October 15, 2020

Project Mailer Update, 2020 covid-19: day 208 | US: GA | info | act

Outline for my panel presentation for the Norman Mailer Society Virtual Conference, 2020.

• The Faith of Graffiti
  • Written by me and my graduate students in the spring
  • An official WP “Good Article”
• “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” on WP
  • Discuss in the next panel
• Lipton’s Journal
  • Looking for an intern or two to help
  • Everything still under construction, so anything here now could change
    • Everything is annotated, either in-text or with links to Wikipedia
  • Mailer/Lindner Correspondence
    • Introduction by Susan Mailer
  • Lipton’s Introduction
    • Historical, biographical, thematic, textual, and logistical
  • Entries
    • Trying to get a functional and logical presentation for the project
    • Should be searchable, primarily
    • May try to construct an idea of names and ideas
• Student Editors
  • The Mailer Review Volume 2
    • Bib remains unfinished, but should be soon
• Proposal: New Page on WP: “Themes in Norman Mailer’s Work” (Initial Themes)
  • Based on a similar page about Maya Angelou
  • Multi-authored article submitted to The WikiJournal of the Humanities
    • Posted on Wikipedia as its own article
    • Updating the Recurring Themes section of Mailer’s WP entry.

How you can help

• Volunteer to remediate
• Volunteer as an intern for Lipton’s
• Volunteer to help on WP
  • Article on NM’s Themes
  • Wikiproject Mailer
  • Educators: get your students involved
    • WikiEdu