In Memory of Chris Busa

Authors

Chris Busa, tribute, Norman Mailer Society, Provincetown

The president of The Norman Mailer Society recalls Chris Busa’s warmth, humor, and intellectual curiosity at the Society’s annual conferences.

Maggie McKinley, Harper College

Maggie McKinley is Associate Professor of English at Harper College. She is the author of Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Understanding Norman Mailer (U of South Carolina Press, 2017). Her work has also appeared in Philip Roth Studies, Studies in American Jewish Literature, and The Mailer Review, among other places. She is currently the president of the Norman Mailer Society, and the editor of Philip Roth in Context and Norman Mailer in Context, forthcoming in 2021 from Cambridge University Press.