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From ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12{{aade-sm}}

PRESS CONFERENCE

This year, the press conference immediately preceding the National Book Awards ceremony, in contrast to the running of the event in some past years, was quite lively. The contrast may have resulted from the fact that this year the committee in charge did not plant questions with the reviewers—questions which, it seemed, could provoke only canned answers. This year, the reviewers were allowed to ask their own questions, and up on the platform the winning authors answered them or parried them or, in some cases, got into arguments with each other

TWO CULTURES

[[w:Eleanor Clark|Eleanor Clark]], whose ''The Oysters of Locmariaquer'' (Pantheon) won the NBA in the arts and letters at the pre-NBA press conference, started a spirited if not especially consequential debate which might be described as “The Two Cultures and All That.” In researching for her book about oysters, she said she had talked to a number of marine biologists, oceanographers, and other scientists and that they had all been extremely helpful; but she doubted that there was anything that she, as a representative of the second of the Two Cultures, could have told the scientists that would have interested them very much. Communication between the Two Cultures, she concluded, was pretty much a one-way street.

COMPUTERS AS NBA JUDGES

M.I.T dean [[w:Jerome Wiesner|Jerome Wiesner]] who accepted the NBA in the science philosophy and religion category for the late [[w:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]], sought to be reassuring about the science half of the Two Cultures duality. “A computer, at least today, couldn’t pick an NBA winner because computers today aren’t subtle enough,” he said. “But you might try it next year,” he said cheerfully. “It will all depend on whether, in programming the machine, you can articulate enough in defining what an NBA judge’s job is.”

LIGHTS OUT

Dean Wiesner said he had attempted to bridge the Two Cultures to the extent of using a computer to compose his acceptance speech on behalf of Norbert Wiener. It didn’t work. Why not? “The power failed,” he reported.

SO’S YOUR OLD MAN

“Some computers can do a better job writing novels than some novelists can,” said Dean Wiesner at the press conference. This led poet [[w:Stanley Kunitz|Stanley Kunitz]], who accepted the NBA poetry aware for the late [[w:Theodore Roethke|Theodore Roethke]], to recall at least one occasion on which he had a computer compose poetry, which he then gave to a class of students who energetically undertook literary analysis of the work thus produced. Only at the end of the session did Mr. Kunitz tell the students that the poetry was not the work of a fellow sensitive artist but of a bunch of electronic tubes, blinking in some sort of sequence. The students were amazed (if that’s the word), said Mr. Kunitz, adding “Computer-composed poems sound like a computer.” “So do some poets,” quipped Dean Wiesner.

SHORT AND SWEET

An NBA winner for his ''The Life of Lenin'', [[w:Louis Fischer|Louis Fischer]] was regarded as an authority on all sorts of contemporary world problems—a role which he apparently relished—and was asked at the press conference to comment on the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam and other current crises. “I hope [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]] and [[w:Dean Rusk|Dean Rusk]] plan to negotiate,” Mr. Fischer said in answering a question about Vietnam. “All wars eventually end in negotiation any way. All wars last too long. Wars are best when they are short, or not at all.”

VIRTUE REWARDED

Earlier in the current theatrical season, [[w:Saul Bellow|Saul Bellow]] had a play, ''The Last Analysis'', on Broadway and it sank with scarcely a trace (though Viking Press will publish it in book form later this year). At the NBA press conference, NBA fiction winner Bellow was asked to compare his experiences as novelist and as playwright. “I expected that my novel, “Herzog,” to do as well as my earlier novels had done, but I expected to make a killing on the play. So I let the producer and the director fuss with the play script and change all kinds of things, but I wouldn’t let Viking Press change one word of the novel. I came out of the play without nickel, but as you can see here today, my virtue as a novelist has been rewarded.”

JEWISH NOVEL

Mr. Bellow was asked to comment on a phenomenon described by the questioner as “the American Jewish novel.” Mr. Bellow ducked it. “I’m asked about that all the time—I guess it’s what happens when you give education to everyone,” he said. “I’m only a writer, not a sociologist. I cannot account for the phenomenon.”

MAILER ON “HERZOG”

What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, “is a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian about “Herzog,”” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoeyevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.”

MORISON ON VIETNAM

Admiral [[w:Samuel Eliot Morison|Samuel Eliot Morison]], one of the participants in the March 10 press conference sponsored by the Publishers’ Publicity Association, was asked, as a historian, his view on Vietnam. His answer: “I’m just standing by, hoping for a lead from the President that we haven’t had yet. Supposing that after consulting with his advisors he has made up his mind, I think that he ought to take the people into his confidence as [[w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]] in his [[w:Fireside chats|fireside chats]].”

UNION BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.A.?

''The Oxford History of the American People'' (Oxford), and a Canadian newspaperman at the press conference asked the Admiral if he thought that union between the United States and Canada might ever come about. “I think that the only thing that could force any part of Canada into the United States would be the secession of Quebec,” he said. “If that happened the Maritime Provinces would be left out on a limb, and they might prefer to apply to the Unites States rather than be separated by Quebec.”

A LITTLE-KNOWN LYNCHING

The March 10 press conference was held on a day of violence in [[w:Selma, Alabama|Selman]], Ala., and Admiral Morison was asked if he thought there was any possibility of a federal law to cover murder within the separate states. Admitting that it was a difficult question of constitutional law, he said he thought, “this is what should be done, and it is not just the rights of Negroes which are involved either.” Back in 1890, Admiral Morison said, a group of Italian citizens was lynched in New Orleans. The Italian government protested vehemently and even contemplated sending over the Italian navy, which at the time was stronger than ours, to lob shells on the cities of the eastern seaboard in retaliation. The United States government ended by paying an indemnity to the families of the victims.

