Norman Mailer’s Bestsellers

In six decades of work, Norman Mailer made the best seller list with…

Tributes to Norris Church Mailer

John Buffalo Mailer, Guest Editor

Mom

Tapestry

By: Susan Mailer

A couple of months before dad died, my husband and I went to Provincetown to visit him. The morning we left I went up to his bedroom to say goodbye. He looked at me with his very blue eyes and said “Susie, our family is a fine tapestry, you must take care it doesn’t…

The Mystery of Norman Mailer

By: Barbara Wasserman

As an amateur pianist, I’ve always liked the story about Vladimir Horowitz, perhaps apocryphal, that when asked by someone how to get to the stage of Carnegie Hall, he said, “Practice, practice, practice.” However, he didn’t have…

A Late Lunch

By: William Kennedy

I want to salute my dear friend Norris Church Mailer and express my gratitude to her for asking me to speak today.

I met Norman in late 1968 in New York when I was a movie critic and he was editing his film, Maidstone. I wanted an…

Reflections 2007

By: Phillip Sipiora, Editor

Tribute to Mailer

By: Tina Brown

On November 10th, 2007, I was in a hotel room in Udaipur, India, channel-surfing for something that wasn’t a Bollywood soap opera. Suddenly that familiar and beloved wide face with the questing blue eyes and the halo of white curls and the koala bear ears…

Reflections 2009

By: Phillip Sipiora, Editor

Taking Leave of Norman

By: Günter Grass

This memorial tribute was sent to Norris Church Mailer and read by Charlie Rose at Carnegie Hall on April 9, 2008.

His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, was one of the books I devoured as a young man soon after World…