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{{Mr-top}} {{shortcut|MR}}{{big|'''''The Mailer Review''''' is a print journal published annually by the [[Norman Mailer Society]]

...''The Company You Keep''); reviews regularly for ''The New York Times Book Review'' and has written for magazines ranging from ''Tricycle'' and ''Salon'' to [[Category:2008 Vol. 2 (MR)]]

{{Mr-top}} ...creative works, interviews, cultural/biographical commentary, images, and book reviews relevant to the life and work of [[Norman Mailer]]. We also publish

...oets Against War'', ''Plum Tree Tavern'', and ''Wordpeace''. His published book collections are: ''The Fourth Turning'', ''Grass Hill'', ''Ekphrastic Night [[Category:2021 Vol. 15 (MR)]]

...tion Studies'', ''Lifewriting Annual'', ''Chicago Tribune'', ''New England Review'', ''Hippocampus'', and ''Provincetown Arts''. He teaches in Wilkes Univers * {{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1986 |title=Critical Ess

Eliot, and ''The Oxford Book of English Verse''. It moved him no end when the publishers of ''The Executioner’s Song'' reprinted in full, from the ''London Review of Books'', his tribute to the masterpiece.

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...eth-century literature and film and is the founding editor of ''The Mailer Review''. * {{cite book |editor-last=Sipiora |editor-first=Phillip |date=2013 |title=Mind of An Out

...hantom Drift'', ''Postscripts'', ''Selene Quarterly Magazine'', ''The Temz Review'', ''The Third Alternative'', and TOR.com. [[Category:2021 Vol. 15 (MR)]]

book-length post-Katrina essay ''Why New Orleans Matters''. His other books ''The New York Times Book Review'', ''Bookforum'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The Oxford American'', ''The New Repu

This book is for my wife, Robin. this book. I would also like to thank Professor Oscar Cargill,

...es from My Life''. He also served on the editorial board of the ''[[Mailer Review]]''. His many contributions to understanding Mailer the man and Mailer the * {{cite book |last=Leeds |first=Barry H. |date=2002 |title=The Enduring Vision of Norman

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...ublished in ''The Mailer Review'' and ''Literary Journalism Studies''. His book on the New Journalism of the 1960s and 70s was published in 2012. He publis [[Category:2021 Vol. 15 (MR)]]

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...ent of the [[Norman Mailer Society]], the Digital Editor of ''[[The Mailer Review]]'', and the Society’s webmaster. In 2014, he was a Norman Mailer Fellow * {{cite book |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |last2=Lennon |first2=Donna Pedro |editor-

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participation in National Book Awards week, ...n between. They were extremely well attended and very well received by the book

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.... I never got beyond page 3. But I wanted to write a war novel — just like Mr. Mailer. ...speak about ''[[The Gospel According to the Son]]'' and sign copies of the book. We arrived four hours before he spoke. I sat in the second row, dead cente

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/</span>Volume 3, 2009}} {{Mr-top}}

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...hael Lennon, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life'', as well as co-editing a new book on Mailer’s writings on democracy with Lennon titled, ''The Mysterious Co [[Category:2008 Vol. 2 (MR)]]

...this year, and nobody knows how many more in the years to come. The book, Mr. Mailer’s first, is a big, tough, cynical, startling novel about the war ...y present scale, it would last a day and a half.” Besides the book rights, Mr. Mailer will also profit from an adaptation which Lillian Hellman (distingu

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/</span>Volume 7, 2013}} {{Mr-top}}

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...of the Book|Norman Mailer: A Man of Letters Inspired by the People of the Book]] {{Review|state=expanded}}

...dited by J. Michael Lennon, with Bert Stern’s extraordinary photographs, a book conceived by [[Larry Schiller]]. In the same year the Criterion Collection ...urther, we are proud to offer a range of creative works as well as several book reviews related to the life, work, and times of Norman Mailer.

...g words about what he had read from my recently published autobiographical book, pages dealing with World War II — the beginnings of our lives as gro {{Review|state=expanded}}

...''The Mailer Review''/Volume 2, 2008/</span>Acceptance Speech for National Book Foundation Award}} ...Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. The Medal was presented by Nobel Prize Winner [[w:Toni Morrison

...he National Book Award. Five of his books have been nominated for National Book Awards, including ''[[Of a Fire on the Moon]]'' (1971), his nonfiction narr ...ature and culture with a Lifetime Achievement Award, given by the National Book Award Foundation. For the last 33 years of his life, he lived in Brooklyn H

...I have ever done in fiction. But they were the hardest fifty pages of the book to write and certainly took the longest time. |author=Norman Mailer |source * {{cite magazine |last=Cowley |first=Malcolm |date=October 23, 1955 |title=Mr. Mailer Tells a Tale of Love, Art, Corruption |url= |magazine=New York Hera

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 2, 2008/</span>Norman Mailer’s Best Sellers}} ...ose of ''Naked''. ''Armies'' also won the [[w:National Book Award|National Book Award]] in the arts and letters category.

