Susan Mailer, daughter of Norman Mailer, reads from her new memoir In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer at the 2019 conference of the Norman Mailer Society, Wilkes University, October 10, 2019….
From a literary career that garnered two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award to his infamous clashes with prominent members of the Women’s Liberation movement, Norman Mailer was among the most celebrated, talented and…
Nicole DePolo writes: Mailer is a wonderful writer. Susan Mailer, that is. In her first memoir, In Another Place, Susan shines brightly as she presents vignettes of her own formative moments alongside valuable glimpses into…
Susan Mailer is the author of a new memoir, In Another Place, a book about her intense and complex relationship with her father, her five stepmothers and nine siblings, and the joys and pains of being…
Interviewer: J. Michael Lennon. Originally published online in Hippocampus Magazine, October 2019. Posted here with permission. As a practicing psychoanalyst, you have published professional papers, but this is your first creative work. Why did you…
Bags of ice, bottles of rum and tequila, and cold beer. It was Friday evening in Mexico City and time for the fun to begin. Mom and Salvador went out or entertained every weekend. Sometimes…
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…