OPENING PARTY OF NBA WEEK

A number of authors of spring books were special guests of honor at the Publishers’ Publicity Association-Publishers Adclub cocktail party which opened National Book Awards week on March 8. One of the most sought-after and one of the most articulate was the young Negro writer, [[w:William Melvin Kelley|William Melvin Kelley]], author of ''A Different Drummer'', whose second novel, ''A Drop of Patience'' will be published by Doubleday on April 9. Mr. Kelley says he believes too many Negro writers succeed today because they beat white people over the head with their guilt and he, for one, does not want to be that kind of writer, although he has no illusions about the gravity of the racial crisis in the United States. Some Negro writers, Mr. Kelley said, have made themselves into kind of reverse court jesters for the white man.

NO PULITZER FOR SWANBERG IN ‘65

Another guest at the March 8 NBA cocktail party was [[w:W. A. Swanberg|W.A. Swangerg]], whose biography of a few years ago, ''Citizen Hearst'', almost won a Pulitzer Prize. If they turned down Hearst, said Mr. Swanberg, they would doubly turn down ''Dreiser'' (his new biography coming from Scribners in April). The rules of the Pulitzer Prizes require that the biography award go to a book “teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people,” as illustrated by the life of an eminent personage. One of the things that would disqualify Theodore Dreiser as a subject, Mr. Swanberg thought, was his love life. Out of over 20,000 Dreiser letters Mr. Swanberg read in his research literally thousands were written to women with whom he was romantically involved and some of them were “embarrassingly personal,” so much so that the names of several of the ladies have had to be fictionalized for the book.

TOO MANY GO TO COLLEGE

[[w:John Keats (writer)|John Keats]]’ next book, ''The Sheepskin Psychosis'', is coming from Lippincott on May 17 and Mr. Keats was talking at the March 8 party about his convictions that too many, not too few, high school graduates go on to college. He started the book, he said, when after writing a long article for Life on college dropouts he found that he had 63 pages of close notes left over which he had never used. “I wish,” Mr. Keats said, “I could get The Sheepskin Psychosis into the hands of every high school senior, who would then read the book aloud to his parents. Just getting into college has become such a status symbol that it has assumed more importance than what a student is going to get out of going to college.” Mr. Keats thinks it might be a good idea if more high school graduates “just conked out for a year and took the time to decide if they really want to go on to college.”

CONTRIBUTION

B. J. Chute, whose first collection of short stories since 1957, ''One Touch of Nature'', has just been published by Dutton, was one of the authors at the PPA’s press shindig. The stories in her new collection have been published in a variety of top magazines, and all were hard to sell to magazine editors, she said. She should know because she sold them all herself. “I have no agent for first rights, never have had,” she said. “I’m a hard bargainer, and I’d drive a clear-headed agent nuts.” Could this absence of an agent account for the long lag between her story collections? “It may be that my contribution to literature is that I have no agent,” she said.

OFF SCHEDULE

If [[w:Richard Pike Bissell|Richard Bissell]] were on schedule right now, he would be working on the script of a musical of his novel, ''Goodbye, Ava'', so that he could then write a novel about his experiences producing the musical so that he could sell the whole bit to the movies (as he did with ''7 ½ cents''—''Pajama Game''—''Say Darling''). Instead, he has written a new book ''Still Circling Moosejaw'' (McGraw Hill). At the PPA affair, Mr. Bissell said that several efforts had been made at a musical based on “Goodbye, Ava” but that nothing had jelled yet. He said, too, that he might get further off schedule by undertaking an original script for a musical. Which might then go to the movies and then result in a book about the whole business? “Not bad, not a bad idea,” said Mr. Bissell.

MORE FROM OPENING PARTY

Chatting with another author at the PPA-Adclub party, PW discovered that Richard Newcombe, author of the new ''Iwo Jima'' and two earlier exciting books about World War II and that some of his expertise in this kind of writing probably comes from the fact that he, himself, had a ship shot out from under him 39 days after he arrived in the South Pacific. Walter Lord, whose book about Mississippi and its racial conflicts is ''The Past That Will Not Die'' (Harper & Row, June 2), was busy telling visiting reviewers that he had a law school background (Yale) and that it came in very handy in doing the voluminous research for his new book. Mr. Lord didn’t know quite what to expect when he arrived in Mississippi, but he discovered, not without surprise, that “the white supremacist people like to talk,” often volubly.

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{{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)

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From ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12

=PRESS CONFERENCE=

This year, the press conference immediately preceding the National Book Awards ceremony, in contrast to the running of the event in some past years, was quite lively. The contrast may have resulted from the fact that this year the committee in charge did not plant questions with the reviewers—questions which, it seemed, could provoke only canned answers. This year, the reviewers were allowed to ask their own questions, and up on the platform the winning authors answered them or parried them or, in some cases, got into arguments with each other

=TWO CULTURES=

[[w:Eleanor Clark|Eleanor Clark]], whose ''The Oysters of Locmariaquer'' (Pantheon) won the NBA in the arts and letters at the pre-NBA press conference, started a spirited if not especially consequential debate which might be described as “The Two Cultures and All That.” In researching for her book about oysters, she said she had talked to a number of marine biologists, oceanographers, and other scientists and that they had all been extremely helpful; but she doubted that there was anything that she, as a representative of the second of the Two Cultures, could have told the scientists that would have interested them very much. Communication between the Two Cultures, she concluded, was pretty much a one-way street.

