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2022-12-16 : Wikimedia 1.39.0 update.
2022-12-01 : The Society now has its own dedicated web site: normanmailersociety.org
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2021-05-25 : Lipton’s Journal has been posted in its entirety. Check out our newest Digital Humanities project: fully searchable, browsable, and annotated.
2021-02-15 : New entry posted: 79.35a .
2021-01-18 : New entries posted: 92.11a , 92.11b , and 92.11c .
2020-10-20 : The entirety of The Mailer Review volume two has been posted.
2020-08-20 : The table of contents has been posted for The Mailer Review , Volume 13, 2019 .
2020-08-23 : New entries: 71.30a and 04.17 .
2020-06-02 : New entries: 00.12a , 03.16a , 04.3a , 04.4a , 04.4b , 04.7a , 05.1b , 05.1c , 05.11a , 06.8a , and 07.34a .
2020-05-31 : New entries: 91.47b , 92.2a , 95.30a , 96.5a , 97.23d , 98.14b , 98.15a , and 99.2b .
2020-05-30 : New entries posted: 72.3a , 72.3b , 78.2a , 78.3a , 79.3a , 79.4a , 79.33a , 80.4a , 83.6a , 83.10a , 84.3a , 84.27b , 87.10a , 88.9a , 89.0 , and 89.1a .
2020-05-25 : New entries posted: 58.4a , 61.21b , 61.21c , 63.27a , 67.9a , 68.3c , 71.30b , 00.4a , and 00.7a .
11/09/19 : Reposted Mike Lennon’s essay “Why Mailer Matters .”
11/07/19 : Help us with our work on Wikipedia. Now posted: WikiProject Mailer .
09/01/19 : Posted the prologue, “The Riptides of Fame: June 1948 ,” from Mike Lennon’s Norman Mailer: A Double Life .”
08/01/19 : The table of contents for The Mailer Review volume 11 has been posted. Volume 11 should be shipping in a matter of days.
07/28/19 : Added the Norman Mailer Society Podcast page and created archive. New episodes coming soon.
05/29/19 : Posted Andrew M. Gordon ’s “Mailer’s Use of Wilhelm Reich ” from MR , volume 10. Also began the rudimentary designs of Lipton’s Journal .
05/27/19 : Posted Victor Peppard ’s article: “The Curious Story of Norman Mailer’s Engagement with Short Fiction ”; and Enid Stubin ’s “ ‘Don’t Go Away Feeling Unequal’: ‘The Time of Her Time’ and Mailer’s Conciliatory Impulse .” Both from MR , volume 10.
05/26/19 : Posted Kate Mailer ’s keynote from 2015: “People Who Look Alike Are Alike .”
05/25/19 : Posted “Family Colloquium ”; “An American Tragedy and The Executioner’s Song : Receptions and Controversies ”; and “Teaching Controversy: Mailer in the College Classroom ” all from MR , vol. 8.
05/24/19 : New {{byline }} template.
05/23/19 : New addition to The Mailer Review : Mailer ’s “The Hazards and Sources of Writing ” from volume 3 .
05/22/19 : The Mailer Review has finally been moved to PM, to its new home, and additional posts are being added all the time, like Gerald R. Lucas ’ “Norman Mailer and the Novel 2.0 ” from volume 5 .
05/04/19 : The final part of the Works and Days Cultural Backgrounds bibliography has been posted.
04/29/19 : Moving the web site for the Norman Mailer Society . Let us know what you think .
04/27/19 : Middle Georgia State University recognizes the efforts of graduate student editors in their work on AAD Expanded . See “MGA Graduate Students Publish Digital Humanities Project About Norman Mailer .”
04/26/19 : Major steps have been taken toward the completion of AAD Expanded . The complete text of J. Michael Lennon’s Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969 has been posted as well as some articles, gallery, and full-text essays. See the project credits for more.
04/20/19 : Carnegie Hall Memorial tributes are now posted.
04/14/19 : Added four new full-text introductions from Mailer, see 70.7 , 81.10 , 04.4 , and 08.2 .
04/11/19 : Development of An American Dream Expanded continues.
03/20/19 : Added Index of Names to Works .
03/16/19 : All entries of Works have been posted. Beginning on the Index of Names .
03/12/19 : Works has been posted through the 1990s, including some full-text additions, like Christopher Busa ’s 1999 interview .
03/09/19 : Works has been posted through the 1980s, including some full-text additions.
03/08/19 : Frank D. McConnell ’s chapter “Norman Mailer and the Cutting Edge of Style ” from his 1977 study Four Postwar American Novelists: Bellow, Mailer, Barth, and Pynchon has been posted.