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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published an excerpt from the forthcoming ''[[Lipton’s Journal]]'': “[https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/norman-mailer-unpublished-marijuana-journal/ Saint and Psychopath].”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. | * '''2022-07-15''': [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]. | * '''2022-07-13''': 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]. | ||