=COMPUTERS AS NBA JUDGES=

M.I.T dean [[w:Jerome Wiesner|Jerome Wiesner]] who accepted the NBA in the science philosophy and religion category for the late [[w:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]], sought to be reassuring about the science half of the Two Cultures duality. “A computer, at least today, couldn’t pick an NBA winner because computers today aren’t subtle enough,” he said. “But you might try it next year,” he said cheerfully. “It will all depend on whether, in programming the machine, you can articulate enough in defining what an NBA judge’s job is.”

=LIGHTS OUT=

Dean Wiesner said he had attempted to bridge the Two Cultures to the extent of using a computer to compose his acceptance speech on behalf of Norbert Wiener. It didn’t work. Why not? “The power failed,” he reported.

=SO’S YOUR OLD MAN=

“Some computers can do a better job writing novels than some novelists can,” said Dean Wiesner at the press conference. This led poet [[w:Stanley Kunitz|Stanley Kunitz]], who accepted the NBA poetry aware for the late [[w:Theodore Roethke|Theodore Roethke]], to recall at least one occasion on which he had a computer compose poetry, which he then gave to a class of students who energetically undertook literary analysis of the work thus produced. Only at the end of the session did Mr. Kunitz tell the students that the poetry was not the work of a fellow sensitive artist but of a bunch of electronic tubes, blinking in some sort of sequence. The students were amazed (if that’s the word), said Mr. Kunitz, adding “Computer-composed poems sound like a computer.” “So do some poets,” quipped Dean Wiesner.

=SHORT AND SWEET=

An NBA winner for his ''The Life of Lenin'', [[w:Louis Fischer|Louis Fischer]] was regarded as an authority on all sorts of contemporary world problems—a role which he apparently relished—and was asked at the press conference to comment on the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam and other current crises. “I hope [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]] and [[w:Dean Rusk|Dean Rusk]] plan to negotiate,” Mr. Fischer said in answering a question about Vietnam. “All wars eventually end in negotiation any way. All wars last too long. Wars are best when they are short, or not at all.”

=VIRTUE REWARDED=

Earlier in the current theatrical season, [[w:Saul Bellow|Saul Bellow]] had a play, ''The Last Analysis'', on Broadway and it sank with scarcely a trace (though Viking Press will publish it in book form later this year). At the NBA press conference, NBA fiction winner Bellow was asked to compare his experiences as novelist and as playwright. “I expected that my novel, “Herzog,” to do as well as my earlier novels had done, but I expected to make a killing on the play. So I let the producer and the director fuss with the play script and change all kinds of things, but I wouldn’t let Viking Press change one word of the novel. I came out of the play without nickel, but as you can see here today, my virtue as a novelist has been rewarded.”

=JEWISH NOVEL=

Mr. Bellow was asked to comment on a phenomenon described by the questioner as “the American Jewish novel.” Mr. Bellow ducked it. “I’m asked about that all the time—I guess it’s what happens when you give education to everyone,” he said. “I’m only a writer, not a sociologist. I cannot account for the phenomenon.”

=MAILER ON “HERZOG”=

What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, “is a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian about “Herzog,”” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoeyevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.”

=MORISON ON VIETNAM=

Admiral [[w:Samuel Eliot Morison|Samuel Eliot Morison]], one of the participants in the March 10 press conference sponsored by the Publishers’ Publicity Association, was asked, as a historian, his view on Vietnam. His answer: “I’m just standing by, hoping for a lead from the President that we haven’t had yet. Supposing that after consulting with his advisors he has made up his mind, I think that he ought to take the people into his confidence as [[w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]] in his [[w:Fireside chats|fireside chats]].”

=UNION BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.A.?=

''The Oxford History of the American People'' (Oxford), and a Canadian newspaperman at the press conference asked the Admiral if he thought that union between the United States and Canada might ever come about. “I think that the only thing that could force any part of Canada into the United States would be the secession of Quebec,” he said. “If that happened the Maritime Provinces would be left out on a limb, and they might prefer to apply to the Unites States rather than be separated by Quebec.”

=A LITTLE-KNOWN LYNCHING=

The March 10 press conference was held on a day of violence in [[w:Selma, Alabama|Selman]], Ala., and Admiral Morison was asked if he thought there was any possibility of a federal law to cover murder within the separate states. Admitting that it was a difficult question of constitutional law, he said he thought, “this is what should be done, and it is not just the rights of Negroes which are involved either.” Back in 1890, Admiral Morison said, a group of Italian citizens was lynched in New Orleans. The Italian government protested vehemently and even contemplated sending over the Italian navy, which at the time was stronger than ours, to lob shells on the cities of the eastern seaboard in retaliation. The United States government ended by paying an indemnity to the families of the victims.

=OPENING PARTY OF NBA WEEK=

A number of authors of spring books were special guests of honor at the Publishers’ Publicity Association-Publishers Adclub cocktail party which opened National Book Awards week on March 8. One of the most sought-after and one of the most articulate was the young Negro writer, [[w:William Melvin Kelley|William Melvin Kelley]], author of ''A Different Drummer'', whose second novel, ''A Drop of Patience'' will be published by Doubleday on April 9. Mr. Kelley says he believes too many Negro writers succeed today because they beat white people over the head with their guilt and he, for one, does not want to be that kind of writer, although he has no illusions about the gravity of the racial crisis in the United States. Some Negro writers, Mr. Kelley said, have made themselves into kind of reverse court jesters for the white man.

