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An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-25T15:48:33Z

Dillbug: /* Gallery */ added last misc item

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
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{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650418.JPG|Best Seller list in ''New York Times'', April 15, 1965, showing the novel in No. 3 position and in No. 5 position in the ''London'' edition.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650316 1.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy|Advertising Copy]] for the ''New York Times'', March 15, 1965
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]]
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |[[An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965|Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]]
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]]
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:19650514 Envelope.jpg|Envelope
}}
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|''Harper’s'' plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism.
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine states that “the only first-rate novelist is Norman Mailer” publishing in 1965.
|File:19650130.jpg|Tom Wolfe’s review of ''AAD'' is mentioned in ''Book Week'' on March 14, 1965.
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
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|File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A 1965 [[An American Dream Expanded/Trotter Letter, March 14, 1965|letter from William Trotter]] in support of Mailer.
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft offers her strong support for Mailer in this 1965 letter.
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. Mason, Madison, Wis.
|File:BillPowers SaturdayReview Page1.jpg|In his [[An American Dream Expanded/Definition of Selfhood|letter to the ''Saturday Review'']] (June 5, 1965), Bill Powers responds to criticism that ''An American Dream'' is a “literary hoax” and argues that through murder Rojack places himself “in the position to rebegin his life.”
}}
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== Articles ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Lewis Nichols In and Out of books.jpg|Lewis Nichols In and Out of Books
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/to do

2019-04-25T15:41:37Z

Dillbug: Added item

* All pages should use {{tl|aade-sm}} somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project
* <s>Add bibliography entries (Appendix II.doc in Letters directory).</s>
* Incorporate items in the Misc directory from the shared drive.
** Add to Gallery. (Everyone could do '''one''' of these, at least.)added 1 to gallery and 1 to snippets--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
::''(friends, I'm listing those files in Misc., please sign and strike off when you have uploaded them to PM for ease of recon)''~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 19:38, 16 April 2019 (UTC))
:#<s>196505 PW Best Sellers</s> --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:38, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19640302</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:56, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650125 Royalty Statement</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:33, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650310 Book Week News</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650315 Invitation</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:40, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650316 Advertising Copy</S>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly Currents</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 14:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650322 Publishers Weekly</s> I will do this one [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 11:05, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650401 Herald Tribune</s>~~ [[User:Waebo|waebo]][[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 15:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650403 New Republic</s>--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 15:16, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s> 19650418 Best Sellers</s> --[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:41, 25 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>19650514 Envelope</s>~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 13:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT))''Friends, I do not have access to a pdf to jpg/png convertor, so I uploaded this but only in pdf and it doesn't seem usable in that form. If you have access or a work around please advice or take and make happen''[[File:Cry.png|20px]]''Thanks!'' ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:54, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
::[[reply to|Dmcgonagill]] I have a pdf to jpeg file converter. [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 10:13, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Waebo}} Awesome! You want to convert my envelope one for me then? Or is it something you can share?~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 11:11, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to|Waebo}} Thank you Rian! Got the envelope up thanks to you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:13, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Waebo|Dmcgonagill}} I may have to borrow your services too, Rian. I've got several files I'm trying to convert. What program are you using that converts?? [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk|JVbird|talk]]) (UTC) 22:02, 19 April 2019
:#<s> 19650923 Mary Bancroft Letter- I will add </s> [[User:Waebo|Waebo]] --[[User:Waebo|Waebo]] ([[User talk:Waebo|talk]]) 11:36, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
:#<s>20190302_L The New York -I will add</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)Dillbug
:#<s>20190302_002</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302 Harper's plan</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:#<s>20190302_there's SOI park</s> [[User:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]] ([[User talk:ssimsjones|ssimsjones]]) 23:37, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
:<s># Cover Mock-up --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:#<s>Snippet - I will do</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:21, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:# Trotter Letter - I will do this one. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:01, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
* Secure permissions for essays.
* Post full-text essays.
* Secure permissions for reviews.
* Post full-text reviews. Working on Didion ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 23:21, 15 April 2019 (UTC))<s>Working on Buckley</s>[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:29, 16 April 2019 (UTC) <s>Working on Dana, North American Review</s> JVbird [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) {{reply to|Grlucas}} Should these full reviews be transcribed or posted as PDF and do we need to secure permission? Thanks, [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) (UTC)
:<s># Huffman-Jungian Approach --I will do this one, JVbird</s> [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])
:<s># Saturday Review -I will do this one JVbird</s>[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]])

:# <s>Nichols-NYT</s> -I will work on this one waebo[[User:waebo|waebo]] ([[User talk: waebo| talk]])
* Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc.
** Links to Wikipedia when appropriate.
* Post credits. (I'll do this near the project’s completion. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC))

File:19650418.JPG

2019-04-25T15:39:59Z

Dillbug:

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-25T15:24:09Z

Dillbug: /* Gallery */ corrected picture

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650316 1.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy|Advertising Copy]] for the ''New York Times'', March 15, 1965
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]]
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |[[An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965|Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]]
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]]
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:19650514 Envelope.jpg|Envelope
}}
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|''Harper’s'' plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism.
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine states that “the only first-rate novelist is Norman Mailer” publishing in 1965.
|File:19650130.jpg|Tom Wolfe’s review of ''AAD'' is mentioned in ''Book Week'' on March 14, 1965.
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A 1965 [[An American Dream Expanded/Trotter Letter, March 14, 1965|letter from William Trotter]] in support of Mailer.
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft offers her strong support for Mailer in this 1965 letter.
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. Mason, Madison, Wis.
|File:BillPowers SaturdayReview Page1.jpg|In his [[An American Dream Expanded/Definition of Selfhood|letter to the ''Saturday Review'']] (June 5, 1965), Bill Powers responds to criticism that ''An American Dream'' is a “literary hoax” and argues that through murder Rojack places himself “in the position to rebegin his life.”
}}
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== Articles ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Lewis Nichols In and Out of books.jpg|Lewis Nichols In and Out of Books
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly Currents, March 23, 1965

2019-04-24T23:37:08Z

Dillbug: response

{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, I posted the transcript of the Press Conference, but I am not sure about the format itself. The original obviously has a column system for the different sections, but is that necessary here? Tell me what you think and I'll adjust it accordingly. Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:45, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Looks good. I got on for a minute, but I have to go. I'll be back up around 130 & will look more closely. Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:48, 23 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Added ellipses and removed titles except for the From blah blah blah...following what Dr. Lucas's linked reference...watchu think? Nice work! That was a long piece!!!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:19, 23 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Looks great! Do you want me to work on others in that list you created? I can use more practice for sure but I don't want to hog from the list! :) [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:53, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Get the practice! There is plenty to do! Just my opinion. Careful linking off my list because I have learned the hard way how not to link off the subpage so I am learning how to move them. Just click on the link from the link on the photo in the gallery on the aaed page and you will be golden! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:56, 23 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|grlucas}} Please help with Displaytitle! Thanks!. ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:28, 23 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to |JVbird|Dillbug}} What do y'all think about the subheadings? If you look at the previous noted with adding ellipses you can compare. Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 13:30, 24 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} I think the page title needs to be changed — something like <code><nowiki>An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly Currents, March 23, 1965</nowiki></code>. Also, while I appreciate your transcribing the whole thing, only the parts that have to do with Mailer really should be done — including images. Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:30, 24 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Dmcgonagill|Jvbird|Grlucas}} I think I am going to have to agree with Dr. Lucas. Right now the sight looks a little overwhelming!. I suggest editing to only information relevant to Mailer.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 19:36, 24 April 2019 (EDT)

Talk:An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T23:33:35Z

Dillbug: response

{{reply to|Dillbug|grlucas|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Looks so funky to me with so much dead space...can we create an image gallery like on Apple Pages App...or what can we do?([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:39, 23 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill|Grlucas|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} I felt the same way. I tried to space out the paragraphs a little to no avail. Still looks 'funky'. I was wondering if we could only show the pages with Mailer's review and leave the other pages out. I am unfamiliar with Apple Pages App (age showing again)but if you think that would work, let's try it. I was going to ask Dr. Lucas what we should do, unless someone has a better idea.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:00, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} Added ellipses and moved pictures to both side. Like? Feels warmer to me. Thanks.([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:11, 24 April 2019 (EDT))

:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} I don't think you need '''all''' of the images — they don’t add much really. In fact, most of them should be cropped and inverted, so it's black on white. That said, if you want all of the images, use a simple gallery like on the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAE'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:35, 24 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} The images look much, much better and I love the addition of the ellipses (wish I had thought of that). Great work! Love it!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 19:33, 24 April 2019 (EDT)

