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.... Each are divided according to work. Abbreviations that were not included in {{harvtxt|Lennon|2008a|}} or {{harvtxt|Adams|1974|}} are new to this projec | ''SFNM''{{efn|Abbreviated ''SF'' in {{harvtxt|Adams|1974|p=4, passim}}.}}

In field artillery, forward observers are told to bracket a target. If, in their estimation, the first shot falls three hundred yards short, they call ...g psychopath, full of brilliance, arrogance, cruelty, and bad spelling all in one. So ''Oswald’s Game'' presents a thesis that is unpleasant but not to

...was the nearest guideline to absolute truth that the working novelist had in my young days.” See [[85.14]]. ...mes to My Aid |title=Who Lost An American |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126139 |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |pages=1–29

...An examination of the dimensions, complications, and rewards of collecting works by Norman Mailer. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr03ahe }} definitely a good artist. Others must agree because, in my experience, many

...the Picasso’s work that gave a new imperative to his own culture-readings. In his relationship with the lives of Marilyn Monroe and Pablo Picasso, Mailer ...bout it, since although “the ambitious dialogues”{{sfn|Mailer|1965|p=261}} in both ''The Presidential Papers'' and ''Cannibals and Christians'' owe much

...year by ''New York Review Books''. A version of this essay first appeared in the ''Atlantic''.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr02hit}} ...been rehearsing for some kind of ideological synthesis, and discovering it in the most improbable of places.

...arry Ransom Humanities Center, Flair Conference: Norman Mailer and America in Conflict, {{date|2006-11-10|MDY}}.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr01len}} ...one) a novelist, actor, movie director, pugilist, political candidate,<ref>In 1969, Mailer ran for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City;

Begun in 2015, the Norman Mailer Society Podcast is the brainchild of host and creat ...2-25 || style="min-width: 175px;" | Podcast Premiere: J. Michael Lennon || In this inaugural episode of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast, host [[Justin

...eceded him and created a perimeter around him, he always did what he could in an individual encounter to dismantle the unreality that such preconditionin ...cal object. Whatever the answer turned out to be in the abstract, Mailer’s works are not objects — they are subjects. Mailer’s work helped me see th

...=Much of the following has been incorporated into ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: Works and Days]]''.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr03bib}} ...rv}} Norman Mailer answers questions concerning his new novel ''The Castle in the Forest''.

...ion in order to resolve dilemmas. Mailer is part of the Romantic tradition in terms of his understanding of reality. He does not wholly resist resolution ...plications of all of this. All the while I had Mailer’s phone number stuck in my wallet with the knowledge that I could visit him to “talk more.” Yet

...s, these writers transformed their personal angst into great art, creating works that—like Mount Kilimanjaro—endure.|note=An earlier version of this pap ..., and was also published the same year as Fitzgerald’s articles. All three works, I believe, reveal this writer/author alienation, but I decided to use as m

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Mythic Mailer in ''An American Dream''}} ...workings of the subconscious where the epiphany originates, in other words in the dream.{{sfn|Frye|1957|p=684}} }}

...st-tracked into obvious truth that Mailer’s Legacy Quotient (LQ) is unique in that his “character” supersedes and eclipses his canon of work A ...r’s behavior, in short, is all that matters to some critics. The LQ axiom, in Mailer’s case, remains commonplace: character overshadows canon.

...fiction. The book’s chapter on Mailer’s ''[[Ancient Evenings]]'' appeared in the 2009 edition of ''[[MR09|The Mailer Review]]'', so the “essay” belo ...And there is no Truth in us.|author=Betty Jean Craige|source=''Relativism in the Arts''}}

...Gwaltney?” he went on to ask his interviewer. “Gwaltney and I were buddies in the Philippines. We went into different companies so we didn’t see exactl ...red. He later told Edward de Grazia that “fug” was used for “fuck” because in the 1940s “you just couldn’t get near it”; see {{harvtxt|Lennon|2013|

...ography: Mailer told Lennon toward the end of his life, to “put everything in,” and he has: triumphs, disasters and all the warts. ...gh because he easily got impatient. I don’t think he was really interested in what I had to say; he wanted to talk and be heard. . . . If you ask me what

...’ system for a proposed, compressed edition of the journal to be published in the future and to include the Mailer-Lindner correspondence. [This system h ...vous. The true history of the mind is not preserved in learned volumes but in the living mental organism of everyone.|author=[[w:Carl Jung|Carl Jung]]|so

...s piece prefigure and announce the new mode of Mailer’s nonfiction writing in the late 1960s and 1970s, notably ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'', it is th ...source of perception about the human condition. In fact, in his 1993 essay in ''Esquire'', “The Best Move Lies Next to the Worst,” he deals with his

...ize:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 9, 2015/</span>“Up to the Nostrils in Anguish”: Mailer and Bellow on Masculine Anxiety and Violent Catharsis}} ...onflict have shifted what new perspective might readers have of this work? In particular, what now can be said about the novel’s depiction of the shapi

...th powers unknown, helped to twist and turn us unproductively inward while in the background arose a damnable Asian war that left us mocking the principl ...the 1960s, spun inside out in the 1970s, and set before a fun-house mirror in the 1980s, we remained consumed by the mysteries of the self. Our unswervin

...that everyone has been asking since the day Oswald himself was gunned down in full view of the television public: Did he do it? And, if so, why? |url=htt {{dc|dc=S|o, comes now Norman Mailer in the year 1995,}} to the High Court of Public Opinion, as he inevitably must

...beyond Mailer scholarship, which is a way of saying that Mailer is not (or in a just world ''would not be'') merely of interest to specialists. ...ailer at least, had the great utility of making life meaningful especially in the face of cultural forces that trivialize meaning-making activities.

...this paper was given at the 2008 Norman Mailer Conference, October 16–18, in Provincetown, MA.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr03vin}} ...her, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'' (Basic Books, 1979). His book won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the same year that Norman Mailer wo

...know that what usually does not work, or is too dangerous to attempt, can, in a special case, prove the winning move. Maybe that is why attempts are made ...an}} was expected to annihilate Muhammad Ali in “The Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire, Foreman suffered a cut over the eye while sparring. His trainer, Dic

...agazine''. I had published my first book entitled ''Acts of Regeneration'' in 1981 about Mailer’s work; based on that book, editor John Bethell (a kind [[File:1983 Mailer and Begiebing.jpg|thumb|Robert Begiebing and Norman Mailer in the latter’s Brooklyn apartment, September 1982. Photo by Christopher Joh

...purposeful, and which tackles the large, eternal questions of life, often in striking, disarming, or blasphemous ways. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Mailer e ...examine Norman Mailer, if not quite as a Russian writer, then as a writer in the light of Russian literature. I am, of course, not the first person to n

thief.” I am that thief, a biographer who slides in, snatches every bit of fact, ...tters, calendars, journals, marginalia, books and articles, spending hours in dark archives, riffling through pages and pages, seeking treasure. She also

The good is disregarded in every place.

...el |note=Abbreviations for titles of books by and about Mailer referred to in the notes are linked or may be found on “[[Norman Mailer's First Editions ...in print. Random House will publish a selected edition of Mailer’s letters in 2008, edited by Lennon.