=NO PULITZER FOR SWANBERG IN ‘65=

Another guest at the March 8 NBA cocktail party was [[w:W. A. Swanberg|W.A. Swangerg]], whose biography of a few years ago, ''Citizen Hearst'', almost won a Pulitzer Prize. If they turned down Hearst, said Mr. Swanberg, they would doubly turn down ''Dreiser'' (his new biography coming from Scribners in April). The rules of the Pulitzer Prizes require that the biography award go to a book “teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people,” as illustrated by the life of an eminent personage. One of the things that would disqualify Theodore Dreiser as a subject, Mr. Swanberg thought, was his love life. Out of over 20,000 Dreiser letters Mr. Swanberg read in his research literally thousands were written to women with whom he was romantically involved and some of them were “embarrassingly personal,” so much so that the names of several of the ladies have had to be fictionalized for the book.

=TOO MANY GO TO COLLEGE=

[[w:John Keats (writer)|John Keats]]’ next book, ''The Sheepskin Psychosis'', is coming from Lippincott on May 17 and Mr. Keats was talking at the March 8 party about his convictions that too many, not too few, high school graduates go on to college. He started the book, he said, when after writing a long article for Life on college dropouts he found that he had 63 pages of close notes left over which he had never used. “I wish,” Mr. Keats said, “I could get The Sheepskin Psychosis into the hands of every high school senior, who would then read the book aloud to his parents. Just getting into college has become such a status symbol that it has assumed more importance than what a student is going to get out of going to college.” Mr. Keats thinks it might be a good idea if more high school graduates “just conked out for a year and took the time to decide if they really want to go on to college.”

=CONTRIBUTION=

B. J. Chute, whose first collection of short stories since 1957, ''One Touch of Nature'', has just been published by Dutton, was one of the authors at the PPA’s press shindig. The stories in her new collection have been published in a variety of top magazines, and all were hard to sell to magazine editors, she said. She should know because she sold them all herself. “I have no agent for first rights, never have had,” she said. “I’m a hard bargainer, and I’d drive a clear-headed agent nuts.” Could this absence of an agent account for the long lag between her story collections? “It may be that my contribution to literature is that I have no agent,” she said.

=OFF SCHEDULE=

If [[w:Richard Pike Bissell|Richard Bissell]] were on schedule right now, he would be working on the script of a musical of his novel, ''Goodbye, Ava'', so that he could then write a novel about his experiences producing the musical so that he could sell the whole bit to the movies (as he did with ''7 ½ cents''—''Pajama Game''—''Say Darling''). Instead, he has written a new book ''Still Circling Moosejaw'' (McGraw Hill). At the PPA affair, Mr. Bissell said that several efforts had been made at a musical based on “Goodbye, Ava” but that nothing had jelled yet. He said, too, that he might get further off schedule by undertaking an original script for a musical. Which might then go to the movies and then result in a book about the whole business? “Not bad, not a bad idea,” said Mr. Bissell.

=MORE FROM OPENING PARTY=

Chatting with another author at the PPA-Adclub party, PW discovered that Richard Newcombe, author of the new ''Iwo Jima'' and two earlier exciting books about World War II and that some of his expertise in this kind of writing probably comes from the fact that he, himself, had a ship shot out from under him 39 days after he arrived in the South Pacific. Walter Lord, whose book about Mississippi and its racial conflicts is ''The Past That Will Not Die'' (Harper & Row, June 2), was busy telling visiting reviewers that he had a law school background (Yale) and that it came in very handy in doing the voluminous research for his new book. Mr. Lord didn’t know quite what to expect when he arrived in Mississippi, but he discovered, not without surprise, that “the white supremacist people like to talk,” often volubly.

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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.

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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.”

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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]]

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]]

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]]

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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Dmcgonagill: comment/question

{{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))

An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965

2019-04-24T18:09:14Z

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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, “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]]

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

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 Currents, March 23, 1965

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An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965

2019-04-24T16:22:57Z

Dmcgonagill: added subheadings

{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965}}
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From the ''Herald Tribune'', April 1, 1965.

The party was to honor Jose Torres, the new light-heavyweight champion of the world, and the fight mob turned out in force. Jimmy Baldwin was there, of course. And Leslie Fiedler and George Plimpton and Norman Podhoretz, and there was, in the atmosphere, the special camaraderie of people who have read and understood "The Killers” and "Forty Grand" and "The Sun Also Rises." When Torres came through the door at 2:45 yesterday morning, the first person to shake his hand, naturally, was a literary critic.

"Mucho gusto felicidades, Joselito," said the literary critic, who was brave and true and bilingual.

"Great fight, champ," said a Puerto Rican.

And Torres smiled his thin, neat smile, and slid among the socialites and the novelists and the debutantes.

The boxing clan had gathered at Norman Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment to toast Torres, who a few hours earlier had destroyed Willie Pastrano and had won the world championship for the glory of Puerto Rico and the Partisan Review.