An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T23:31:11Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965}}

{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=March 15, 1965 |title=Author's League Panel: Book Reviews and Reviewers|url= |work=Publisher's Weekly |location=New York, NY|page=44-45 |access-date=|ref=harv}}Excerpt from a panel discussion at the ''Authors League of America'' held on March 9, 1965, where Mailer airs his views on reviewers and in turn, reviewers cross-examine Mailer.}}

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 1.JPG|thumb|left]]
[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 2.JPG|thumb|right]]

Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 3.JPG|thumb|left]]

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 4.JPG|thumb|right]]
[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|thumb|left]]

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 6.JPG|thumb|right]]

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T23:29:15Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965}}

{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=March 15, 1965 |title=Author's League Panel: Book Reviews and Reviewers|url= |work=Publisher's Weekly |location=New York, NY|page=44-45 |access-date=|ref=harv}}Excerpt from a panel discussion at the ''Authors League of America'' held on March 9, 1965, where Mailer airs his views on reviewers and in turn, reviewers cross-examine Mailer.}}

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 1.JPG|thumb|left]]
[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 2.JPG|thumb|right]]

Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 3.JPG|thumb|left]]

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 4.JPG|thumb|right]]

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|thumb|left]]

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 6.JPG|thumb|right]]

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

[[File:Ellipsis.png|center|50px]]

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T16:25:02Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965}}

{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=March 15, 1965 |title=Author's League Panel: Book Reviews and Reviewers|url= |work=Publisher's Weekly |location=New York, NY|page=44-45 |access-date=|ref=harv}}Excerpt from a panel discussion at the ''Authors League of America'' held on March 9, 1965, where Mailer airs his views on reviewers and in turn, reviewers cross-examine Mailer.}}

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[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 6.JPG|thumb|left]]

Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T16:23:55Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965}}

{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=March 15, 1965 |title=Author's League Panel: Book Reviews and Reviewers|url= |work=Publisher's Weekly |location=New York, NY|page=44-45 |access-date=|ref=harv}}Excerpt from a panel discussion at the ''Authors League of America'' held on March 9, 1965, where Mailer airs his views on reviewers and in turn, reviewers cross-examine Mailer.}}
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[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 6.JPG|thumb|left]]

Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.
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“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-24T16:19:24Z

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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

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==Discussion==
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{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I edited the advertising copy for the gallery. Please take a look at the link and let me know if I am supposed to add the reviews that have been crossed out. I did not know how to cross through them once posted. [[An_American_Dream_Expanded/Advertising_Copy]] Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:20, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Nice work. I took out the third image, since it was only of a blank page. You needn't worry about the x-out items, unless you want. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:38, 24 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I transcribed the letter in my Trotter sandbox. Please review and advise on what to do for the illegible words. Thank you. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 12:32, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Could you give me a link, please? Thanks. —07:38, 24 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} Thank you for reviewing. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 10:52, 24 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas|Mango Masala}} I reviewed your Trotter letter at [[User:Mango_Masala/sandboxTrotter1965]] and I hope you don't mind that I made a few minor edits such as adding italics and links. I was able to read most of the words you had questions on with exception of one word. Flat could not make it out. Will have to ask Dr. Lucas if he can and make the edit. You did a really good job on the letter.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:18, 24 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
#<s>[[An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy|Advertising Copy]]</s> Dillbug will try to do
# <s>[[An American Dream Expanded/Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] </s>JVbird will do
# <s>[[''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]</s> I will do--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:28, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
# [[An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965|Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the transcipt for the Publishers Weekly Press Conference is up but I'm not sure about the format, since the original has columns. Are the columns necessary in the transcription? See what you think, please. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:51, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Here's how I created the example above: <code><nowiki>[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]</nowiki></code> off the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 09:10, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} Thanks, Dr. Lucas and Sherita, for the help. Working on these posts now and getting them set up correctly. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:53, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, one more question so I make sure I am doing this correctly. I transcribed the North American (Robert Dana) Review and created a sub page [[TheNorthAmericanReview/RobertDana]] My question is this. Should it stay as a subpage for now while I'm cleaning it up before I link it to the PM page itself and can you look at it quickly to make sure it's actually what the subpage should look like? Thanks! --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to| JVbird}} No, it should be a subpage of ''AAD'' Expanded, like my example above. I think this was fixed, and since it's a review, was moved to the bib — it's fun being a team, huh? 👍🏼 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:42, 24 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} I hope you don't mind, I added links and italics where needed to your article.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:43, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

User:Mango Masala/sandboxTrotter1965

2019-04-24T16:14:56Z

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{{byline|last=Trotter |first=William R.}}

1847 Cassamia Place
Charlotte
March 14, 1965

Ahem,

It has become the fashion for conservative book reviewers, as well as those all-too-numerous people who prefer their culture in neat, easily digested packages, to teh-teh loudly over every new book by ''[[Norman Mailer]]'' and say, with solemn tones of ponderous righteousness, "Why doesn't the poor bastard give up? Every body knows [[''NAKED AND THE DEAD'']] was the only good thing he'll ever write? And why must he go mucking-about trying to do messy things like existential political articles? They're so uncomfortable to read."

Fortunately for America's artistic consciousness, Mailer has refused to allow himself to quietly expire after writing one fine novel which won the approbation of all sorts of people and critics, and continues to write as he damn well pleases without caring how many people he makes uncomfortable. The trouble with American culture is that too many people like Dan Wallace consume its products. His snotty and condescending review in this Sunday's ''Observer'' is a prime example of what happens in our society when the "respectable" people gang-up on the visionary outlaw and conspire to pole-axe him every time he opens his mouth until he either becomes so rattled that he writes meaningless far-out drivel, or accepts their terms of surrender and writes neat, safe, impeccable little novels. Either way is artistic death for the artist, and cultural sedation for the timorous society that murders him.

Mailer is one of the few, incredibly few, writers or artists of any kind in our whole land who is willing to stake his reputation, his career, even his very sanity, on the once-revered principle that the artist is the standard-bearer, the vatic spokesman, the prophet...he is courageous enough to make an ass out of himself half the time, in order to say something important the other half. Mailer has more courage, more integrity, and more passion than any number of sweet, oh-so-precious writers like Salinger and Updike, who never show public concern over any issue. We live in a neurotic anti-emotional age, and our society prefers to hear truths or ideas whispered discreetly rather than shouted passionately. Anyone who commits himself publically with any degree of passion whatever, offends our sense of propriety. No, Mailer's style is not impeccable, nor are his ideas always profound- the ideas of Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Freud, Sartre, were not always profound either. Genius has rough edges- that means, you're likely to get splinters in your mind from contemplating what it has to say. Aren't those splinters nasty, though? Don't they make you uncomfortable? Oh, that's tooooo bad, here's the least Updike story in the ''New Yorker''- see the pretty metaphors? Aren't they glittery and spotless and impressive? See the new Salinger collection- aren't all those nice stories nice? Maybe they all do seem like an endless re-write of the same yearn, but they're all so cleverly literary!

Carp away, damn you all. Mailer will survive all the back-alley ambushes laid for him by people like Wallace and the reviewers of <big>????????</big>. In a literary world where most of the champions are featherweights with glass-jaws, it's a dangerous life being one of the few real pro heavyweights. Everything he publishes is important, and a novel with the daring and vigor of ''An American Dream'' cannot be dismissed with pathetic references to Ian Fleming (my Lord...) or accusations of pretension and bad taste. The bad taste lies not with a man like Mailer, but with the middle-brow public that consumes television and the books of Wouk, Michener and Harold Robbins. This nation has two choices, RIGHT NOW, (not twenty years from now): it can wake up and drop its frontiersman hatred of intellectual attainment and "kulcher' and be willing to dare, to live more vividly, to stop being afraid of sex, life, death or hell's very passions; or it can muddle through on its own momentum for perhaps another half-century before the rot sets in for good. The neo-Renaissance could happen here, or we could miss our trolley utterly. It's a hard job waking up 200 million consciousnesses, but Mailer and a few others are throwing buckets of ice water into our faces as hard as they can. If the doom comes, we'll have only our own bad tastes to blame.

In the beginning, Mister Wallace, Sartre's book were full of pretension, so.....

