The Norman Mailer Center Gala - A Meeting of Giants

Date: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Location: Mandarin Oriental Hotel, New York City 
What: Fourth Annual Benefit Gala honoring Robert A. Caro, Joyce Carol Oates, Barnet Lee Rosset, Jr., and The Muhammad Ali Center represented by Muhammad Ali

'With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.' -- Norman Mailer 

Norman Mailer and Muhammad Ali arm wrestling

The Norman Mailer Center supports and celebrates writers who challenge readers' perspective on the world around them, promoting a vision of writers as "people of action."

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Muhammad Ali

A diverse set of programming supports the Center's mission, including creative writing workshops, the Mailer Fellowships, and initiatives for international outreach and exchange. Through its work, the Center provides support to early- and mid-center writers in all genres who embrace the values that drove Mailer's work: those who reach a broad audience, fully excise their creativity, apply themselves to the craft of writing with the rigor of an athlete, and thrive on dialogue and debate. 

The Norman Mailer Center and the NM Writers Colony

In 2011, the Center launched a Capital Campaign to purchase the historic Mailer Home in Provincetown, MA, from the Mailer estate, which includes his writing studio and Mailer's personal library of over four thousand books. 

The Center aims to preserve the role of the engaged writer's as not only a legitimate, but indispensable voice in the contemporary discourse (The Normal Mailer Center Website - nmcenter.org). 

An Evening with Paul Theroux

Paul Theroux

Date: Saturday, June 30

Time: 6:00 pm 

Location: Provincetown Town Hall Auditorium 

The Provincetown Public Library, in collaboration with the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, proudly presents a special appearance by acclaimed author and Massachusetts native Paul Theroux.  Theroux has written multiple best sellers including The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia.  He will be on hand at the historic Town Hall Auditorium for a discussion about writing, his life, and his new book, The Lower River.   

Theroux, who holds honorary doctorates in literature from Trinity College in Washington and Tufts University, is appearing as part of fundraising efforts organized by the Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony.  He is also the 1977 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Literature Award winner and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society in Britain.  Doors open at 5:30 pm and the event is free to all Provincetown residents, although donations are accepted.  Non-resident admission is $10.  Cash and checks only will be accepted at the door.

Following the Town Hall presentation, at 8:00 PM, there will be a private reception, with an opportunity to meet Mr. Theroux, at the Mailer Center at 627 Commercial Street.  Reservations and a donation of $125 per person (of which $100.00 will be tax-deductible) are required for the reception, which will be limited to 80 persons.  All proceeds of the evening will go toward the Center's capital campaign to purchase* of the Mailer home from the Mailer Estate.

Reservations for the reception at the Mailer home can be made by calling 646 374 3939, option 1.