Mailer was the perfect host, charming and gracious, mingling among the hundreds of crowded guests, guiding people toward the two well-stocksd bars, seeing to it that Jose's mother and father and his own mother and father did not get lost in the crush. And now and then Mailer paused and talked about the fight and about the punch that crippled Pastrano, that shattered his insides, and among all the guests, Mailer was one of the few who knew what he was talking about. It was a very good party

=THE FIGHT MOB=

A clique collected around Leslie Fiedler, who had come in from Buffalo. Fiedler had not seen Torres fight. He had delivered a speech in Stony Brook, then had hurried to the party. But he was talking about the last fight he had watched, Gene Fullmer against Joey Giardello, in Bozeman, Montana, in 1960. He remembered the fight vividly. "When Fullmer came into the ring," Fiedler said, “somebody turned to me and said, ‘I didn't know he was a white man. I thought he was a Mormon.’" Fiedler laughed heartily, and the people around him nodded. He is a professor and a critic and a novelist, and his words carry great weight among the fight crowd.

A lady who lives in the Dakota apartments looked a lttle bewildered. She had not gone to the fight either. In fact, she had never gone to a fight. But she lives in the Dakota, which qualifies her as a member of the fight mob. "Who is Torres?" she asked.

The conversations touched on all those little things that appeal to boxing buffs. "You see that guy sitting over there in the corner?" someone said. "He was the model for Valentine Gersbach in ‘Herzog.’" That's the sort of information you always hear around Madison Square Garden.

One book reviewer was having a terrible problem. He wanted to talk about the fight. He wanted to find somebody who would stand still and discuss the fight seriously. He finally found Norman Mailer's father, and the two of them stood in a corner and analyzed Torres' jab and Torres' peek-a-boo defense and Torres' surprising strength, and most of the people who wandered past them, toting glasses of scotch and bourbon, didn't have the foggiest notion what they were talking about.

=THE FIGHTING MAN=

The best thing about the party was Torres. He is an impressive young man, calm and friendly and confident. He has matured a great deal since he was fighting in Sunnyside Gardens seven years ago, ringing up an imposing string of victories. He was friendly then, too, and immediately likeable, but now he is his own man. He looked so good against Pastrano, so much better than many of the people at the party had expected him to look. Some of the ones who were slapping him on the back and shaking his hand had been saying, before the bout that Torres still looked like a middleweight, that he was in over his head against the veteran Pastrano.

In Mailer's apartment, with its handsome nautical decor and its magnificent view of the harbor, with writers and philosophers and hangers-on swirling about him, Torres seemed completely at ease, much more at home than many of the guests. Novelists couldn't scare him. In his training camp a few weeks ago, while Mailer stood on one side of the room explaining why Torres would win the fight, Torres stood on the other, explaining the beauty of Mailer's new novel, ''[[An American Dream]]''.

There was, at least, a touch or two of phoniness at the party that lingered into yesterday morning, but the relationship between Mailer and Torres is real. There is mutual respect and mutual affection, and each brings to the other something that he needs. It is a nice thing to see, even if there is an occasional temptation to call Torres "Ordonez."

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An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965

2019-04-24T16:14:46Z

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{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965}}
[[File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG|thumb|left]]{{aade-sm}}
[[File:19650401.1 Herald Tribune.JPG|thumb|left]]

The party was to honor Jose Torres, the new light-heavyweight champion of the world, and the fight mob turned out in force. Jimmy Baldwin was there, of course. And Leslie Fiedler and George Plimpton and Norman Podhoretz, and there was, in the atmosphere, the special camaraderie of people who have read and understood "The Killers” and "Forty Grand" and "The Sun Also Rises." When Torres came through the door at 2:45 yesterday morning, the first person to shake his hand, naturally, was a literary critic.

"Mucho gusto felicidades, Joselito," said the literary critic, who was brave and true and bilingual.

"Great fight, champ," said a Puerto Rican.

And Torres smiled his thin, neat smile, and slid among the socialites and the novelists and the debutantes.

The boxing clan had gathered at Norman Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment to toast Torres, who a few hours earlier had destroyed Willie Pastrano and had won the world championship for the glory of Puerto Rico and the Partisan Review.

Mailer was the perfect host, charming and gracious, mingling among the hundreds of crowded guests, guiding people toward the two well-stocksd bars, seeing to it that Jose's mother and father and his own mother and father did not get lost in the crush. And now and then Mailer paused and talked about the fight and about the punch that crippled Pastrano, that shattered his insides, and among all the guests, Mailer was one of the few who knew what he was talking about. It was a very good party

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

THE FIGHT MOB

A clique collected around Leslie Fiedler, who had come in from Buffalo. Fiedler had not seen Torres fight. He had delivered a speech in Stony Brook, then had hurried to the party. But he was talking about the last fight he had watched, Gene Fullmer against Joey Giardello, in Bozeman, Montana, in 1960. He remembered the fight vividly. "When Fullmer came into the ring," Fiedler said, “somebody turned to me and said, ‘I didn't know he was a white man. I thought he was a Mormon.’" Fiedler laughed heartily, and the people around him nodded. He is a professor and a critic and a novelist, and his words carry great weight among the fight crowd.

A lady who lives in the Dakota apartments looked a lttle bewildered. She had not gone to the fight either. In fact, she had never gone to a fight. But she lives in the Dakota, which qualifies her as a member of the fight mob. "Who is Torres?" she asked.

The conversations touched on all those little things that appeal to boxing buffs. "You see that guy sitting over there in the corner?" someone said. "He was the model for Valentine Gersbach in ‘Herzog.’" That's the sort of information you always hear around Madison Square Garden.