Yours sincerely,

William R. Trotter

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Talk:An American Dream Expanded

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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
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{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I edited the advertising copy for the gallery. Please take a look at the link and let me know if I am supposed to add the reviews that have been crossed out. I did not know how to cross through them once posted. [[An_American_Dream_Expanded/Advertising_Copy]] Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:20, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I transcribed the letter in my Trotter sandbox. Please review and advise on what to do for the illegible words. Thank you. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 12:32, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
#<s>[[An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy|Advertising Copy]]</s> Dillbug will try to do
# <s>[[An American Dream Expanded/Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] </s>JVbird will do
# <s>[[''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]</s> I will do--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:28, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
# [[An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965|Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the transcipt for the Publishers Weekly Press Conference is up but I'm not sure about the format, since the original has columns. Are the columns necessary in the transcription? See what you think, please. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:51, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Here's how I created the example above: <code><nowiki>[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]</nowiki></code> off the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 09:10, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} Thanks, Dr. Lucas and Sherita, for the help. Working on these posts now and getting them set up correctly. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:53, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, one more question so I make sure I am doing this correctly. I transcribed the North American (Robert Dana) Review and created a sub page [[TheNorthAmericanReview/RobertDana]] My question is this. Should it stay as a subpage for now while I'm cleaning it up before I link it to the PM page itself and can you look at it quickly to make sure it's actually what the subpage should look like? Thanks! --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} I hope you don't mind, I added links and italics where needed to your article.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:43, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

An American Dream Expanded/The Harbours of the Moon (Review)

2019-04-23T21:42:05Z

Dillbug: Added link

{{DISPLAYTITLE:The North American Review, Robert Dana}}
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Robert Dana
The North American Review July 1965
New Series Vol 2, no. 3
Old Series Vol 250

The Harbors of the Moon

''[[An American Dream]]''. [[Norman Mailer]]. Dial Press, New York. 1965. 270 pp. $4.95.

This review is late. And with cause.

Perhaps the proper place to read ''An American Dream'' is in a jet airliner at 37,000 feet. Anyhow, that’s where I began it (going east to D.C) and where I finished it (going west to Tacoma). One knew at the beginning that reviewing it would be a job; the kind of job one would rather not do.

Other reviewers would make it even tougher. Perhaps because the novel had been serialized in ''Esquire'' before the book was published, there was already a predatory scent on the air; the scent of animals prowling for a kill. Mailer invites such prowling, to be sure; he has always courted a bad press. Every year is “Jump-on-Norman-Year,” and one distrusts the seeming heedlessness of such a prey as much as the cats which stalk it. Finally, and most important, there was the novel itself: a violent, painfully probing work; its style a surreal combination of scalpel and bazooka.

In the end, one decided it would have to wait. Let other reviewers have their say. Studiously avoid reading them. Let the novel and one’s ideas and impressions of it ferment slowly in some earthy cellar at the back of the mind. Check the brew periodically to see if it had deepened, taken on body. Finally, chill and serve.

Mailer’s novel concerns the fantastic life of Stephen Richards Rojack. He is a war-hero (Italian campaign, WW II), an ex-congressman (contemporary with Jack Kennedy), an author-professor at a New York university, a TV personality, a “marginal socialite” by virtue of his marriage to heiress Deborah Kelly, and a man on the verge of madness. At the onset, one is inclined to discount the novel on the grounds that its leading figure is conceived without regard to reality, that he is a fairy-tale character. Maybe it’s the jet; maybe it’s the company aboard; maybe it’s the tendency of the novel to invite the reader to examine the number of different roles he plays in a single day; but one recognizes slowly that Rojack is a living, American reality: not a man for all seasons, but of many.

At this point, the final sentence in the opening paragraph of the novel leaps out at you, and the title begins to take on its proper and ominous significance. Not The but An. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lifetime exploring; the ironic difference between the idea (“a fresh, green breast of the new world”) which America once offered and the “lunar” reality of modern American life where success is corruption even for the strong an the lucky. Even the marriage of Rojack to Deborah Caughlin Mangaravidi Kelly suggests Fitzgerald. In the novel’s first paragraph Mailer seems to be making a public announcement of Fitzgerald when he has Rojack say of Deborah that “she would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz.” Both Deborah and Rojack are at the pinnacle of “success” when the novel begins. But in the process of this achievement, their marriage has collapsed; and Rojack has discovered that the American version of “success” includes personal and psychic failure, a condition rift with the voices of suicide and murder:

… Instinct was telling me to die.
. . . . . . . .
“You can’t die yet,” said the formal part of my brain, “you haven’t done your work.”
“Yes,” said the moon, “you haven’t done your work, but you’ve lived your life, and you are dead with it.”
Deborah, too, is a schizophrenic in her role. As a lover she is one thing, as a wife another:
… That was love with Deborah and it was separate from making love to Deborah. … When she felt love, she was formidable; making love she left you with no uncertain memory of having passed through a carnal transaction with a caged animal. … It was not just her odor. … There was something other. . .. something a calculating and full of guile as high finance, that was it—she smelled like a bank. …

In her role as “the Great Bitch.” It is Deborah who brings Rojack to the crucial action of the novel: her murder.

The murder itself is well-conceived: half-intentional, half-accidental. And its aftermath involves Rojack with a host of other important minor characters: Roberts and Leznicki, the police investigators; Ganucci, a Mafia boss; Shago Martin, a Negro entertainer; Cherry, the singer with whom Rojack discovers that “love was not a gift but a vow”; and finally, with his wife’s father, Barney Oswald Kelly, at the top of the Waldorf Towers.

None of these characters exists independently of any of the others as Mailer clichés tight the fabric of his American nightmare. The fantastic quality of the novel is made perfect when the reader discovers that Cherry has been the mistress of both Shago Martin and Barney Kelly, that Kelly controls Ganucci, that Roberts and Leznicki give over the investigation of Rojack because of pressure exerted by Kelly through government channels. The shock is at its deepest when we finally discover, in a twist that owes something to Fitzgerald’s ''Tender is the Night'', that the novel’s chain of sexual failure and corruption has its source in Kelly’s earlier incest with Deborah.

The import of these relationships is clear: none escapes the corruption of his dream and the small nastiness of capitulation.

Rojack is never punished for the murder of Deborah. The reader may even wonder whether a crime has been committed. For Deborah’s character and Rojack’s near-madness are mitigating factors. And where all is corruption, how is one to determine crime? These considerations will more than likely be ignored by those critics of the novel who have a tendency: in any case, to slap the label “Obscene” or “Immoral” on any work containing a seduction or a four-letter word. However, an apt comparison might be between An American Dream and that most moral of novels, ''Crime and Punishment''.

Indeed, there is ample evidence that Stephen Rojack has been living in a kind of Hell all along. Just prior to the showdown scenes with Barney Kelly at the Waldorf, Rojack describes the lobby as “A vision of Hell. …” And the Las Vegas to which he flees towards the end of the book is no different from the New York he has fled:

…as if you were in the pleasure chamber of an encampment on the moon. …You caught the odor of an empty space where something was dying alone. …The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric, and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. I was not good enough to climb up and pull them down. So I walked out into the desert where the mad before me had come. …

Who are the mad who have preceded Rojack into the desert? Traditionally, the desert suggests the place or penance, of contemplation, to which the prophets have gone and whence they came. Too, it suggests, by its conjunction to the “jeweled city” of pleasure, that ''An American Dream'' is a radically moral book, a jeremiad against those forces within and without man which foster his perversion and the corrosion of his ideals.

One quarrel with Mailer, if we wish to make one on legitimate grounds, must come, it seems to me, not with respect to the almost unrelieved pessimism of his view of American life; not with his style (for it is powerful, contemporary in the best sense, and never dull; perhaps the best in America at the moment); not with his conception of the character or the jaggedness of his plot; but with the weakness of the ending of the novel.

After what Rojack has gone through, and in view of what he is, it is simply not enough to pack him off in a car “to Guatemala and Yucatan.” For there is only the slightest suggestion of the meaning of Rojack’s action, and no suggestion at all of the significance of his destination. As it stands, ''An American Dream'' is Mailer’s best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', but it has neither a conclusion nor an ending.

Robert Dana

An American Dream Expanded/The Harbours of the Moon (Review)

2019-04-23T21:41:22Z

Dillbug: Added italics and links

{{DISPLAYTITLE:The North American Review, Robert Dana}}
[[File:Dana - North Am Review Page1.jpg|thumb|left]]
[[File:Dana - North Am Review Page2.jpg|thumb|left]]{{Aade-sm}}

Robert Dana
The North American Review July 1965
New Series Vol 2, no. 3
Old Series Vol 250

The Harbors of the Moon

''[[An American Dream]]''. Norman Mailer. Dial Press, New York. 1965. 270 pp. $4.95.

This review is late. And with cause.

Perhaps the proper place to read ''An American Dream'' is in a jet airliner at 37,000 feet. Anyhow, that’s where I began it (going east to D.C) and where I finished it (going west to Tacoma). One knew at the beginning that reviewing it would be a job; the kind of job one would rather not do.