...to be better. Being married right now for me is much easier than writing a book.” ...you want to be with?” I said. “Yes,” Norman said, “but when I’m writing a book it’s like I’m married to a woman who I’ve got to improve now. I’ve

* {{cite book |last=Adams |first=Laura |date=1977 |title=Existential Battles: the Growth * {{cite book |editor-last=Adams |editor-first=Laura |editor-mask=1 |date=1974 |title=Wil

...r’s Song'' is a modernist project that puts him in high company. No Mailer book brings us as close to events and character as this work of creative nonfict ...enjoyed since {{date|1967}} with ''[[The Armies of the Night]]''. His new book surprised expectations in two ways now regarded as truisms: it is written i

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 5, 2011/</span>Tributes to Norris Church Mailer}} My father once dedicated a book he and I wrote together to my mother, with the words:

...nversation of each of my colleagues, as if to drive home the thrust of his book. Others in his position might simply have offered up a slice of their celeb {{dc|dc=L|ast year I opened a book and out dropped}} an aging yellow envelope with an unfamiliar address. It h

...impact has prompted John {{harvtxt|Leland|2004}} to cite the essay in his book ''Hip: The History'' as central to that history. Beat Generation chronicler ...de every reference to Mailer’s essay that has appeared in the pages of ''{{MR}}''. Included also are biographies and memoirs that reference the essay or

...throughout the unusual, provocative, and often metaphysical narrative. The book reads like a novel, at turns rhythmic and lyrical and challenging. The way ...of how good their use of imagery is. As Mailer says towards the end of his book: “''certainly the hour of happiness would be here when men who spoke like

...A digital editor’s guide for remediating print articles to digital for ''{{MR}}''. |url=http://prmlr.us/remediate}} ...ors who want to help in moving, or “remediating,” our print version of ''{{MR}}'' to the digital version here on Project Mailer. Please read this documen

...doubt. The finest writing of this book comes not in the first half of the book in which Mailer describes his actual experience, nor in the historical or j ...ght''. In {{date|1968}}, its year of publication, I was 10. I come to this book therefore from a position perhaps somewhat different from my colleagues her

“If I delete it, the book will be more of a page-turner,” said Norman. Feeling encouraged, I respon ...rough this celebration of the life of Norman Mailer. Ladies and gentleman, Mr. [[The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/Norman

...empted ''Gravity’s Rainbow''. Magic spell! First time I tried to read that book, I was blocked and confounded by the same bananas. Here’s a snippet of th ...t Evenings]]'' the book, in the Library of Congress section, describes the book as, first, about Egypt, and then about “history” and then finally as fi

...couple of years later, when he wanted to learn ballroom dancing, he got a book that diagrammed the fox trot and other dance steps with pictures of the fee ...couple of years later, when he wanted to learn ballroom dancing, he got a book that diagramed the fox trot and other dance steps with pictures of the feet

* {{Anchor|Aldrich (2008)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Aldrich |editor-first=Nelson |date=2008 |title=George, Being G ...rl=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/09/archives/life-with-mailer-as-his-new-book-comes-out-the-notorious-author-is.html |url-access=limited |magazine=New Yo

...''Brain Surgeon''. Mailer’s influence leads to the success of Shainberg’s book, and, as Beckett will tell him later, his strength as a writer in “witnes ...challenging in its themes. It is difficult to encapsulate in a short book review, and it seems a disservice to try to do so.

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 9, 2015/</span>Norman, Ernest, and Greg}} ...s the beautiful preface that Norman wrote for my father’s memoir Papa. The book was published in 1976 and whenever I come across a copy I ask myself just h

====Essays, Articles, Book Chapters, and Dissertations==== ...sue= 2|date= 2007|page= 62|access-date= |ref=harv }} This article offers a review of several of Norman Mailer’s more controversial confrontations with cont

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 2, 2008/</span>''The Castle in the Forest'': A Conversation with N ...50 interviews given by Mailer on ''[[The Castle in the Forest]]'' during a book tour that took him to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Wa

...I thought might be part of Norman’s book-turned-play. But having read the book I knew it was not that. The three were yelling and threatening one another {{Review}}

...d it. Time, September, 2010. Projection screen shows the cover of Norris’s book, ''A Ticket to the Circus''.<br /><br />AT RISE: Norris stands at the podiu ...ed him to sign it. Crazy thing is I’d bought it by mistake. You know those Book-of-the-Month Club cards? I’d forgotten to send mine back and ''Marilyn''