One book reviewer was having a terrible problem. He wanted to talk about the fight. He wanted to find somebody who would stand still and discuss the fight seriously. He finally found Norman Mailer's father, and the two of them stood in a corner and analyzed Torres' jab and Torres' peek-a-boo defense and Torres' surprising strength, and most of the people who wandered past them, toting glasses of scotch and bourbon, didn't have the foggiest notion what they were talking about.

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

THE FIGHTING MAN

The best thing about the party was Torres. He is an impressive young man, calm and friendly and confident. He has matured a great deal since he was fighting in Sunnyside Gardens seven years ago, ringing up an imposing string of victories. He was friendly then, too, and immediately likeable, but now he is his own man. He looked so good against Pastrano, so much better than many of the people at the party had expected him to look. Some of the ones who were slapping him on the back and shaking his hand had been saying, before the bout that Torres still looked like a middleweight, that he was in over his head against the veteran Pastrano.

In Mailer's apartment, with its handsome nautical decor and its magnificent view of the harbor, with writers and philosophers and hangers-on swirling about him, Torres seemed completely at ease, much more at home than many of the guests. Novelists couldn't scare him. In his training camp a few weeks ago, while Mailer stood on one side of the room explaining why Torres would win the fight, Torres stood on the other, explaining the beauty of Mailer's new novel, ''[[An American Dream]]''.

There was, at least, a touch or two of phoniness at the party that lingered into yesterday morning, but the relationship between Mailer and Torres is real. There is mutual respect and mutual affection, and each brings to the other something that he needs. It is a nice thing to see, even if there is an occasional temptation to call Torres "Ordonez."

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Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-23T19:06:21Z

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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)

{{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
# [[''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]] 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

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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
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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|[[''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965|''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 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
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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 1965 letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. A. 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|[[TheNorthAmericanReview/RobertDana|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: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 [[SaturdayReview/BillPowers|letter to the Book Review Editor]] at the ''[[w:Saturday Review (U.S. magazine)|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."

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

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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.
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|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
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|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|[[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.
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==Blurbs and Snippets==
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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 1965 letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. A. Wallace expressing his support for Norman Mailer.
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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.
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|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."
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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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{{cquote|''[[An American Dream|AN AMERICAN DREAM]]'' is a new experience. 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''}}

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{{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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{{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 ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12

PRESS CONFERENCE

This year, the press conference immediately preceding the National Book Awards ceremony, in contrast to the running of the event in some past years, was quite lively. The contrast may have resulted from the fact that this year the committee in charge did not plant questions with the reviewers—questions which, it seemed, could provoke only canned answers. This year, the reviewers were allowed to ask their own questions, and up on the platform the winning authors answered them or parried them or, in some cases, got into arguments with each other

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TWO CULTURES

[[w:Eleanor Clark|Eleanor Clark]], whose ''The Oysters of Locmariaquer'' (Pantheon) won the NBA in the arts and letters at the pre-NBA press conference, started a spirited if not especially consequential debate which might be described as “The Two Cultures and All That.” In researching for her book about oysters, she said she had talked to a number of marine biologists, oceanographers, and other scientists and that they had all been extremely helpful; but she doubted that there was anything that she, as a representative of the second of the Two Cultures, could have told the scientists that would have interested them very much. Communication between the Two Cultures, she concluded, was pretty much a one-way street.

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COMPUTERS AS NBA JUDGES

M.I.T dean [[w:Jerome Wiesner|Jerome Wiesner]] who accepted the NBA in the science philosophy and religion category for the late [[w:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]], sought to be reassuring about the science half of the Two Cultures duality. “A computer, at least today, couldn’t pick an NBA winner because computers today aren’t subtle enough,” he said. “But you might try it next year,” he said cheerfully. “It will all depend on whether, in programming the machine, you can articulate enough in defining what an NBA judge’s job is.”

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LIGHTS OUT

Dean Wiesner said he had attempted to bridge the Two Cultures to the extent of using a computer to compose his acceptance speech on behalf of Norbert Wiener. It didn’t work. Why not? “The power failed,” he reported.

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SO’S YOUR OLD MAN

“Some computers can do a better job writing novels than some novelists can,” said Dean Wiesner at the press conference. This led poet [[w:Stanley Kunitz|Stanley Kunitz]], who accepted the NBA poetry aware for the late [[w:Theodore Roethke|Theodore Roethke]], to recall at least one occasion on which he had a computer compose poetry, which he then gave to a class of students who energetically undertook literary analysis of the work thus produced. Only at the end of the session did Mr. Kunitz tell the students that the poetry was not the work of a fellow sensitive artist but of a bunch of electronic tubes, blinking in some sort of sequence. The students were amazed (if that’s the word), said Mr. Kunitz, adding “Computer-composed poems sound like a computer.” “So do some poets,” quipped Dean Wiesner.

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SHORT AND SWEET

An NBA winner for his ''The Life of Lenin'', [[w:Louis Fischer|Louis Fischer]] was regarded as an authority on all sorts of contemporary world problems—a role which he apparently relished—and was asked at the press conference to comment on the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam and other current crises. “I hope [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]] and [[w:Dean Rusk|Dean Rusk]] plan to negotiate,” Mr. Fischer said in answering a question about Vietnam. “All wars eventually end in negotiation any way. All wars last too long. Wars are best when they are short, or not at all.”

