Norman Mailer and Provincetown Arts Press

Authors

Provincetown Arts, Provincetown, Christopher Busa, Blue Nights, George Hirose, Peter Manso

An editor recounts Norman Mailer’s long relationship with Provincetown Arts Press.

Christopher Busa, Provincetown Arts Press

Christopher Busa is founding editor of Provincetown Arts Press (www.provincetownarts.org), a nonprofit publisher of the annual journal Provincetown Arts, monographs on distinguished older artists, and first books of poetry by new poets. He was born in New York City in 1946 and grew up exposed to the art world as the son of a painter who participated in the formative years of Abstract Expressionism. Spending part of every year in Provincetown since infancy, he slowly absorbed its mythology as a place where artists and writers meet to work and live. After graduation from the University of Minnesota, he studied for a year in Paris at the Sorbonne, and then pursued a PhD for ten years while teaching English at Rutgers University. His interviews and profiles of artists and writers have appeared in Arts, Garden Design, Paris Review, Partisan Review, Mailer Review, and other journals. He is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and on the board of the Norman Mailer Society.