<blockquote>Dear Mr. Moyer: ...nd to stay in one place. For now, I whisper it, I have ideas of starting a book this fall. Perhaps we’ll meet another year. I think I might look forward

{{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=2018 |chapter=''An American Dream'' |title {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1|date=2018 |chapter=APPENDIX: Pref

...Alliance''. That foreword became part of his chapter on the occult in his book about writing, ''The Spooky Art''. ...then (the mid-1970s). We all lived in Brooklyn Heights in those days, and Mr. Mailer’s brownstone was across the street from where Judith lived and ab

...st of its values of excitement and bravura to the staging and direction of Mr. Peter Brook. Whatever life <i>Marat/Sade</i> has on the stage comes, in my ...g called upon by the partisans of <i>Marat/Sade</i>, notably its director, Mr. Peter Brook. What Dostoevsky's work proved, to those, of course, who know

...these 2011 figures, sales of ebooks have fallen, attesting that the print book might have a longer life. ...ow, even our realization of the ebook is directed by our conception of the book in its printed form: i.e., on ''atoms''. When we truly begin to think digit

The book is collaboration between Mailer and Lennon in getting at Mailer’s beliefs ...disguises his personal life. He is not a memoirist. But here, in his last book, come some touching memories that are devoid of any theology or any bombast

...''Advertisements for Myself'' I sought his address in the Manhattan phone book and in that sacrosanct era was able to find it with ease; “I would like t ...rotechnics or at least technics of my own and if there had been a ''Mailer Review'' in 1960 or even 1983 I would have fantasized finding a way into it. Here

...orized biographer who led the conversations that constitute this absorbing book. In the preface Lennon observes that “Although his novels and narrative n ...ts as truly as Adam once did the animals in Genesis. Make no mistake, this book cannot be read casually.

...icant books, won almost every known literary prize (including the National Book Award and two Pulitzers), and left his indelible mark on American literatur ...drinking the first bottle over a couple of hours of spirited conversation. Mr. Mailer, as John addressed him, insisted on being called Norman; but he bro

{{byline |last=Norris |first=K. D. |abstract=The first book of ''The Armies of the Night'', “History as a Novel,” is a personal acc ...ned possession of the book; evidently someone, maybe me, thought it a good book for a journalist to read. It was and still is.

...on of [[Norman Mailer]] and his work against the backdrop of Middlebrook’s book, ''Mailer and the Times of His Time''. San Francisco: Bay Books, 1976.|url= {{cquote|I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit.|author=Emer

...orest'' precipitated some numbskull head-scratchings in the reviewers. Was Mr. Mailer showing off, reeling off all these Hitlerian sources? Was he duckin ...ually responsible is such a book? Or, the prior question, what does such a book claim as to factual responsibility? Is the alternative the merely factitiou

...ith, Josef Vice, and Rian Williams. Original documents, including his 2004 book ''Norman Mailer’s Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969'', were g ...am'', like full-text scholarly essays and reviews, advertisements, various book covers, and other snippets that give insight into Mailer’s artistic and l

...e''.|Edited and with an introduction<br />by Geoff Dyer.<br />NY: New York Review of Books 2019<br />Paperback $19.95.|align=right|width=25%}} The catchy title for the book duplicates the title of a short essay from 1942 that is included in the vol

...first=Phillip|url=https://prmlr.us/mr01sip|note=An earlier version of this review appeared in ''The Tampa Tribune'' in January 2007. My thanks to the ''Tribu ...ange with Günter Grass. Fall 2007 will mark the publication of yet another book by Mailer — on the subject of cosmology.

...Florida, this double-issue annual has appeared each fall since 2007. The ''Review'', which contains a broad range of expertly edited essays, reviews, memoirs ...Review'', ''Commentary'', ''Harper’s'', ''New Yorker'', and ''The New York Review of Books''. Not counting interviews, routine letters to the editor, questio

...umentary about Mailer.<ref>Allen King, Director ({{date|1968}}).</ref> The book and the film share the conviction that Mailer is a whirligig whose only ide ...n ''Esquire'' from 1953 to the present.</ref> ''Partisan Review'', ''Paris Review'', ''Playboy'', ''Harper’s'', ''Life'', ''The NYRB'', ''The New Yorker'',

...song,}} “Everything Old Is New Again,” reminds me of Norman {{NM}}’s final book, ''On God: An Uncommon Conversation''. Allen’s lyrics call attention to t ..., of their ultimate insufficiencies. In explaining his motivation for this book, Mailer emphasizes the importance of order: “Where does my desire for ord

