John Buffalo Critical of Advertisements

John Mailer, son of Norman Mailer, joins 80,000 supporters of campaign on Change.org to ban sex ads that may feature minors on Village Voice-owned Backpage.com.

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Participatory Journalism of Norman Mailer

Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported.

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Call for Papers: Review Volume 6

The Mailer Review is calling for papers on “Why Mailer Matters,” a special emphasis in the sixth volume of the Review (Fall 2012). Papers dealing with any aspect of Mailer and other figures are also encouraged.

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Join Us on Facebook

Did you know that the Norman Mailer Society is on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr? If not, you might want to join us.

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Feminine Take on Masculine World

Over the weekend at a gallery on West 27th Street, the young artist and onetime Playboy model Katrina Eugenia unveiled her first solo exhibition. The show itself has an epigram from Mr. Mailer’s “The Gospel According to the Son.”

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Why Mailer Matters: Three Reasons

Mailer was the most important public intellectual in the American literary world for over 30 years, and along with other figures such as William Buckley, Saul Bellow, Gore Vidal and Susan Sontag, helped establish the creative writer as important a commentator as politicians, pundits and professors.

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Conference 2011 Hotel Information

The first conference hotel is The Mansion at Judges’ Hill, with the price of $159.00 per night. You may begin to make reservations via phone (512-495-1800) or email (reservations@judgeshill.com). At this time, The Mansion does not accept group reservations on-line. When you call in or email you must state “I am with the Mailer-Jones Societies Group.” If [...]

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Preview: The Review 2011

I am pleased to inform you that we are well along in preparing the 2011 issue. We will feature memorial tributes to Norris Church Mailer, who tragically passed away in November of 2010. Norris was a stalwart supporter of the Review, and she will always be in our thoughts and pages.

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