The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007/Norman Mailer: Supplemental Bibliography Through 2006
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This checklist picks up where Norman Mailer: Works and Days (Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press 2000) by J. Michael and Donna Pedro Lennon left off at the end of 1998. It consists of chronologically listed entries of significant works by and about Mailer that have appeared from that time through 2006. In addition, entries for a number of items that appeared from 1980–1998, items unknown or unavailable to the Lennons at the time their bio-bibliography was published, have been added. This checklist is, therefore, a supplement to Works and Days, although it cannot claim to be comprehensive. Many brief interviews, joint letters to the editor, ephemera, and Mailer quotations of uncertain authenticity in the popular press and Internet have been passed over; others have certainly been missed. Doubtless some significant secondary works have not been located. Entries for these and for the continuing stream of narratives, essays, interviews, poems, letters to the editor, and drawings by Mailer will eventually be gathered, it is hoped, into a successor volume to Works and Days. Annotations have been provided for all items by Mailer, but not for most secondary items. Apology is made to those whose essays or monographs about and interviews with Mr. Mailer have escaped attention.
1982
Secondary
Beidler, Philip D. (1982). American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 220 pp., indexed.
1986
Secondary
Chevigny, Bell Gail (1986). "Twice Told Tales and the Meaning of History: Testimonial Novels by Miguel Barnet and Norman Mailer". Centennial Review. 30 (2): 181–95.
Mierau, Maurice A. (1986). "Carnival and Jeremiad: Mailer's The Armies of the Night". Canadian Review of American Studies. 17 (fall): 317–26.
1988
Primary
Interviews
“Norman Mailer: The Tough Guy Is Really a Cuddly Jewish Teddy Bear.” Profile-interview by Pearl Sheffy Gefen. Lifestyles (International Edition) 92 (1988), 60, 62–64. During a visit to Toronto to launch his film, “Tough Guys Don’t Dance,” Mailer is interviewed by this Jewish cultural magazine, headquartered in Ottawa. He speaks about the film, but also makes extended comments on his Jewishness.” He says, “Being Jewish is a whole inner way of life, and the Holocaust took away any possibility of telling myself I wasn’t Jewish.”
Secondary
Mottram, Eric (1988). "Norman Mailer: Frontline Reporter of the Divine Economy". In Lee, Robert A. First Person Singular: Studies in American Autobiography. New York: St. Martin’s. pp. 217–43.
