Norman Mailer Society/News/2015

• 2015-12-14: Mailer Center Awards Young Writers: The Norman Mailer Center, founded after the novelist’s death in 2007 to sustain his aim of fostering fledgling writers, honors its 2015 winners—young writers and teachers—and awards $17,500 in prizes.
• 2015-12-11: Listen to “Superman Comes To The Supermart By Norman Mailer” on the Esquire Classic Podcast.
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  2015-11-04: Join the Norman Mailer Center on Thursday, December 10, 2015 in honoring Salman Rushdie for Lifetime Achievement.
• 2015-11-02: Peter Alson writes about acting with Demi Moore in “Star Turn”: “I went up to the Bronx the other day to visit the set of Blind, the movie my cousin Michael Mailer is directing, based on a script by my cousin John Mailer. Little did I suspect that I would wind up in the movie. The fact is, I’d been thinking I’d wait until they were filming in Manhattan to visit. So it was a very spur of the moment decision on my part, as it was no doubt Michael’s when he asked me if I’d like to be in the movie. …”
• 2015-10-29: An October update has been posted.
• 2015-10-20: Superman Comes to the Supermarket: An Examination of Norman Mailer’s 1960 Kennedy Campaign Essay. Thursday, October 29, 2015. Join Lawrence Schiller, Mailer’s co-author of Oswald’s Tale, in conversation with J. Michael Lennon, Mailer’s archivist and biographer. More information at JFK.org.
• 2015-10-13: “No Filter Screening Series Brings Mailer Doc To Williamsburg”: NO FILTER, a quarterly screening series hosted at the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg (uh, the hip New York Williamsburg, not the colonial one), will be screening Will The Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? on October 21st.
• 2015-10-12: “Village Voice Sold to Peter Barbey, Owner of a Pennsylvania Newspaper”: The Voice was founded by a triumvirate of New Yorkers — Dan Wolf, Edwin Fancher and Norman Mailer — and built a stable of writers who quickly became familiar to readers for their originality and wit.