...ight on this question and is one-half the subject of Kevin M. Schultz’ new book ''Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties''. ...ply held positions, to be respectful of others above all else.”<ref>{{cite book |last=Schultz |first=Kevin M. |date=2013 |title=Buckley and Mailer: The Dif

...Images of Norman Mailer’s unpublished works and letters are published with Mr. Mailer’s permission. Copyright © 2007 by Norman Mailer. Images of mater ...itted to Bellevue Hospital for observation. The entries in his appointment book for the week of November 21–27 include an interview with Mike Wallace a f

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 6, 2012/</span>Mailer is Back}} ...ing through Orleans, less than an hour back down the mid-Cape highway. The book’s length, I offer, may be an American record, surpassing James Jones’s

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 2, 2008/</span>Norman Mailer: ''The Executioner's Song''}} ...ht is an American tragedy. |note=This essay first appeared in the ''London Review of Books'' ({{date|1980-03-16|DMY}}) and was reprinted in ''Reviewery'' (Ha

...|first=Walter|abstract=On one level, ''[[The Castle in the Forest]]'' is a book about life of the lower classes of the German-speaking section of the Austr ...: “Hitler. To come to Europe is somehow to pay him a visit.” In his latest book, Norman Mailer has paid a visit to the two Austrian regions which are home

...Esquire will not have the huge proportions and extreme ambition of the big book described in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''. No, that work is now to be {{Review|state=expanded}}

...od. Scibona’s novel, ''The End'', was nominated last year for the National Book Award. He wrote most of the book in Provincetown as a fellow and future

...ting the Vietnam War. His books won many of the major prizes (the National Book Award and two Pulitzers) and his work took on the big themes like war, terr ...ves are neither clean nor illumined. But profit-oriented.” And in his last book, ''On God: An Uncommon Conversation'' published in October 2007, he rejecte

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 6, 2012/</span>Mailer Matters}} ...vember/December |pages= |doi= |access-date=2019-02-27 }} Reprinted: {{cite book |last=Kirby |first=Alan |chapter=The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond |dat

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 9, 2015/</span>Project Mailer 2015}} ...ociety, has begun modestly. This year has seen the start of ''[[The Mailer Review]]''’s online presence; two informal sister publications: “Norman Mailer

...ems arise) “some legions of decency were alarmed and attempted to have the book banned.”{{sfn|Maurois|2017|p=184}} The Attorney General of England denied * {{cite book |last=Lennon |first= Michael J. |date=2013 |title=Norman Mailer: A Double L

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 6, 2012/</span>Literature As Life; Life As Literature: Mailer’s ...go, and in the process have forged a highly personal relationship with the book.

...nity charges to a text as a whole. For example, each time I teach a banned book or controversial text, I begin by asking students to show me specific words ...who made a clear connection between rebellion and masculinity. In his 1952 book, ''Prescription for Rebellion'', Lindner explains how psychology encouraged

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 2, 2008/</span>Norman Mailer: ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago''}} ...st published in {{date|1968}} and reissued earlier this year by ''New York Review Books''. A version of this essay first appeared in the ''Atlantic''.|url=ht

{{cite letter |last=Mailer |first=Norman |recipient=''New York Review of Books'' |subject=Protest |location=10:5 |date=March 4, 1968 |url= |acces ...ast=Mailer |first=Norman |author-mask=1 |recipient=the Editors, ''New York Review of Books'' |subject=Violence in Oakland |location=10:9 |date=May 9, 1968 |u

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 9, 2015/</span>Introduction to Taschen Edition of ''Superman Comes ...ast=Lennon|first=J. Michael|abstract=An introduction to the recent Taschen book-length version of Norman’s Mailer’s classic 1960 ''Esquire'' essay on J

...fferent companies so we didn’t see exactly the same combat. But he wrote a book about the war there called ''The Day the Century Ended''. It’s interestin

'''Luddy''': I would get another writer to adapt the book and convince Norman {{Review}}

book. In two long paragraphs, he tells of his grandfather taking his family, in ...iptions of several exceptional individuals and their achievements that the book is at its most engaging.

...item did not amount to enough to warrant inclusion. And, of course, if the book was read in 1969, much of the copy for Volume I of the ''Supplement'' (A– ...d certainly have been enhanced by a quotation excerpted from Peter Manso’s book, ''Running Against the Machine'', which dealt with Mailer’s campaign for

{{DISPLAYTITLE:<span style="font-size:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 11, 2017/</span>Children of Major Writers}} ...ce, and I thought that was normal. And I thought that anybody that wrote a book, that was at our house had that same fame. So I grew up like that, but I di

{{start|In this intelligent book, the first volume-length critical study}} of Mailer since established the parameters of his study: “This book is an analysis of the