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* '''2020-12-23''': “[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/business/media/village-voice-new-owner.html The ''Village Voice'' Rises From the Dead]” — The owner of ''LA Weekly'', another independent publication, plans to restart ''The Voice'' next month. In addition to reviving the website, Brian Calle plans a quarterly print edition. | |||
* '''2020-11-12''': “One’s condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one’s being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness — the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.” Mailer and other famous tea experimenters are quoted today in “[https://theweedblog.com/celebrity/20-chill-quotes-about-cannabis 20 Chill Quotes About Cannabis].” | |||
* '''2020-11-10''': [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html Norman Mailer died 13 years ago today]. | |||
* '''2020-11-08''': ''Forward'' has published an excerpt from Susan Mailer’s memoir: “[https://forward.com/culture/457767/that-time-my-father-norman-mailer-introduced-me-to-norman-mailer-the/ That time my father Norman Mailer introduced me to Norman Mailer the celebrity].” | |||
* '''2020-10-30''': We might soon have television series based on ''Harlot’s Ghost'', according to ''[https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/mark-gordon-pictures-norman-mailer-harlots-ghost-1234819660/ Variety]'': “Norman Mailer spy novel ‘Harlot’s Ghost’ is getting the TV treatment, ''Variety'' has learned exclusively. Mark Gordon Pictures is developing the book for TV, having acquired the rights to the 1991 title.” How great would that be? | |||
* '''2020-10-23''': The ''Daily Bulletin'' lists ''[[The Executioner’s Song]]'' as one of “[https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/10/22/13-terrifying-books-to-haunt-your-dreams-as-halloween-approaches/ 13 terrifying books to haunt your dreams as Halloween approaches].” They write: “This is Mailer’s true-crime account of the murders perpetrated by Gary Gilmore and Gilmore’s execution by firing squad in Utah. It won the Pulitzer Prize for its portrayal of the devastation of those killings and the questions raised about the justice of capital punishment.” | * '''2020-10-23''': The ''Daily Bulletin'' lists ''[[The Executioner’s Song]]'' as one of “[https://www.dailybulletin.com/2020/10/22/13-terrifying-books-to-haunt-your-dreams-as-halloween-approaches/ 13 terrifying books to haunt your dreams as Halloween approaches].” They write: “This is Mailer’s true-crime account of the murders perpetrated by Gary Gilmore and Gilmore’s execution by firing squad in Utah. It won the Pulitzer Prize for its portrayal of the devastation of those killings and the questions raised about the justice of capital punishment.” | ||
* '''2020-10-20''': Join [[Susan Mailer]] and [[J. Michael Lennon]] in a virtual conversation about Susan’s memoir ''In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer'' at the 92Y on November 15, 2020 at 7pm EST. For more information, check [https://www.92y.org/event/my-father-norman-mailer the 92Y web site]. Registration is $20, and must be done before the event. | * '''2020-10-20''': Join [[Susan Mailer]] and [[J. Michael Lennon]] in a virtual conversation about Susan’s memoir ''In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer'' at the 92Y on November 15, 2020 at 7pm EST. For more information, check [https://www.92y.org/event/my-father-norman-mailer the 92Y web site]. Registration is $20, and must be done before the event. | ||