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* '''2019-11-09''': Via ''The Nation'', “[https://www.thenation.com/article/lauren-michele-jackson-white-negroes-interview/ Lauren Michele Jackson Wants to Change How We Talk About Appropriation]”: “I honestly can’t remember when I first encountered [[The White Negro|Mailer’s essay]], but it was in the back of my head as I was compiling this project and thinking of a name for it. In some ways, the connections between these two works are fairly loose: I’m borrowing a term and elaborating upon it for my own purposes. But because I am borrowing, too, I want to actually acknowledge the essay and do a close reading of it in a way that feels meaningful.”
* '''2019-11-04''': Via ''Deadline'', “[https://deadline.com/2019/11/mailer-tuchman-media-debuts-film-and-tv-slate-norman-mailer-drama-1202774991/ Mailer Tuchman Media Debuts Film And TV Slate Anchored By Norman Mailer Drama]”: “Mailer Tuchman Media has launched with an initial slate of film and TV projects anchored by Mailer, a drama series about the late author/provocateur. Mailer’s son, John Buffalo Mailer, is creative director of MTM, which is both producing and financing. Joining him are Martin Tuchman, the company’s executive producer, and Jennifer Gelfer, executive director.”
* '''2019-10-27''': Via ''New York Times'': “[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/arts/abbie-hoffman-archive.html Steal This Archive? Abbie Hoffman’s Papers Become a College Collection].” There are notes and letters from other icons of the 1960s. Cards from John and Yoko. A letter from Allen Ginsberg, the poet, offering to help him raise defense money. A plea by Norman Mailer to the governor of New York, seeking executive leniency on his behalf.
* '''2019-10-13''': [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/oct/11/nnedi-okorafor-books-that-made-me Nnedi Okorafor] on influential books: “'''The book that changed my mind''': ''The Executioner’s Song'' by Norman Mailer. I’d always been against capital punishment and that was that; this novel made me truly think it through. I remain against capital punishment, but I have clearer reasons now.”
* '''2019-10-12''': [[J. Michael Lennon]], [[Donna Pedro Lennon]], and [[Gerald R. Lucas]] win the 2019 [[Robert F. Lucid Award|Lucid Award]] for ''Norman Mailer: Works and Days''.
* '''2019-10-09''': The [[Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2019 Wilkes-Barre, PA|2019 Conference]] begins tomorrow. The [[Norman Mailer Society/Conference/2019 Wilkes-Barre, PA/Program|final program]] has been posted. See you in Wilkes-Barre!
* '''2019-10-03''': Via ''Slate'', Matthew Dessem has some words for Donald Trump: “[https://slate.com/culture/2019/10/donald-trump-snake-alligator-moat-kubla-khan-coleridge.html Some Lines, On the Occasion of Discovering That One of Donald Trump’s Border Plans Was a Moat Filled With Snakes].”
* '''2019-09-10''': Via ''Variety'', [https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/the-capote-tapes-review-1203328580/ Toronto Film Review: “The Capote Tapes”]: The people on the tapes include Mailer, who tells a terrific story about drinking with Truman in an old Irish bar and realizing what adrenaline (and courage) Capote must have lived with at every moment, and a friend who says that Capote swore by the motto, “Don’t ever let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
* '''2019-09-02''': Via the ''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/obituaries/barbara-probst-solomon-dies-at-90.html Barbara Probst Solomon, Who Wrote of Spain Under Franco, Dies at 90]. [[Barbara Probst Solomon]], an American memoirist and essayist known for documenting life in Spain during and after the regime of Gen. Francisco Franco, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 90.
* '''2019-09-02''': Via the ''New York Times'': [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/01/obituaries/barbara-probst-solomon-dies-at-90.html Barbara Probst Solomon, Who Wrote of Spain Under Franco, Dies at 90]. [[Barbara Probst Solomon]], an American memoirist and essayist known for documenting life in Spain during and after the regime of Gen. Francisco Franco, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 90.
* '''2019-09-01''': [[Jerome Loving]] has written a [https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2343&context=wwqr eulogy for Rip Torn] for the ''Walt Whitman Quarterly'' in which Mailer is mentioned.
* '''2019-09-01''': [[Jerome Loving]] has written a [https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2343&context=wwqr eulogy for Rip Torn] for the ''Walt Whitman Quarterly'' in which Mailer is mentioned.
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* '''2019-02-05''': [[Norman Mailer Society/Join/2019 Membership Drive|2019 Membership Drive]]: We begin our annual Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive
* '''2019-02-05''': [[Norman Mailer Society/Join/2019 Membership Drive|2019 Membership Drive]]: We begin our annual Norman Mailer Society Membership Drive
* '''2019-01-26''': The ''Washington Post'' reports that [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/diana-athill-british-literary-editor-turned-award-winning-memoirist-dies-at-101/2019/01/24/eff744a6-1feb-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html Diana Athill, one-time Mailer editor, dies]. She was 101.
* '''2019-01-26''': The ''Washington Post'' reports that [https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/diana-athill-british-literary-editor-turned-award-winning-memoirist-dies-at-101/2019/01/24/eff744a6-1feb-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html Diana Athill, one-time Mailer editor, dies]. She was 101.
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