[Conntech] FW: Remembering Norman Mailer April 24th

[Slaga, Susan Jan (Library)]

This event will be held at Central Connecticut State University, New
Britain, CT.  Parking is available in the Student Center garage.  For
directions to the campus go to:

http://www.ccsu.edu/viewbook/find_us.htm

 

 

From: Gigliotti, Gilbert (English) [mailto:Gigliotti at mail.ccsu.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:31 PM
To: AdminUsers (ListServ)
Subject: Remembering Norman Mailer April 24th

 

Remembering Norman Mailer:

A Conversation with

Barry Leeds (Friend), J. Michael Lennon (Biographer), and John Buffalo
Mailer (Son)

 

April 24th, 4-6pm

Founders Hall

Central Connecticut State University

 

Contact: Robert M. Dowling, Associate Professor of English 860-832-2741;
dowlingrom at ccsu.edu

 

Barry H. Leeds, CSU Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, is
Vice-President of the Norman Mailer Society and a longtime friend of
Norman Mailer's. Over the course of his career, he has written
extensively on Mailer's life and art. His books include The Structured
Vision of Norman Mailer  (NYU, 1969), Ken Kesey (Unger, 1981), and The
Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer (PBS, 2002), and he has published over
two hundred articles, reviews, and anthology chapters. He received his
B.A. (1962) and M.A. (1963) degrees from Columbia University, and his
Ph.D. from Ohio University (1967). Dr. Leeds has taught at CCSU since
January, 1968, and prior to that at the City University of New York, the
University of Texas at El Paso, and Ohio University (Athens). He has
lectured at universities and conferences nation-wide and
internationally, and has been interviewed by a variety of media:
television, radio, and newspapers. He was Editor-in-Chief of Connecticut
Review from 1989 to 1992, and a member of the Editorial Board from 1986
to 1995.  

 

J. Michael Lennon is Norman Mailer's archivist, editor and authorized
biographer and has written/edited several books about him, including
(with Donna Pedro Lennon) Norman Mailer: Works and Days (2000), Critical
Essays on Norman Mailer (1986), Conversations With Norman Mailer (1988),
The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing (2003) and numerous essays in
journals and magazines. His work has appeared in New Yorker, Paris
Review, Playboy, New York, Modern Fiction Studies, New England Review,
Narrative, and Journal of Modern Literature, among others. His latest
book, co-authored with Mailer, is On God: An Uncommon Conversation
(October 2007). Lennon is also editing Mailer's letters, to be published
in 2008. Lennon's documentary, James Jones: From Reveille to Taps, was
shown on PBS in 1985. He is Emeritus Vice President for Academic Affairs
and Emeritus Professor of English at Wilkes University, where he
continues to teach in the MFA Program, and is current President of the
Norman Mailer Society. He holds the M.A. and Ph.D. in English from URI. 

 

John Buffalo Mailer, Norman Mailer's son, is currently the Director of
Development for Tar Films, the film and documentary division of Tar Art
Media. While still in college, John published his first novella, Hello
Herman, in The Reading Room, vol. 1, Great Marsh Press in 2000. He is a
founder of Back House Productions, the resident theater company of The
Drama Bookshop's Arthur Seelan Theater, who have developed, among many
plays, the recent hit musical, In The Heights.  In 2001, John's first
play, an adaptation of Hello Herman, had its New York Premiere at the
Grove Street Playhouse. His second play, Crazy Eyes, had its world
premiere in Athens, Greece in 2005. John took the position of Executive
Editor for High Times magazine from 2004-2005 to help re-launch the
notorious publication. He is the co-author of The Big Empty (Nation
Books, February '06) a book of discussions between him and his father,
Norman Mailer, on topics ranging from Protest to Poker and everything in
between. John is a client of CAA, Anonymous Content, and The Wylie
Agency. He is a member of The Dramatists' Guild, Actor's Equity
Association, The Playwright/Director's Unit of The Actors Studio, has
lectured at the University of Notre Dame, Wesleyan, the University of
Athens, Syracuse University, The New York Society for Ethical Culture,
The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, and has appeared on
Hannity and Combs, Air America, Democracy Now, WNYC, and CSPAN's Book
TV.  He is the author of several screenplays, including Blind, which is
being produced by Mike Nichols. 

 

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