Norman Mailer Society/News/2016

• 2016-11-28: In “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.
• 2016-11-10: The Norman Mailer Society is happy to announce that the Robert F. Lucid Award for the best Mailer book of 2015 goes to Kevin M. Schultz for Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties.
• 2016-11-02: In “When Bob Dylan Practiced Downstairs,” Lucian K. Truscott talks about the time Mailer met Dylan.
• 2016-10-01: Tim Lemire reprises his Norman Mailer impression.
• 2016-07-18: “Judy Feiffer, Who Helped Develop Two Top Memoirs, Dies at 87”; Her portrait of Norman Mailer appeared on the jacket of the first edition of his 1959 book Advertisements for Myself.
• 2016-07-16: The Republican convention begins on Monday, and the Democrats get their turn the following week. Writer Thomas Mallon gives Linda Wertheimer a reading list to prepare for the conventions, including mentions of Norman Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago and The Armies of the Night.
• 2016-07-15: In “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. 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.

• 2016-06-30: 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 “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 book your rooms.