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VIRTUE REWARDED

Earlier in the current theatrical season, [[w:Saul Bellow|Saul Bellow]] had a play, ''The Last Analysis'', on Broadway and it sank with scarcely a trace (though Viking Press will publish it in book form later this year). At the NBA press conference, NBA fiction winner Bellow was asked to compare his experiences as novelist and as playwright. “I expected that my novel, “Herzog,” to do as well as my earlier novels had done, but I expected to make a killing on the play. So I let the producer and the director fuss with the play script and change all kinds of things, but I wouldn’t let Viking Press change one word of the novel. I came out of the play without nickel, but as you can see here today, my virtue as a novelist has been rewarded.”

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JEWISH NOVEL

Mr. Bellow was asked to comment on a phenomenon described by the questioner as “the American Jewish novel.” Mr. Bellow ducked it. “I’m asked about that all the time—I guess it’s what happens when you give education to everyone,” he said. “I’m only a writer, not a sociologist. I cannot account for the phenomenon.”

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MAILER ON “HERZOG”

What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, “is a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian about “Herzog,”” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoeyevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.”

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MORISON ON VIETNAM

Admiral [[w:Samuel Eliot Morison|Samuel Eliot Morison]], one of the participants in the March 10 press conference sponsored by the Publishers’ Publicity Association, was asked, as a historian, his view on Vietnam. His answer: “I’m just standing by, hoping for a lead from the President that we haven’t had yet. Supposing that after consulting with his advisors he has made up his mind, I think that he ought to take the people into his confidence as [[w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]] in his [[w:Fireside chats|fireside chats]].”

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UNION BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.A.?

''The Oxford History of the American People'' (Oxford), and a Canadian newspaperman at the press conference asked the Admiral if he thought that union between the United States and Canada might ever come about. “I think that the only thing that could force any part of Canada into the United States would be the secession of Quebec,” he said. “If that happened the Maritime Provinces would be left out on a limb, and they might prefer to apply to the Unites States rather than be separated by Quebec.”

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A LITTLE-KNOWN LYNCHING

The March 10 press conference was held on a day of violence in [[w:Selma, Alabama|Selman]], Ala., and Admiral Morison was asked if he thought there was any possibility of a federal law to cover murder within the separate states. Admitting that it was a difficult question of constitutional law, he said he thought, “this is what should be done, and it is not just the rights of Negroes which are involved either.” Back in 1890, Admiral Morison said, a group of Italian citizens was lynched in New Orleans. The Italian government protested vehemently and even contemplated sending over the Italian navy, which at the time was stronger than ours, to lob shells on the cities of the eastern seaboard in retaliation. The United States government ended by paying an indemnity to the families of the victims.

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OPENING PARTY OF NBA WEEK

A number of authors of spring books were special guests of honor at the Publishers’ Publicity Association-Publishers Adclub cocktail party which opened National Book Awards week on March 8. One of the most sought-after and one of the most articulate was the young Negro writer, [[w:William Melvin Kelley|William Melvin Kelley]], author of ''A Different Drummer'', whose second novel, ''A Drop of Patience'' will be published by Doubleday on April 9. Mr. Kelley says he believes too many Negro writers succeed today because they beat white people over the head with their guilt and he, for one, does not want to be that kind of writer, although he has no illusions about the gravity of the racial crisis in the United States. Some Negro writers, Mr. Kelley said, have made themselves into kind of reverse court jesters for the white man.

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NO PULITZER FOR SWANBERG IN ‘65

Another guest at the March 8 NBA cocktail party was [[w:W. A. Swanberg|W.A. Swangerg]], whose biography of a few years ago, ''Citizen Hearst'', almost won a Pulitzer Prize. If they turned down Hearst, said Mr. Swanberg, they would doubly turn down ''Dreiser'' (his new biography coming from Scribners in April). The rules of the Pulitzer Prizes require that the biography award go to a book “teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people,” as illustrated by the life of an eminent personage. One of the things that would disqualify Theodore Dreiser as a subject, Mr. Swanberg thought, was his love life. Out of over 20,000 Dreiser letters Mr. Swanberg read in his research literally thousands were written to women with whom he was romantically involved and some of them were “embarrassingly personal,” so much so that the names of several of the ladies have had to be fictionalized for the book.

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TOO MANY GO TO COLLEGE

[[w:John Keats (writer)|John Keats]]’ next book, ''The Sheepskin Psychosis'', is coming from Lippincott on May 17 and Mr. Keats was talking at the March 8 party about his convictions that too many, not too few, high school graduates go on to college. He started the book, he said, when after writing a long article for Life on college dropouts he found that he had 63 pages of close notes left over which he had never used. “I wish,” Mr. Keats said, “I could get The Sheepskin Psychosis into the hands of every high school senior, who would then read the book aloud to his parents. Just getting into college has become such a status symbol that it has assumed more importance than what a student is going to get out of going to college.” Mr. Keats thinks it might be a good idea if more high school graduates “just conked out for a year and took the time to decide if they really want to go on to college.”

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CONTRIBUTION

B. J. Chute, whose first collection of short stories since 1957, ''One Touch of Nature'', has just been published by Dutton, was one of the authors at the PPA’s press shindig. The stories in her new collection have been published in a variety of top magazines, and all were hard to sell to magazine editors, she said. She should know because she sold them all herself. “I have no agent for first rights, never have had,” she said. “I’m a hard bargainer, and I’d drive a clear-headed agent nuts.” Could this absence of an agent account for the long lag between her story collections? “It may be that my contribution to literature is that I have no agent,” she said.

