Today we bring you an exclusive interview with Maggie McKinley, president of the Norman Mailer Society in Chicago.

The Norman Mailer Society is a non-profit literary society dedicated to American author Norman Mailer. The Society promotes his legacy holding an annual meeting of scholars and enthusiasts, publishing The Mailer Review, Project Mailer, and The NMS Podcast, awarding the Robert F. Lucid Award for the year's best scholarship, and encouraging continued interest in his work through all forms of media.

Maggie McKinley is an Associate Professor of English at Harper College in Illinois, where she teaches courses in composition and American literature and also serves as department co-chair. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Understanding Norman Mailer (U of SC Press, 2017), and her work has appeared in Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and The Mailer Review, among other places. She is currently editing two collections for Cambridge University Press: Norman Mailer in Context and Philip Roth in Context.