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Dissent is a democratic socialist magazine of politics and culture founded in 1954. Dissent published Norman Mailer's controversial essay "The White Negro" in 1957, and Mailer served on the magazine's editorial board for more than three decades.

Jeff Zimbalist is a multi-Emmy and Peabody winning filmmaker most known for IDA and Tribeca Film Festival winner FAVELA RISING (HBO), Emmy winner and Cannes Film Festival favorite THE TWO ESCOBARS (ESPN, Disney), Emmy and Tribeca Film Festival winner MOMENTUM GENERATION (HBO, Universal), PELÉ: BIRTH OF A LEGEND (Magnolia, Universal), the Emmy winning series ReMastered (Netflix), Emmy nominated The Line (Apple), Emmy nominated 11 Minutes (Paramount+), Super League: War for Football (Apple), Sundance and Tribeca festival favorite INVISIBLE BEAUTY (Magnolia), and most recently, Sundance hit SKYWALKERS: A LOVE STORY.

Susan Mailer is a psychoanalyst and lives mostly in Chile where she teaches, supervises and has a private practice. Her memoir In Another Place, with and without my father Norman Mailer was published in 2019. She has written numerous psychoanalytic articles and co-edited with Michael Lennon and Gerald Lucas the recently published Lipton’s, A Marihuana Journal 1954-55.

Writer and producer of HOW TO COME ALIVE With Norman Mailer,    Vicki Marquette was raised in Vegas and educated at Vassar. She's a curious cinephile and a bonafide history nerd. Previous work includes ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN, Secrets of Playboy, and REMASTERED: THE LION'S SHARE, which won her an Emmy. When not doing docs, she writes comedic scripts, makes short films, eats lentils and does ballet (for beginners).

Supported by a Humanities New York Action Grant

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