds the [[Robert F. Lucid Award]] for ''Norman Mailer in Context'' in 2021. Congratulations, Professor McKinley. | |||
* '''2022-04-09''': ''Publishers Weekly'' posts from its archive: [https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/88974-from-the-archive-april-16-1973.html April 16, 1973]: Mailer’s biography of Marilyn Monroe. | |||
* '''2022-04-05''': ''The Fight'' takes the number one position on “[https://www.bosshunting.com.au/sport/best-sports-biographies/ The 8 Best Sports Biographies Every Fan Needs To Read]” list. | |||
* '''2022-04-04''': [https://deadline.com/2022/04/james-gray-to-write-direct-drama-series-norman-mailer-1234992217/ ''Deadline'' reports] that James Gray will write and direct a series about Norman Mailer based on J. Michael Lennon’s biography ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life''. The series will be produced by Mailer Tuchman Media, run by John Buffalo Mailer. | |||
* '''2022-03-07''': Darryl Pinckney writes “[https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/norman-mailer-white-negro/ My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours]” in ''The Nation''. He surveys the history of “The White Negro” and various contemporaneous and contemporary reactions to it. | |||
* '''2022-03-03''': Mailer’s ''The Fight'' comes out on top in “[https://www.thesportsman.com/articles/world-book-day-2022-five-unmissable-reads-from-the-ring World Book Day 2022: Five Unmissable Reads From The Ring].” | |||
* '''2022-02-09''': [https://oicanadian.com/gay-talese-turns-90-his-10-maxims-to-write-a-good-chronicle/ Gay Talese turns 90: his 10 maxims to write a good chronicle]. | |||
* '''2022-02-08''': [https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/08/opinion/nuanced-reading-canceled-writers/ Readers respond to Michael Mailer’s piece] about his father and other “canceled” writers in the ''Boston Globe''. | |||
* '''2022-02-07''': [https://soundcloud.com/wvia-public-media/barbara-mailer-wasserman-february-07-2022 Barbara Mailer Wasserman is interviewed by WVIA Public Media]. | |||
* '''2022-02-04''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/04/books/jason-epstein-dead.html Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93]. His literary and marketing instincts brought quality paperbacks to American readers and led to the creation of ''The New York Review of Books''. | |||
* '''2022-02-03''': Michael Mailer writes “[https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/02/03/opinion/canceling-my-father-norman-mailer-us-needs-stop-eating-its-own/ Canceling my father, Norman Mailer: The US needs to stop eating its own]” in the ''Boston Globe''. He argues, “It needs to stop canceling great writers who made essential contributions to our cultural vibrancy. Committing bad acts does not invalidate their cultural legacies.” | |||
* '''2022-02-02''': David Klion, in “[https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/mailer-wolff-random-house/ Norman Mailer Wasn’t Canceled],” argues the ''The White Negro'' “deserves to be studied and situated in its context rather than censored for its antiquated racial language.” He reminds those proponents of cancel culture that Mailer “captured something urgent about [his] time, challenged an older generation’s conventional wisdom, and cultivated a younger readership hungry for something vital and relevant.” | |||
* '''2022-01-31''': Happy birthday to Norman Mailer on what would have been his 99th birthday. | * '''2022-01-31''': Happy birthday to Norman Mailer on what would have been his 99th birthday. | ||
* '''2022-01-30''': “[https://playcrazygame.com/2022/01/31/what-nadal-did-in-australia-deserves-a-book-by-norman-mailer-01-30-2022-juca-kfouri/ What Nadal Did in Australia Deserves a Book. by Norman Mailer].” | * '''2022-01-30''': “[https://playcrazygame.com/2022/01/31/what-nadal-did-in-australia-deserves-a-book-by-norman-mailer-01-30-2022-juca-kfouri/ What Nadal Did in Australia Deserves a Book. by Norman Mailer].” | ||
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* '''2022-01-10''': “[https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/10/if-norman-mailer-can-be-cancelled-no-one-is-safe/ If Norman Mailer can be cancelled, no one is safe]” argues Tim Black, perhaps overstating the issue based on the facts, but his point is strong. He continues: “This ought to chill the bones of anyone concerned about freedom today. Because if a figure as towering as Mailer can be cancelled, then no one, dead or alive, is safe. . . . The results of this purge of the dissenting, divergent or just plain anachronistic are all around us, on the page and lining bookstore shelves. Fiction, especially so-called literary fiction, is increasingly dull and sanitised.” | * '''2022-01-10''': “[https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/01/10/if-norman-mailer-can-be-cancelled-no-one-is-safe/ If Norman Mailer can be cancelled, no one is safe]” argues Tim Black, perhaps overstating the issue based on the facts, but his point is strong. He continues: “This ought to chill the bones of anyone concerned about freedom today. Because if a figure as towering as Mailer can be cancelled, then no one, dead or alive, is safe. . . . The results of this purge of the dissenting, divergent or just plain anachronistic are all around us, on the page and lining bookstore shelves. Fiction, especially so-called literary fiction, is increasingly dull and sanitised.” | ||
* '''2022-01-07''': “[Mailer] stalked the twentieth century like a proud satyr: hideous, provocative, funny and insightful, and always true to himself.” [https://unherd.com/2022/01/norman-mailer-cant-be-cancelled/ Read more] from Tomiwa Owolade in his insightful op-ed on the Random House brouhaha. | * '''2022-01-07''': “[Mailer] stalked the twentieth century like a proud satyr: hideous, provocative, funny and insightful, and always true to himself.” [https://unherd.com/2022/01/norman-mailer-cant-be-cancelled/ Read more] from Tomiwa Owolade in his insightful op-ed on the Random House brouhaha. | ||
* '''2022-01-06''': “[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/mailer-and-the-monoculture Mailer and the Monoculture]” by Geoff Shullenberger considers “The White Negro” and | * '''2022-01-06''': “[https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/mailer-and-the-monoculture Mailer and the Monoculture]” by Geoff Shullenberger considers “The White Negro” and its continued relevance: {{" '}}The White Negro’ was an early shot fired in what we now call the culture war. It set the agenda for debates that persist to this day, albeit in sometimes unrecognizable forms. All of this makes Mailer’s posthumous cancellation a revealing incident.” | ||
* '''2022-01-05''': “You can’t cancel Norman Mailer.” From ''The New York Times'': “[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/books/norman-mailer-random-house-skyhorse.html Norman Mailer Book to Be Released by Skyhorse].” In the wake of a seemingly made-up controversy, the record is set straight by [[John Buffalo Mailer]] and [[J. Michael Lennon]] in an article by Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris. | * '''2022-01-05''': “You can’t cancel Norman Mailer.” From ''The New York Times'': “[https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/04/books/norman-mailer-random-house-skyhorse.html Norman Mailer Book to Be Released by Skyhorse].” In the wake of a seemingly made-up controversy, the record is set straight by [[John Buffalo Mailer]] and [[J. Michael Lennon]] in an article by Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris. | ||
* '''2022-01-04''': “[https://bookandfilmglobe.com/uncategorized/the-execution-and-un-execution-of-norman-mailer/ The Execution and Un-Execution Of Norman Mailer]” by Neal Pollack states that “Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere.” | * '''2022-01-04''': “[https://bookandfilmglobe.com/uncategorized/the-execution-and-un-execution-of-norman-mailer/ The Execution and Un-Execution Of Norman Mailer]” by Neal Pollack states that “Millennials hate him and he must go, but he’s not going anywhere.” | ||