From the NMS President

By on April 9, 2012 in Family, Heritage

As many of you may know, John Buffalo Mailer has been waging a vigorous campaign to get the Village Voice, the publication his father helped found, to cease publishing sexually exploitive classified ads in BackPages.com, which the Voice owns. The response has been overwhelmingly favorable.

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Norris Church Mailer Celebration

By on March 29, 2012 in Events

Please join us to celebrate the life and spirit of Norris Church Mailer. . .

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Creative Non-Fiction Workshops

By on March 21, 2012 in Colony

Announcing Summer 2012 Creative Non-Fiction workshops at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.

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Reinventing a New Wheel: The Films of Norman Mailer

By on March 19, 2012 in Excerpt

An excerpt from The Mailer Review, Volume 5. A film historian analyzes the quality of Mailer’s cinematic contributions in his four films.

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Support for the Colony

By on March 19, 2012 in Colony

Great news for all those who have applied or are planning to apply for a summer 2012 writing workshop at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.

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Apply for Summer 2012 at the Mailer Colony

By on March 5, 2012 in Colony

Provincetown, MA, beautiful coastal community of artists and thinkers, is ready to welcome you to the fourth season of summer workshops and fellowships at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.

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Was Marilyn Monroe a Synesthete?

By on February 3, 2012 in In the Media

On p. 47 [in Marilyn Monroe: A Biography, Mike Lennon] found Mr. Mailer describing what can only be understood as Ms. Monroe’s synesthesia. In recounting her first husband, Jim Dougherty’s recollections of her, he said . . .

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Conference 2012: Call for Papers

By on January 30, 2012 in Announcement, Conference

The Program Committee seeks proposals for panel presentations during the Tenth Annual International Conference of The Norman Mailer Society, to be held in Provincetown, MA. “Norman Mailer: Achievements and Paradoxes” is the theme of the conference and papers on any topic related to Norman Mailer will be considered.

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