Norman Mailer, the irascible, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and sometimes irreverent and controversial journalist, wrote on a wide range of topics with a one-of-a-kind style from the 1940s through the mid-2000s. In his literary career, he published a dozen novels and 20 works of nonfiction. He also wrote hundreds of essays, stage plays, screenplays, television miniseries, two books of poetry and a collection of short stories. Included in this body of work is a famous 1960 essay published in Esquire magazine on the political emergence of John F. Kennedy (JFK).
Sunday, April 26, 2015 @ 2:00 pm
Hickory Stick Bookstore
2 Green Hill Road
Washington, Connecticut 06794
860-868-0525
(about 80 miles north of NYC)
Discussion between Danielle Mailer & J. Michael Lennon
Danielle Mailer and Michael Lennon will discuss the life and work of her father, Norman Mailer. Danielle, a distinguished visual artist who has enjoyed great success of late with public commissions for her sculptures, is the second eldest of his nine children. Please join us for a relaxed discussion, in which we will also talk about her artistic career and vision, and how it was influenced by both her parents—her mother Adele is also a visual artist.
J. Michael Lennon’s books Selected Letters of Norman Mailer (2014) and Norman Mailer: A Double Life (2013) will be available for purchase.
DID YOU KNOW: In the summer of 1955, Mailer purchased two standard poodles, Tibo, who looked like a black sheep, and Zsa Zsa. They produced 32 pups over 17 years. Zsa Zsa died first; Tibo is buried in the garden of the house Mailer and his then-wife Beverly Bentley lived at 565 Commercial Street in Provincetown, MA. Mailer said that Tibo made such a variety of intelligent sounds that he appeared about to speak. Partly because of Tibo, Mailer concluded that dogs have souls.
Thanks to Justin Bozung, The Norman Mailer Society Podcast is now live on iTunes. Mike is featured in the first episode — posted here a few days ago — and new episodes will be published every two weeks. Please subscribe using iTunes and support the on-going efforts of Project Mailer.
It’s refreshing and more than a little nostalgic to see the trials, triumphs, and tribulations of Mailer’s time through his own combative eyes, before writers were marginalized as influential public figures.
In this inaugural episode of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast, host Justin Bozung speaks with Mike about The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, Mailer’s ’60s ambitions, The Deer Park, Picasso, and The Naked & The Dead.
The latest issue of The Mailer Review reflects the celebrated author’s multifaceted personality with articles on some of his major works and reminiscences from his family.