Other reviewers would make it even tougher. Perhaps because the novel had been serialized in ''Esquire'' before the book was published, there was already a predatory scent on the air; the scent of animals prowling for a kill. Mailer invites such prowling, to be sure; he has always courted a bad press. Every year is “Jump-on-Norman-Year,” and one distrusts the seeming heedlessness of such a prey as much as the cats which stalk it. Finally, and most important, there was the novel itself: a violent, painfully probing work; its style a surreal combination of scalpel and bazooka.

In the end, one decided it would have to wait. Let other reviewers have their say. Studiously avoid reading them. Let the novel and one’s ideas and impressions of it ferment slowly in some earthy cellar at the back of the mind. Check the brew periodically to see if it had deepened, taken on body. Finally, chill and serve.

Mailer’s novel concerns the fantastic life of Stephen Richards Rojack. He is a war-hero (Italian campaign, WW II), an ex-congressman (contemporary with Jack Kennedy), an author-professor at a New York university, a TV personality, a “marginal socialite” by virtue of his marriage to heiress Deborah Kelly, and a man on the verge of madness. At the onset, one is inclined to discount the novel on the grounds that its leading figure is conceived without regard to reality, that he is a fairy-tale character. Maybe it’s the jet; maybe it’s the company aboard; maybe it’s the tendency of the novel to invite the reader to examine the number of different roles he plays in a single day; but one recognizes slowly that Rojack is a living, American reality: not a man for all seasons, but of many.

At this point, the final sentence in the opening paragraph of the novel leaps out at you, and the title begins to take on its proper and ominous significance. Not The but An. Scott Fitzgerald spent a lifetime exploring; the ironic difference between the idea (“a fresh, green breast of the new world”) which America once offered and the “lunar” reality of modern American life where success is corruption even for the strong an the lucky. Even the marriage of Rojack to Deborah Caughlin Mangaravidi Kelly suggests Fitzgerald. In the novel’s first paragraph Mailer seems to be making a public announcement of Fitzgerald when he has Rojack say of Deborah that “she would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz.” Both Deborah and Rojack are at the pinnacle of “success” when the novel begins. But in the process of this achievement, their marriage has collapsed; and Rojack has discovered that the American version of “success” includes personal and psychic failure, a condition rift with the voices of suicide and murder:

… Instinct was telling me to die.
. . . . . . . .
“You can’t die yet,” said the formal part of my brain, “you haven’t done your work.”
“Yes,” said the moon, “you haven’t done your work, but you’ve lived your life, and you are dead with it.”
Deborah, too, is a schizophrenic in her role. As a lover she is one thing, as a wife another:
… That was love with Deborah and it was separate from making love to Deborah. … When she felt love, she was formidable; making love she left you with no uncertain memory of having passed through a carnal transaction with a caged animal. … It was not just her odor. … There was something other. . .. something a calculating and full of guile as high finance, that was it—she smelled like a bank. …

In her role as “the Great Bitch.” It is Deborah who brings Rojack to the crucial action of the novel: her murder.

The murder itself is well-conceived: half-intentional, half-accidental. And its aftermath involves Rojack with a host of other important minor characters: Roberts and Leznicki, the police investigators; Ganucci, a Mafia boss; Shago Martin, a Negro entertainer; Cherry, the singer with whom Rojack discovers that “love was not a gift but a vow”; and finally, with his wife’s father, Barney Oswald Kelly, at the top of the Waldorf Towers.

None of these characters exists independently of any of the others as Mailer clichés tight the fabric of his American nightmare. The fantastic quality of the novel is made perfect when the reader discovers that Cherry has been the mistress of both Shago Martin and Barney Kelly, that Kelly controls Ganucci, that Roberts and Leznicki give over the investigation of Rojack because of pressure exerted by Kelly through government channels. The shock is at its deepest when we finally discover, in a twist that owes something to Fitzgerald’s ''Tender is the Night'', that the novel’s chain of sexual failure and corruption has its source in Kelly’s earlier incest with Deborah.

The import of these relationships is clear: none escapes the corruption of his dream and the small nastiness of capitulation.

Rojack is never punished for the murder of Deborah. The reader may even wonder whether a crime has been committed. For Deborah’s character and Rojack’s near-madness are mitigating factors. And where all is corruption, how is one to determine crime? These considerations will more than likely be ignored by those critics of the novel who have a tendency: in any case, to slap the label “Obscene” or “Immoral” on any work containing a seduction or a four-letter word. However, an apt comparison might be between An American Dream and that most moral of novels, ''Crime and Punishment''.

Indeed, there is ample evidence that Stephen Rojack has been living in a kind of Hell all along. Just prior to the showdown scenes with Barney Kelly at the Waldorf, Rojack describes the lobby as “A vision of Hell. …” And the Las Vegas to which he flees towards the end of the book is no different from the New York he has fled:

…as if you were in the pleasure chamber of an encampment on the moon. …You caught the odor of an empty space where something was dying alone. …The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric, and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. I was not good enough to climb up and pull them down. So I walked out into the desert where the mad before me had come. …

Who are the mad who have preceded Rojack into the desert? Traditionally, the desert suggests the place or penance, of contemplation, to which the prophets have gone and whence they came. Too, it suggests, by its conjunction to the “jeweled city” of pleasure, that ''An American Dream'' is a radically moral book, a jeremiad against those forces within and without man which foster his perversion and the corrosion of his ideals.

One quarrel with Mailer, if we wish to make one on legitimate grounds, must come, it seems to me, not with respect to the almost unrelieved pessimism of his view of American life; not with his style (for it is powerful, contemporary in the best sense, and never dull; perhaps the best in America at the moment); not with his conception of the character or the jaggedness of his plot; but with the weakness of the ending of the novel.

After what Rojack has gone through, and in view of what he is, it is simply not enough to pack him off in a car “to Guatemala and Yucatan.” For there is only the slightest suggestion of the meaning of Rojack’s action, and no suggestion at all of the significance of his destination. As it stands, ''An American Dream'' is Mailer’s best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'', but it has neither a conclusion nor an ending.

Robert Dana

An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.
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“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “''[[The Naked and the Dead]]'' changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.
{{aade-sm}}
“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”</br>

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=March 15, 1965 |title=Author's League Panel: Book Reviews and Reviewers|url= |work=Publisher's Weekly |location=New York, NY|page=44-45 |access-date=|ref=harv}}Excerpt from a panel discussion at the ''Authors League of America'' held on March 9, 1965, where Mailer airs his views on reviewers and in turn, reviewers cross-examine Mailer.}}
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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

{{aade-sm}}
“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”</br>

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

{{aade-sm}}
“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”</br>

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “For years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

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“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”</br>

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “For years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had Go’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. "The moral nihilists’ wing," to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

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“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”</br>

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. The “moral nihilists,’ wing” to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”

Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”

''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”

What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes, said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had God’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. The “moral nihilists,’ wing” to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”
Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”
''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”
What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “Four years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had Go’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. The “moral nihilists,’ wing” to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”
Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”
''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”
What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
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{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I edited the advertising copy for the gallery. Please take a look at the link and let me know if I am supposed to add the reviews that have been crossed out. I did not know how to cross through them once posted. [[An_American_Dream_Expanded/Advertising_Copy]] Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:20, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I transcribed the letter in my Trotter sandbox. Please review and advise on what to do for the illegible words. Thank you. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 12:32, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
#<s>[[An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy|Advertising Copy]]</s> Dillbug will try to do
# <s>[[An American Dream Expanded/Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] </s>JVbird will do
# <s>[[''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]</s> I will do--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:28, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
# [[An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965|Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the transcipt for the Publishers Weekly Press Conference is up but I'm not sure about the format, since the original has columns. Are the columns necessary in the transcription? See what you think, please. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:51, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Here's how I created the example above: <code><nowiki>[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]</nowiki></code> off the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 09:10, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} Thanks, Dr. Lucas and Sherita, for the help. Working on these posts now and getting them set up correctly. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:53, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, one more question so I make sure I am doing this correctly. I transcribed the North American (Robert Dana) Review and created a sub page [[TheNorthAmericanReview/RobertDana]] My question is this. Should it stay as a subpage for now while I'm cleaning it up before I link it to the PM page itself and can you look at it quickly to make sure it's actually what the subpage should look like? Thanks! --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965}}

{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=March 15, 1965 |title=Author's League Panel: Book Reviews and Reviewers|url= |work=Publisher's Weekly |location=New York, NY|page=44-45 |access-date=|ref=harv}}Excerpt from a panel discussion at the ''Authors League of America'' held on March 9, 1965, where Mailer airs his views on reviewers and in turn, reviewers cross-examine Mailer.}}

