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.
1989
Primary
Essays, poems, forewords, prefaces, introductions, symposia contributions, letters to the editor
Introduction to Messages: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1989, by Luke Breit, 5–8. Fort Bragg, CA: Q. E. D. Press, 1989. Soft cover. Mailer praises Breit (the son of the late Harvey Breit) for being “one of the best romantic poets we’ve got” and for giving him a lift. “Luke Breit is Doctor Breit, Traffic Consultant for locked-up synapses and fucked-up grace.”
Secondary
Kenny, James Michael (1989). Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and the Problem of the Non-fiction Novel (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alabama.
Miller, Gabriel (1989). "A Small Trumpet of Defiance: Politics and the Buried Life in Norman Mailer's Early Fiction". In Sorkoin, Adam J. Politics and the Muse: Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green University Popular Press. pp. 79–92. Reprinted in Bloom 2003.
Olster, Stacey (1989). "Norman Mailer after Forty Years". Michigan Quarterly Review. 28 (3): 400–16.
Schleifer, Ronald (1989). "American Violence: Dreiser, Mailer, and the Nature of Intertextuality". In Con Davis, Robert; O’Donnell, Patrick. Intertextuality and Contemporary American Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 121–43.
1990
Secondary
Edmundson, Mark (1990). "Romantic Self-Creations: Mailer and Gilmore in The Executioner's Song". Contemporary Literature. 31 (winter): 434–47. Reprinted in Bloom 2003.
1991
Primary
Essays, poems, forewords, prefaces, introductions, symposia contributions, letters to the editor
Foreword to Presences: Photographs of Heaton Hall, by Beverly Anoux Pabst. Torino, Italy, Stamperia Artistica Nazionale, 1991. Soft cover, no pagination. In his evocative three-page foreword, Mailer calls Pabst’s 45 photographs of this empty (and later razed) resort hotel in the Berkshires “the spookiest book of photographs I have seen,” and “one of the more eloquent.” He also makes the claim that “in searching for the occult, a photograph can be of more use than a painting.”
Secondary
Oriard, Michael (1991). Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Culture. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press. 579 pp., indexed.
1992
Primary
Interviews
“Waiting for Mailer’s Big One.” Article-interview by Gregory Feeley. Million: The Magazine about Popular Fiction (U.K.), no. 7 (January–February 1992), 38–42. The focus of Feeley’s comments and questions in this important piece is the many novels Mailer planned but did not write, including the “big novel” about death he worked on in the late 1950s, the sequels to Ancient Evenings, the biker novel he started in 1966 and an autobiographical novel which had its origins, Mailer says, in “the saga of the Mailer family back in Russia with my grandfather as I imagined him.” He abandoned it after reading the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
“Norman Mailer: The Hubris of the American Vision.” Interview by Eric James Schroeder. In Vietnam, We’ve All Been There: Interviews with American Writers, edited by Eric James Schroeder, 90–105. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992. One of 11 interviews in this collection, including those with Michael Herr, Robert Stone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tim O’Brien, and Larry Heinemann. Contains extended discussion of the Vietnam War, WWII, and three of Mailer’s books: The Naked and the Dead, Why Are We in Vietnam?, and The Armies of the Night. Mailer also discusses with some prescience the small wars of the future. Excerpts reprinted in The Spooky Art, 2003, (see above).
Secondary
Algeo, Ann M. (1992). The Courtroom as Forum: Homicide Trials by Dreiser, Wright, Capote and Mailer (Ph.D.). LeHigh University. (Truman Capote, In Cold Blood; Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy; Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song; Richard Wright, Native Son.
Novak, Odysseas (1992). "He megale peripolia tou Norman Mailer (Norman Mailer's long watch)". Diavazo. 286: 26–9.
O’Donnell, Patrick (1992). "Engendering Paranoia in Contemporary Literature". Boundary. 2, 19: 181–204.
O’Donnell, Patrick (1992). "The Voice of Paranoia: Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song". Prospectus. 17: 459–73.
