Darryl Pinckney will deliver the keynote address, "Norman Mailer, America, and Race Politics," for the Norman Mailer Society annual conference in Austin in recognition of Mailer's centennial.
The Norman Mailer at 100 conference keynote talk will be followed by a reception at the Harry Ransom Center, where the "Stories to Tell" exhibition includes items from Mailer's archive that highlight three cultural touchstones of his writings: Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Women’s Liberation.
Pinckney's memoir, Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan, was published in 2022. A 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, it recounts his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
Darryl Pinckney will deliver the keynote address, "Norman Mailer, America, and Race Politics," for the Norman Mailer Society annual conference in Austin in recognition of Mailer's centennial.
The Norman Mailer at 100 conference keynote talk will be followed by a reception at the Harry Ransom Center, where the "Stories to Tell" exhibition includes items from Mailer's archive that highlight three cultural touchstones of his writings: Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Women’s Liberation.
Pinckney's memoir, Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan, was published in 2022. A 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, it recounts his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world.
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