Norman Mailer Society Conference in Provincetown - October 12-14, 2006

CONFERENCE THEME: THE POLITICAL NORMAN MAILER

AFTER EIGHTY YEARS, NORMAN MAILER GETS HIS DAY Friday, January 31, 2003 proclaimed as "Norman Mailer Day" by the Provincetown Board of Selectmen Norman Mailer is presented with the proclamation of "Norman Mailer Day in the Town of Provincetown" by Provincetown Town Manager Keith A. Bergman.

Mailer on Provincetown. “There could be no other town like it. If you were sensitive to crowds, you might expire in summer from human propinquity. On the other hand, if you were unable to endure loneliness, the vessel of your person could fill with dread during the long winter. . . . “Conceived at night (for one would swear it was created in the course of one dark storm) its sand flats still glistened in the dawn with the most primeval innocence of land exposing itself to the sun for the first time.” – Tough Guys Don’t Dance, 1984

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