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* '''2016-11-28''': In “[https://www.weeklystandard.com/william-h-pritchard/stormin-norman Stormin’ Norman],” William Pritchard reviews [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s ''[[Norman Mailer: A Double Life]]'' and ''[[The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer]]'' and gives an overview of Mailer’s ''oppositional'' career as a writer and public voice. | * '''2016-11-28''': In “[https://www.weeklystandard.com/william-h-pritchard/stormin-norman Stormin’ Norman],” William Pritchard reviews [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s ''[[Norman Mailer: A Double Life]]'' and ''[[The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer]]'' and gives an overview of Mailer’s ''oppositional'' career as a writer and public voice. | ||
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* '''2016-07-15''': In “[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/nyregion/art-installation-in-torrington-is-a-colorful-reflection-of-a-river-and-a-community.html Art Installation in Torrington Is a Colorful Reflection of a River, and a Community],” Jan Ellen Spiegel profiles Danielle Mailer who enlisted local volunteers to help create a mural-like work, with enormous fish covered in bright patterns, along the Naugatuck. | * '''2016-07-15''': In “[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/nyregion/art-installation-in-torrington-is-a-colorful-reflection-of-a-river-and-a-community.html Art Installation in Torrington Is a Colorful Reflection of a River, and a Community],” Jan Ellen Spiegel profiles Danielle Mailer who enlisted local volunteers to help create a mural-like work, with enormous fish covered in bright patterns, along the Naugatuck. | ||
* '''2016-07-11''': From [[Danielle Mailer]]: ''The New York Times'' is doing a story on my mural project which is supposed to come out Sunday the 17th although you never know. [https://youtu.be/_aj_JsZEfuE This is a 3-minutue video] Pete made of the year long process to make this 186ft mural install. We will start in two weeks attaching piece by piece the entire mural to the back of this long white wall that will soon be painted blue as the backdrop for the mural. I have raised 70k mostly state grants and private foundations and have a team of 5 installing and painting wall — not to mention the 50 people in the community who have been my painting interns. So all pretty exciting. Even the mayor an here City officials have come by and done a few brush strokes. | * '''2016-07-11''': From [[Danielle Mailer]]: ''The New York Times'' is doing a story on my mural project which is supposed to come out Sunday the 17th although you never know. [https://youtu.be/_aj_JsZEfuE This is a 3-minutue video] Pete made of the year long process to make this 186ft mural install. We will start in two weeks attaching piece by piece the entire mural to the back of this long white wall that will soon be painted blue as the backdrop for the mural. I have raised 70k mostly state grants and private foundations and have a team of 5 installing and painting wall — not to mention the 50 people in the community who have been my painting interns. So all pretty exciting. Even the mayor an here City officials have come by and done a few brush strokes. | ||
[[File:Mailer-Gelgud.jpg|thumb]] | * [[File:Mailer-Gelgud.jpg|thumb]]'''2016-06-30''': In anticipation of the Republican and Democratic national conventions later this summer, Nathan Gelgud, a correspondent for the ''Daily'', will be posting a regular weekly comic about the writers, artists, and demonstrators who attended the contested 1968 DNC. See “[https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/06/27/unconventional-part-3-norman-mailer-and-the-pigs/ Norman Mailer and the Pigs].” | ||
* '''2016-06-16''': If you are attending this year’s conference in Long Branch, David Light would like to remind you to [[Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2016 Long Branch, NJ#Book Your Rooms|book your rooms]]. | * '''2016-06-16''': If you are attending this year’s conference in Long Branch, David Light would like to remind you to [[Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2016 Long Branch, NJ#Book Your Rooms|book your rooms]]. | ||
* '''2016-06-09''': Paul Reyes discusses Mailer’s ''The Fight'' in “[https://lithub.com/muhammad-ali-a-reading-list/ Muhammad Ali: A Reading List]”: “Mailer’s prose is wrought, sweaty, each paragraph a three-way wrestling match between syntax, trope, and ego.” | |||
* '''2016-06-04''': [https://www.smh.com.au/sport/boxing/muhammad-ali-who-would-deny-the-greatest-his-immortality-20160604-gpbkww.html Muhammad Ali: RIP ‘the greatest’]: “The world's greatest athlete is in danger of being our most beautiful man. Women draw an audible breath. Men look down. They are reminded again of their lack of worth. If Ali never again opened his mouth to quiver the jellies of public opinion, he would still inspire love and hate.” | |||
* '''2016-05-17''': [https://hyperallergic.com/299504/the-wooster-group-revisits-norman-mailers-attack-on-feminism/ The Wooster Group Revisits Norman Mailer’s Attack on Feminism]: Disturbed, disruptive, and displayed across projectors and television screens, Norman Mailer infects the Performing Garage’s stage with his patented brand of misogynistic bravado. | |||
* '''2016-05-10''': From Joshua Prager, Mailer Fellow. An extraordinary literary journey, ''[https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=4294990774 100 Years]'' celebrates every age from birth to 100 with quotations from the world’s greatest writers. | |||
* '''2016-04-05''': In “[https://www.vulture.com/2016/04/how-new-york-magazine-covered-the-oj-verdict.html How ''New York Magazine'' Covered the O.J. Simpson Verdict],” Christopher Bonanos discusses hiring Norman Mailer on a very short deadline. | |||
* '''2016-03-23''': In “[https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/mailer-trump Mailer on Trump],” Paul Baumann writes: “I’m hardly the first person to lament the fact that Norman Mailer, who died in 2007, is not around to help explain what Donald Trump’s political apotheosis means for the future of democracy and the fate of the nation.” And he won’t be the last. | |||
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* '''2016-03-15''': The 2016 Mailer Poetry Fellowship will take place at the renowned Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA July 9th to July 31st. We are very excited to announce that our 2016 Poetry Fellowship will take place this Summer Season from July 9th to July 31st at the prestigious Pepperdine University campus in Malibu, California. Our resident mentor will be the internationally acclaimed poet, Meena Alexander. Fellowships will be awarded to five (5) poets with one writer coming from California. All fellows will be provided with apartment housing with a kitchen during their three week residency. Each apartment will be comprised of two (2) private bedrooms, a shared bathroom, kitchen and living room. These on-campus apartments are located across the street from the writing classrooms and just up the street from the main cafeteria. More at the [https://nmcenter.org Norman Mailer Center]. | |||
* '''2016-01-21''': The Norman Mailer Society Podcast is mentioned by James Wolcott in ''Vanity Fair'', Feb 2016. Congratulations, Justin! | |||
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