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “For years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had Go’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. The “moral nihilists,’ wing” to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”
Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”
''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”
What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

2019-04-23T17:39:09Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965}}

{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=March 15, 1965 |title=Author's League Panel: Book Reviews and Reviewers|url= |work=Publisher's Weekly |location=New York, NY|page=44-45 |access-date=|ref=harv}}Excerpt from a panel discussion at the ''Authors League of America'' held on March 9, 1965, where Mailer airs his views on reviewers and in turn, reviewers cross-examine Mailer.}}
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[[File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 6.JPG|thumb|left]]{{aade-sm}}

Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “For years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had Go’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. The “moral nihilists,’ wing” to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”
Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”
''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”
What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-23T17:28:17Z

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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
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{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I edited the advertising copy for the gallery. Please take a look at the link and let me know if I am supposed to add the reviews that have been crossed out. I did not know how to cross through them once posted. [[An_American_Dream_Expanded/Advertising_Copy]] Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:20, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I transcribed the letter in my Trotter sandbox. Please review and advise on what to do for the illegible words. Thank you. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 12:32, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
#<s>[[Advertising Copy]]</s> Dillbug will try to do
# <s>[[Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] </s>JVbird will do
# [[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]] I will do--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 13:28, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
# [[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the transcipt for the Publishers Weekly Press Conference is up but I'm not sure about the format, since the original has columns. Are the columns necessary in the transcription? See what you think, please. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:51, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Here's how I created the example above: <code><nowiki>[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]</nowiki></code> off the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 09:10, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} Thanks, Dr. Lucas and Sherita, for the help. Working on these posts now and getting them set up correctly. --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 12:53, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, one more question so I make sure I am doing this correctly. I transcribed the North American (Robert Dana) Review and created a sub page [[TheNorthAmericanReview/RobertDana]] My question is this. Should it stay as a subpage for now while I'm cleaning it up before I link it to the PM page itself and can you look at it quickly to make sure it's actually what the subpage should look like? Thanks! --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

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Mailer, whose first novel in nine years, ''[[An American Dream]]'' was published by ''Dial Press'', on March 15, opened the final portion of the March 10 press conference for authors by saying, candidly, “For years’ ago my life went out of control for a time. Once you become notorious your personality takes on a legendary quality. I am more and more surprised by what I am supposed to have done in the last two years.”
Yes said Mr. Mailer, it was quite true that in the past he had hurled obscenities at a lecture audience__”I thought I had Go’s message at the time”__but, looking back, “I regret it.” He said.

Mr. Mailer was asked to comment on the ''National Book Awards'' acceptance speech of novelist Saul Bellow in which Mr. Bellow said, among other things, that “polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art.” He had only heard about the Bellow speech second hand. Mr. Mailer said, but he thought he would probably disagree with it entirely. The “moral nihilists,’ wing” to which he supposed Bellow would assign him, Mr. Mailer said, would probably also include William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Terry Southern, among others, and “we are the ones who are doing something new, more creative and adventurous.” Whether or not the surface actions of moral nihilists are negative is “irrelevant,” Mr. Mailer said. What is important is that “they are concerned with the forefront of experience.”

Mr. Mailer was not loath to give his opinion of the NBA-winner, “Herzog,” as a novel or Saul Bellow as a writer, however. And what he had to say (page 30) demonstrated neatly the Mailer Dictum that “novelists left to themselves almost always welcome vicious gossip-mongers, so the only alternative is to air your differences publicly and ventilate the air.”

Asked to define what he meant by “moral nihilism,” Mr. Mailer said that the secret belief of all moral nihilists is that they can save the world. The moral nihilist believes that the moral attitudes with which most people regard existence are not so much false as that they do not fit reality. There are occasions, Mr. Mailer said, when in the view of the moral nihilist, obscenity can be brutal, shattering, cruel. There are also occasions when it can be warm, humorous, life-giving, boisterous. It can never be codified. For the moral nihilist, who wishes never to take anything for granted, the nature of reality is constantly shifting.

“I believe there is a God and a devil.” Mr. Mailer said. “Morality is the battlefield. But the criminal in the act of committing a crime may be becoming a better man. The alternative to a sudden wild outburst of violence might be that he would have been running around poisoning the lives of all around him for 20 or 30 years. For the moral nihilist there is something worse than death.

In his own writing, Norman Mailer said, eh tries never to introduce an abstract idea unless it is necessary. “Any intellectual discussion you can take out, should be taken out.” He suggested as a working principle that a novelist should never put into his work what any other novelist would write.

Mr. Mailer, talking about ''An American Dream,'' said that while it was substantially complete as originally written for ''Esquire'' in a series of monthly installments, adding up to eight chapters, he had worked on it extensive for style “and toning” before its publication in book form and “I really think it is a better book now.”
Asked the central, driving influence that kept him working on such a tight schedule that he had to finish the novel in a year or less, Mr. Mailer said, “professionalism.” He said he had wanted to try his hand at producing a novel under such pressure, “but if I had to follow such a schedule for five years it would kill me.”
''An American Dream,'' Mr. Mailer said, seemed to write itself extremely naturally. “A book is prepared in one’s unconscious. The words (call them troops) start marching through your body. If you go out and get drunk one night the troops get bombed and you run into a writer’s block. When your’re working steadily this will not happen.”
What effect has success had on him? Mr. Mailer was asked “A big hit changes your life altogether. You become a different person.” He answered. “The Naked and the Dead changed all my reflexes. Before that I had the value judgments of an infantry-man. Once you have a lot of success you spend an awful lot of time with the officers. As James Jones once said to me, “God damn it, Norman, I’m becoming an officer.”

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Talk:An American Dream Expanded

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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
. . .
{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I edited the advertising copy for the gallery. Please take a look at the link and let me know if I am supposed to add the reviews that have been crossed out. I did not know how to cross through them once posted. [[An_American_Dream_Expanded/Advertising_Copy]] Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:20, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
#<s>[[Advertising Copy]]</s> Dillbug will try to do
# [[Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] JVbird will do
# [[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]
# [[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Here's how I created the example above: <code><nowiki>[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]</nowiki></code> off the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 09:10, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-23T16:20:55Z

Dillbug: /* Discussion */ response to Grlucas

Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

{{to do|2}}

==Discussion==
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{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I edited the advertising copy for the gallery. Please take a look at the link and let me know if I am supposed to add the reviews that have been crossed out. I did not know how to cross through them once posted. [[An_American_Dream_Expanded/Advertising_Copy]] Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:20, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Advertising Copy]] Dillbug will try to do
# [[Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] JVbird will do
# [[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]
# [[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Here's how I created the example above: <code><nowiki>[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]</nowiki></code> off the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 09:10, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

An American Dream Expanded

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{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
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|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650316 1.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy|Advertising Copy]] for the ''New York Times'', March 15, 1965
|File:19650322.1.jpg|[[An American Dream Expanded/Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]]
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 1.JPG|[[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |[[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]]
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|[[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]]
|File:Huffman - Jungian Approach (1).jpg|An outline for James Huffman's presentation on ''An American Dream'' at the American Culture Association's Popular Culture Conference, April 25-28, 1979.
|File:19650514 Envelope.jpg|Envelope
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
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|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|''Harper’s'' plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism.
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine states that “the only first-rate novelist is Norman Mailer” publishing in 1965.
|File:19650130.jpg|Tom Wolfe’s review of ''AAD'' is mentioned in ''Book Week'' on March 14, 1965.
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==Letters==
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|File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft offers her strong support for Mailer in this 1965 letter.
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== Reviews ==
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|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
|File:Dana - North Am Review Page1.jpg|Robert Dana's review of ''An American Dream'', published July 1965 in ''The North American Review'', declares the novel to be Mailer's "best and most powerful novel since ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]''" despite what Dana sees as a poor conclusion and a lack of meaning in the main character's actions.
|File:Dana - North Am Review Page2.jpg|Robert Dana,''The North American Review'' July 1965, page 2.
|File:Lewis Nichols In and Out of books.jpg|Lewis Nichols In and Out of Books
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
|File:BillPowers SaturdayReview Page1.jpg|In his letter to the Book Review Editor at the ''Saturday Review'', dated June 5, 1965, Bill Powers responds to criticism that ''An American Dream'' is a "literary hoax" and argues that through murder Rojack places himself "in the position to rebegin his life."
|File:BillPowers SaturdayReview Page2.jpg|Bill Powers, Saturday Review, Page 2.
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An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy

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From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the ''New York Times''.

[[Norman Mailer|Mailer's]] triumph!

THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience.
{{cquote|It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination…It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense…It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself…But even more importantly, ''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what Mailer is now suddenly able to do with words.And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation.|author=John W. Aldridge|source=''Life''}}
{{cquote|I think Mailer is one of the few really interesting writers anywhere….''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' beats with the pulse of some huge night carnivore…It tells a sometimes bizarre, always violent, absolutely contemporary story of evil, death, and strange hope. Reading it is like flying an airplane with the instruments cross-wired. I’ll remember it for a long time… Mailer manhandles the reader right through the plate glass into the center of the event…His characters are semblances of our times more true than most…. Malcom Lowry once said that the only writers who count are the ones who burn. Mailer burns.”|author=Conrad Knickerbocker|source=''New York Times” Book Review}}

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{{cquote|''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is Mailer’s most remarkable achievement…Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration…It centers on a domestic crime-which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political…It is an American Dream as Oedipus the King is a Greek dream…a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams… Thought the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The encounters take place on the brink…the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary almost unbearable immediacy. |author=Paul Pickrel|source=”Harper’s”}}
{{cquote|(Here) are the scenes of rare fictional quality one has come to expect from Mailer’s vision: the malevolent lilt of the Negro’ crooner’s colloquy; Rojack’s confrontation of the mob in Tony’s joint; his tender scenes with Cherry; the clarity and drive of the police station scenes; the father-in-law’s immeasurable evil monologue’ and a lyric, loving scene—heralding a mellower Mailer—between Rojack and his stepdaughter, Deirdre… Mailer throws everything into his Saturnalian cathartic…to trouble all who are cloyed as Rojack and Mailer are by the sweet, sick-narcotic of 20th century life.|source=”Newsweek”}}

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An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy

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From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the ''New York Times''.

[[Norman Mailer|Mailer's]] triumph!

THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience.
{{cquote|It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination…It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense…It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself…But even more importantly, ''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what Mailer is now suddenly able to do with words.And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation.|author=John W. Aldridge|source=''Life''}}
{{cquote|I think Mailer is one of the few really interesting writers anywhere….''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' beats with the pulse of some huge night carnivore…It tells a sometimes bizarre, always violent, absolutely contemporary story of evil, death, and strange hope. Reading it is like flying an airplane with the instruments cross-wired. I’ll remember it for a long time… Mailer manhandles the reader right through the plate glass into the center of the event…His characters are semblances of our times more true than most…. Malcom Lowry once said that the only writers who count are the ones who burn. Mailer burns.”|author=Conrad Knickerbocker|source=''New York Times” Book Review}}

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{{cquote|''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is Mailer’s most remarkable achievement…Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration…It centers on a domestic crime-which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political…It is an American Dream as Oedipus the King is a Greek dream…a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams… Thought the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The encounters take place on the brink…the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary almost unbearable immediacy. |author=Paul Pickrel|source=”Harper’s”}}
{{cquote|(Here) are the scenes of rare fictional quality one has come to expect from ''Mailer’s'' vision: the malevolent lilt of the Negro’ crooner’s colloquy; Rojack’s confrontation of the mob in Tony’s joint; his tender scenes with Cherry; the clarity and drive of the police station scenes; the father-in-law’s immeasurable evil monologue’ and a lyric, loving scene—heralding a mellower Mailer—between Rojack and his stepdaughter, Deirdre… Mailer throws everything into his Saturnalian cathartic…to trouble all who are cloyed as Rojack and Mailer are by the sweet, sick-narcotic of 20th century life.|source=”Newsweek”}}

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From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the ''New York Times''.

[[Norman Mailer|Mailer's]] triumph!

THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience.
{{cquote|It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination…It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense…It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself…But even more importantly, ''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what ''Mailer'' is now suddenly able to do with words.And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation.|author=John W. Aldridge|source=''Life''}}
{{cquote|I think ''Mailer'' is one of the few really interesting writers anywhere….''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' beats with the pulse of some huge night carnivore…It tells a sometimes bizarre, always violent, absolutely contemporary story of evil, death, and strange hope. Reading it is like flying an airplane with the instruments cross-wired. I’ll remember it for a long time…''Mailer'' manhandles the reader right through the plate glass into the center of the event…His characters are semblances of our times more true than most…. Malcom Lowry once said that the only writers who count are the ones who burn. ''Mailer'' burns.”|author=Conrad Knickerbocker|source=''New York Times” Book Review}}

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{{cquote|''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is ''Mailer''’s most remarkable achievement…Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration…It centers on a domestic crime-which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political…It is an American Dream as Oedipus the King is a Greek dream…a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams… Thought the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The encounters take place on the brink…the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary almost unbearable immediacy. |author=Paul Pickrel|source=”Harper’s”}}
{{cquote|(Here) are the scenes of rare fictional quality one has come to expect from ''Mailer’s'' vision: the malevolent lilt of the Negro’ crooner’s colloquy; Rojack’s confrontation of the mob in Tony’s joint; his tender scenes with Cherry; the clarity and drive of the police station scenes; the father-in-law’s immeasurable evil monologue’ and a lyric, loving scene—heralding a mellower ''Mailer''—between Rojack and his stepdaughter, Deirdre… ''Mailer'' throws everything into his Saturnalian cathartic…to trouble all who are cloyed as Rojack and ''Mailer'' are by the sweet, sick-narcotic of 20th century life.|source=”Newsweek”}}

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From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the ''New York Times''.

[[Norman Mailer|Mailer's]] triumph!

THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience.
{{cquote|It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination…It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense…It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself…But even more importantly, ''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what ''Mailer'' is now suddenly able to do with words.And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation.|author=John W. Aldridge|source=''Life''}}
{{cquote|I think ''Mailer'' is one of the few really interesting writers anywhere….''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' beats with the pulse of some huge night carnivore…It tells a sometimes bizarre, always violent, absolutely contemporary story of evil, death, and strange hope. Reading it is like flying an airplane with the instruments cross-wired. I’ll remember it for a long time…''Mailer'' manhandles the reader right through the plate glass into the center of the event…His characters are semblances of our times more true than most…. Malcom Lowry once said that the only writers who count are the ones who burn. ''Mailer'' burns.”|author=Conrad Knickerbocker|source=''New York Times” Book Review}}

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{{cquote|''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is ''Mailer''’s most remarkable achievement…Like an ancient tragedy it is a work of fierce concentration…It centers on a domestic crime-which is also dynastic, a crime of passion which is also political…It is an American Dream as Oedipus the King is a Greek dream…a dramatization of those possibilities in ourselves that we starve to shadows in our waking hours and that return to raven us in our dreams… Thought the idiom of the novel is perfectly, and often brilliantly, realistic, the atmosphere is mythic. The encounters take place on the brink…the states of mind are extreme, rendered with an extraordinary almost unbearable immediacy. |author=Paul Pickrel|source=”Harper’s” }}
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From: Sussman & Sugar Inc., March 15, 1965. Advertising copy for the ''New York Times''.

[[Norman Mailer|Mailer's]] triumph!

THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL

''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience.

{{cquote|It may well represent the first significant step the current American novel has taken into fresh territories of the imagination…}}
{{cquote|It can be recognized as a novel of the most advanced kind, a devil’s encyclopedia of our secret visions and desires, an American dream or nightmare in a very exact sense…}}
{{cquote|It dramatizes the various ways in which a man may sin in order to be saved, become holy as well as whole by restoring the primitive psychic circuits that enable him to live in harmony with himself…}}
{{cquote|But even more importantly, ''AN AMERICAN DREAM'' is the expression of a devastatingly alive and original creative mind…There seems to be no limit to what ''Mailer'' is now suddenly able to do with words.}}
{{cquote|And he has managed through that idiom to create an image of our time which will undoubtedly stand as authoritative for this generation.}}
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Welcome to the digital Humanities project, ''AAD'' Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

==Purview==
This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to [[Norman Mailer]]’s novel ''[[An American Dream]]''. It will begin with [[J. Michael Lennon]]’s 2004 ''Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969''. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

==Access==
Participation requires:

# '''An account on Project Mailer'''. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, [[Gerald R. Lucas]]. [[grl:Contact|Send him an email]] requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
# '''Access to original documents'''. Original documents are stored on [https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GGktIf5f9wvHRjf-uKi2oCQkWAP1S5d0?usp=sharing Google Drive]. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

==To Do==
See the to-do list on the talk page for ''[[AAD:Letters|Norman Mailer's Letters on ''An American Dream'', 1963–1969]]''.

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==Discussion==
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{{reply to|grlucas}} Link to my PM Sandbox. Please give feedback when you can and let me know if I have linked this to the wrong location. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox|Dmcgonagill/sandbox for PM]]([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:43, 30 March 2019 (UTC))
::{{reply to|grlucas}} My article is ready to be moved from my sandbox to PM. Am I supposed to move it or are you supposed to review it and then move it?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 17:53, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
:::{{reply to| Dillbug}} OK, looking good, but it's not quite ready. All citations should be formatted correctly using the citation templates for whatever it is you're citing, like a [[Template:Cite_book|book]] or [[w:Template:Cite_journal|journal article]]. Simply cut and paste the template and fill in the info for each reference (many can already be found on the site's [[Criticism|crit bibliography]]). Use [[Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream|McKinley's article]] as a guide. The notice up top does not really make sense, either. Next, you need to convert all parenthetical citations to [[Template:Sfn|shortened footnotes]]. Again, use the McKinley article for your reference. I'll do one or two for you as an example. Finally, I see some typos. Be sure you proof it well. Thanks. (I fixed the beginning for you and gave you some examples to work with.) —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 21:25, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, I tried to add two articles from the Misc. drive and am having issues with getting the image. I am going to continue to try and add the images.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:28, 10 April 2019 (UTC)

{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have attempted to post a review, an article to the Gallery, and a Snippet. Please advise if I have done so correctly. I would like to do more but do not want to until I am sure I am on the right track.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:57, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Looking good. I cleaned up the language a bit. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} Please take a look at the news paper review by William F. Buckley, Jr. at [[User:Dillbug/sandbox.review#Sort_of_Conservative]] and see if the review is ready to be moved to the main page. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:22, 16 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to| Dillbug}} Check spelling of his name. Mailer should only be linked once — usually the first time he is mentioned. Otherwise, proofread and it looks good. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have made the necessary corrections. I do believe, the article is now ready to be moved. Do you want me to try to move it, or will you?--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 11:59, 17 April 2019 (EDT)

{{reply to |grlucas}} Feeling ready to post this review or edit with further direction or model from you on desired formatting. Please take a look and advise. Thanks! [[User:Dmcgonagill/sandbox/review]] ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 12:01, 17 April 2019 (EDT))

{{reply to |grlucas}} I uploaded envelope from misc folder but due to lack of access to a pdf convertor, it stays in that form and appears to be of little value on Wiki. Searched internet for work arounds but found nothing. I'm leaving upload but not adding it to gallery. Please advise. Thanks! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:51, 17 April 2019 (EDT))
:{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Yes, that's right. I would have to install the PDF viewer here. Do you think I should? —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 19:52, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|grlucas}} Yes, please. Increased group contribution would result. Thank you! ~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:07, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} OK, but give me a bit of time. I'll get to is ASAP. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:42, 18 April 2019 (EDT)

== ''MR'' Articles for this Project ==

These are available in the shared Google drive under ''Mailer Review''.
* Vol 3: Laist: “''An American Dream'': American Existentialism”
* Vol 5: Sermeus: “Norman Mailer’s Mythmaking in ''An American Dream'' and ‘The White’”
* Vol 6: McKinley: “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in ''An American Dream''”
* Vol 7: Batchelor: “Visions of the American Dream: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, and Norman Mailer Probe at the Heart of the National Idea”

== Press ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} We might be getting some press about our recent contributions to this project. As you know, Project Mailer is an official site of the Norman Mailer Society, so what we do here is important. Mailer’s biographer [[JML|Mike Lennon]] has expressed his appreciation for our efforts and others have shown interest in writing about our project! I just wanted to let you know. I’m putting together a press release about what we’ve accomplished this semester, so be sure we’re finishing up with our best, most conscientious work. Your efforts, as always, are very much appreciated. Thanks for all the hard work and congratulations for a great showing! Let me know below if there's anything you think I should add to the press release. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 20:45, 17 April 2019 (EDT)
: {{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent news! -[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] (User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:53, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
: {{reply to|grlucas}} Sweet! Mention of quick turn around from beginner to able to contribute to project would be cool. It's pretty amazing the progress.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:10, 18 April 2019 (EDT))
::{{reply to| Dmcgonagill}} Indeed, I had planned to mention just that. I’m going to write something for the credits page, too. They may be the same thing. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:33, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}}Wow! I did not realize others would be able to view our work, or even appreciate it. I have so enjoyed these past two weeks, now that I have a better understanding of how to edit in Wikipedia. I am truly going to miss editing Norman Mailer!(I would have never thought I would say such a thing a couple of weeks ago.) This class is so different from any class I have taken in the past and the best part, is your assignments are real world work, where what you do makes a difference. I feel a very real sense of accomplishment. Thank you Dr. Lucas for allowing me to be a part of PM.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 12:08, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to| Dillbug}} Awesome! You all should feel a sense of accomplishment. Everyone has grown so much in just a few short weeks. I'm proud of all the work we've accomplished. You all should be proud of yourselves, too. And who says you have to stop when the semester ends? I hope you all keep editing, especially on Wikipedia. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:00, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Excellent News. Happy to see our work is real world experience. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 12:54, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Cool beans. Congrats, all. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 18:41, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} That's very exciting. Everyone should be well chuffed. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 13:19, 19 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Additions ==

All, longer gallery additions should probably have their own pages — like the Buckley review; the long ad that lists excerpts from reviews would also be a good candidate for its own page. We could mostly just make them subpages of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]]. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:51, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all these text-heavy additions '''should''' have their own pages. Here's an example: [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews]]. I appreciate Dillbug’s enthusiasm here. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 17:48, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
{{reply to|Grlucas}} I have rewritten Book Week article 19650130. It is in my [[User:Dillbug/sandbox_BookWeek|sandbox]]. Please review to see if ready to repost. Thank you.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 20:38, 18 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Dillbug}} You probably should just concentrate on the part of the page that has to do with Mailer. It's only a small section. --[[User:Jules Carry|Jules Carry]] ([[User talk:Jules Carry|talk]]) 13:26, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{Reply to|Jules Carry}}Thank you for the feedback. I edited the picture under the gallery to reflect the changes.--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 18:02, 20 April 2019 (EDT)

== PDFs ==

All, I have tried to install the PDF handler extension for MediaWiki, but my hosting service is missing a crucial piece of software. I'm going to see if they can help, but I would suggest we continue as if we will '''not be able to get PDFs to embed'''. Sorry about that. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 16:23, 19 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas|waebo|Dmcgonagill|Mango Masala}} I am back online, finally, after the storms, and am able to convert one page PDFs to JPGs. Is there a trick to dealing with a multi-page PDF? Every time I try to convert to a JPG, I get separate files instead of one scrolling picture, like the PDF has. Any ideas, anyone? I'm going to try more tomorrow and work on editing as well-[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 19:16, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} I know little about it - sorry. I'm trying to sort out why the left side of the letter I added is missing. It appears correctly when you click the image, but not when viewing on main page. It appeared correctly in my sandbox. [[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 19:33, 20 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} Isn't that frustrating! I know things like that leave me scratching my head and make me just want to hit some chocolate and do some stress eating! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 09:56, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Mango Masala}} You did not follow the formatting for the gallery. I fixed it. 😁 —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 10:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I see. Thank you for correcting.[[User:Mango Masala|Mango Masala]] ([[User talk:Mango Masala|talk]]) 11:46, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
== Gallery Clean-Up ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} OK, all, the gallery is starting to look a bit crowded. Let's clean it up by:
# getting rid of multi-page images. Link to another page where you can display all the images and a transcript.
# transcribing all longer pieces on their own subpages. (For a guide: see how the Buckley review is done.)
# filing images in their correct sections.

Thanks! —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 11:02, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|Grlucas}} Will do. Working on editing letters right now and then will move over to the gallery... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 10:11:14, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I will begin cleaning my submissions up next week and transcribe the longer pieces on their own subpages. I am unclear on what you mean by "filing images in their correct sections". Which ones are filed in the wrong place? Oh, hope you have a very Happy Easter!--[[User:Dillbug|Dillbug]] ([[User talk:Dillbug|talk]]) 16:25, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I noticed that there's already an early mock up of the cover, so is the Mock up that I posted a repeat of that mock up? It was on the to do list, but I'll take it off if it's just a repeat. Going to have to work on the multi-page images. They're giving me trouble, but will figure them out... [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 16:49, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to| JVbird}} Yes, that mock up image has been posted already. As for multiple-page images: why not just post the first page in the gallery and others on the subpage? {{reply to| Dillbug}} I have already moved some items into other sections. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 07:31, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'll take the mock up image down and then fix the multiple-page images. Will be later today, though. [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 07:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
::::{{reply to|Grlucas}} I'm also working on figuring out how to update my multipage images.[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 16:57, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
:::::{{reply to|Grlucas|Sherita Sims-Jones}} I also posted some JPGs with multipage images, so I'm going to have to get mine corrected as well. That will have to be tomorrow, though, it looks like. = I have class tonight with my online students and it's been a long day. Sherita, if you figure it out, let me know. I thought I had had a breakthrough with the JPG files, but the multipage idea I had just isn't the solution! [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 17:45, 21 April 2019 (EDT)
::::::{{Reply to|Grlucas}} Dr. Lucas, can you check that what I have done with the Saturday Review and North American Review posts is what you mean? I separated the images and posted both as individual pages. Thanks, Josef [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 13:54, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to |grlucas}} Example of your #2 request somewhere? & never heard back about my Didion work...Good? No? Suggestions? Thanks.~~([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 09:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
{{reply to|Dillbug|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} Friends, Part 1 of directive 1 above complete (Think I did it right!). Please check me. And, need help on adding corresponding transcripts. See links below for claiming & easy access if you are on board with what I started. (I used [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|"Major Reviews for a Major Novel"]]) as a model: ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 14:42, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Advertising Copy]] Dillbug will try to do
# [[Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965]] JVbird will do
# [[''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]]
# [[Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] - ([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:33, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] ssimsjones will do[[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:55, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Hey, Dana. I'll take the Publishers Weekly Press Conference and will be glad to do anything else as well. Just let me know. I'll go in and check what you did, but that won't happen until tonight. If you get a chance, can you check me on the way I've done the multi-page reviews? I'm still not sure I'm doing it right (North American Review, for example). [[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 14:51, 22 April 2019 (EDT)
:{{reply to|JVbird}} Where is your work at? Send me link and I'll definitely check it out! Thanks!([[User:Dmcgonagill|Dmcgonagill]] ([[User talk:Dmcgonagill|talk]]) 15:29, 22 April 2019 (EDT))
:::{{reply to|Dmcgonagill}} Dana, the multi-pages look great. Thank You very much. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 18:57, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

== Gallery Clean-up 2 ==

{{reply to|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JVbird|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} All, thanks for all the work. Please use [[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]] as a guide to posting your gallery stuff. Just posting images will not suffice; there should be a transcript on a separate subpage. They should be subpages, as I mentioned, of [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]], too: just look at the model above. Thanks. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 18:05, 22 April 2019 (EDT)

:{{reply to|Grlucas|Dillbug|Dmcgonagill|JenniferMGA|Mango Masala|Namir Riptide|Roger C. Byrd|Sherita Sims-Jones|Waebo}} This is where I am stumped. I've gone to the Wiki page for creating a subpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#User_pages_and_user_space but I am just not getting how to create the subpage. I went to the Major Reviews for a Major Novel and I see what it is doing, that the image has a link to a separate page with the image and the transcript, and I want to be able to do that. I'm missing the steps for doing it, though. Does that make sense? Josef --[[User:JVbird|JVbird]] ([[User talk:JVbird|talk]]) 08:27, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

::{{reply to|JVbird}} I sent you an email that should help you create it. [[User:Sherita Sims-Jones|Sherita Sims-Jones]] ([[User talk:Sherita Sims-Jones|talk]]) 09:07, 23 April 2019 (EDT)
::{{reply to|JVbird}} Here's how I created the example above: <code><nowiki>[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]</nowiki></code> off the [[An American Dream Expanded|''AAD'' Expanded]] page. —[[User:Grlucas|Grlucas]] ([[User talk:Grlucas|talk]]) 09:10, 23 April 2019 (EDT)

Talk:An American Dream Expanded

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An American Dream Expanded

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
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{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14, 1965 issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
}}
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
}}
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== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:NYT AAD Ad-2.jpg|“[[An American Dream Expanded/Major Reviews for a Major Novel|Major Reviews for a Major Novel]]” in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer's ''[[An American Dream]]'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14th issue of ''BOOK WEEK'' by Tom Wolfe
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine-Coming Up Fiction
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
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==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
}}
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== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[There's Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965)
}}
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Dillbug: /* Gallery Additions */ Respond to Grlucas

An American Dream Expanded

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded}}
{{Aad-tabs}}

{{notice|This project is coming in the spring of 2019. If you’d like to contribute, see the [[Talk:An American Dream Expanded|discussion page]]. }}

[[File:65-7c.jpg|thumb|Dust wrapper of the British edition published by Andre Deutsch on 26 April, 1965.]]
{{cquote|''An American Dream'' is Norman Mailer’s first novel in nine years. He wrote it at a high pitch, each chapter appearing in ''Esquire'' while he was still at work on the next: a method now unusual but common enough among the great novelists of the nineteenth century, which contributed much to the quivering tension of the story.

The theme of challenge suggested by Mailer’s choice of this method is very much a part of the book. His hero challenges the Devil himself. Stephen Rojack kills his wife, lies to the police, is interrogated by them, discovers a woman, his wife’s opposite, in whom he senses the truth and strength he longs for. The ingredients of his story are deliberately those familiar from many a thriller or movie-murder—suspense, sex—but Rojack lives these experiences with a fierce intensity which shatters their popular image and reveals extraordinary meanings behind them. He is a man who believes in God and the Devil, and to whom God is courage, not love. His actions become explosively significant because he feels that any one of them might open the crack through which the Devil’s power, or that of God, could flood in.

Simply on the level of ‘what will happen next?’ ''An American Dream'' grips relentlessly: will the suspicious police pounce on Rojack? Will he and Cherry, his new girl, be able to
establish the love which has begun to grow between them? But beyond this there is the immense exhilaration springing from the boldness and passion with which Norman Mailer tackles his central theme of man as the battleground for God and the Devil.

This is his most exciting book since ''The Naked and the Dead'', which became a modern classic and has sold, over two and a half million copies in the English language.|source=Dust jacket text, British edition, Andre Deutsch, April 1965.}}

==Gallery==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:AAD-Esquire.jpg|Title and opening paragraph of the first installment of ''An American Dream'' in ''Esquire'', January 1964.
|File:AAD-Proofs.jpg|Cover of uncorrected page proof of the Dial Press edition.
|File:65-7.jpg|Front and spine of dust wrapper of the Dial Press edition.
|File:1964 NM by Ann Barry.jpg|Back panel of dust wrapper of the Dial press edition: photograph of Mailer by Anne Barry.
|File:Aad-ad.jpg|Advertisement in the ''New York Times'' for the ''Esquire'' serial version, 22 April 1964.
|File:AAD-Cover-Mockup.jpg|An early ''AAD'' cover mockup.
|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer.
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position.
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965.
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''.
|File:AAD-Movie-Ad.jpg|Advertisement for the film version of the novel from Warner Brothers Pressbook.
|File:1964-Bookseller.jpg|Cover of the British trade journal, ''The Bookseller'', 26 December 1964, featuring the forthcoming British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by Andre Deutsch.
|File:1964-PW.jpg|Cover of ''Publishers’ Weekly'' featuring the forthcoming Dial Press version of ''An American Dream'', 12 October 1964.
|File:65-7a.jpg|Cover of the third Dell paperback edition, published February 1970.
|File:65-7b.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7d.jpg|Paperback.
|File:65-7-Chinese Cover.jpg|Chinese hardcover.
|File:65-7-Vintage Cover.png|Vintage cover.
|File:65-7-Harper Ed.jpg|Harper cover.
|File:20190302_L_The_New_York_Time.JPG|Advertisement in the ''NYT''.
|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position.
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964
|File:19650130.jpg|Book Week News
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft Letter.
|File:19650316 1.JPG|Advertising Copy page 1 of 3
|File:19650316 2.JPG|Advertising Copy page 2 of 3
|File:19650316 3.JPG|Advertising Copy page 3 of 3
|File:19650322.1.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 1 of 4
|File:19650322.2.jpg|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 2 of 4
|File:19650322.3.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 3 of 4
|File:19650322.4.JPG|Press Conference ''Publishers Weekly'' March 23, 1965 page 4 of 4
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 1 of 2
|File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres,''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965 page 2 of 2
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Blurbs and Snippets==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963)
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963)
|File:Projectmailer.net-pm-Special-ListFiles-AAD-Time_Snippet.JPG|"(B)ecause ''Mailer'' is a born writer, it is a heady ride"
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>

==Letters==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. MASON, Madison, Wis.
}}
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
== Reviews ==
{{Gallery
|width=200
|height=200
|align=left
|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|William F. Buckley, Jr. states: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965) [[There's Hope in Mailer|Read More »]]
}}
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[[Category:Projects]]