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OFF SCHEDULE

If [[w:Richard Pike Bissell|Richard Bissell]] were on schedule right now, he would be working on the script of a musical of his novel, ''Goodbye, Ava'', so that he could then write a novel about his experiences producing the musical so that he could sell the whole bit to the movies (as he did with ''7 ½ cents''—''Pajama Game''—''Say Darling''). Instead, he has written a new book ''Still Circling Moosejaw'' (McGraw Hill). At the PPA affair, Mr. Bissell said that several efforts had been made at a musical based on “Goodbye, Ava” but that nothing had jelled yet. He said, too, that he might get further off schedule by undertaking an original script for a musical. Which might then go to the movies and then result in a book about the whole business? “Not bad, not a bad idea,” said Mr. Bissell.

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MORE FROM OPENING PARTY

Chatting with another author at the PPA-Adclub party, PW discovered that Richard Newcombe, author of the new ''Iwo Jima'' and two earlier exciting books about World War II and that some of his expertise in this kind of writing probably comes from the fact that he, himself, had a ship shot out from under him 39 days after he arrived in the South Pacific. Walter Lord, whose book about Mississippi and its racial conflicts is ''The Past That Will Not Die'' (Harper & Row, June 2), was busy telling visiting reviewers that he had a law school background (Yale) and that it came in very handy in doing the voluminous research for his new book. Mr. Lord didn’t know quite what to expect when he arrived in Mississippi, but he discovered, not without surprise, that “the white supremacist people like to talk,” often volubly.

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From ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12

PRESS CONFERENCE

This year, the press conference immediately preceding the National Book Awards ceremony, in contrast to the running of the event in some past years, was quite lively. The contrast may have resulted from the fact that this year the committee in charge did not plant questions with the reviewers—questions which, it seemed, could provoke only canned answers. This year, the reviewers were allowed to ask their own questions, and up on the platform the winning authors answered them or parried them or, in some cases, got into arguments with each other

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TWO CULTURES

[[w:Eleanor Clark|Eleanor Clark]], whose ''The Oysters of Locmariaquer'' (Pantheon) won the NBA in the arts and letters at the pre-NBA press conference, started a spirited if not especially consequential debate which might be described as “The Two Cultures and All That.” In researching for her book about oysters, she said she had talked to a number of marine biologists, oceanographers, and other scientists and that they had all been extremely helpful; but she doubted that there was anything that she, as a representative of the second of the Two Cultures, could have told the scientists that would have interested them very much. Communication between the Two Cultures, she concluded, was pretty much a one-way street.

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COMPUTERS AS NBA JUDGES

M.I.T dean [[w:Jerome Wiesner|Jerome Wiesner]] who accepted the NBA in the science philosophy and religion category for the late [[w:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]], sought to be reassuring about the science half of the Two Cultures duality. “A computer, at least today, couldn’t pick an NBA winner because computers today aren’t subtle enough,” he said. “But you might try it next year,” he said cheerfully. “It will all depend on whether, in programming the machine, you can articulate enough in defining what an NBA judge’s job is.”

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LIGHTS OUT

Dean Wiesner said he had attempted to bridge the Two Cultures to the extent of using a computer to compose his acceptance speech on behalf of Norbert Wiener. It didn’t work. Why not? “The power failed,” he reported.

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

SO’S YOUR OLD MAN

“Some computers can do a better job writing novels than some novelists can,” said Dean Wiesner at the press conference. This led poet [[w:Stanley Kunitz|Stanley Kunitz]], who accepted the NBA poetry aware for the late [[w:Theodore Roethke|Theodore Roethke]], to recall at least one occasion on which he had a computer compose poetry, which he then gave to a class of students who energetically undertook literary analysis of the work thus produced. Only at the end of the session did Mr. Kunitz tell the students that the poetry was not the work of a fellow sensitive artist but of a bunch of electronic tubes, blinking in some sort of sequence. The students were amazed (if that’s the word), said Mr. Kunitz, adding “Computer-composed poems sound like a computer.” “So do some poets,” quipped Dean Wiesner.

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SHORT AND SWEET

An NBA winner for his ''The Life of Lenin'', [[w:Louis Fischer|Louis Fischer]] was regarded as an authority on all sorts of contemporary world problems—a role which he apparently relished—and was asked at the press conference to comment on the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam and other current crises. “I hope [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]] and [[w:Dean Rusk|Dean Rusk]] plan to negotiate,” Mr. Fischer said in answering a question about Vietnam. “All wars eventually end in negotiation any way. All wars last too long. Wars are best when they are short, or not at all.”

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VIRTUE REWARDED

Earlier in the current theatrical season, [[w:Saul Bellow|Saul Bellow]] had a play, ''The Last Analysis'', on Broadway and it sank with scarcely a trace (though Viking Press will publish it in book form later this year). At the NBA press conference, NBA fiction winner Bellow was asked to compare his experiences as novelist and as playwright. “I expected that my novel, “Herzog,” to do as well as my earlier novels had done, but I expected to make a killing on the play. So I let the producer and the director fuss with the play script and change all kinds of things, but I wouldn’t let Viking Press change one word of the novel. I came out of the play without nickel, but as you can see here today, my virtue as a novelist has been rewarded.”

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JEWISH NOVEL

Mr. Bellow was asked to comment on a phenomenon described by the questioner as “the American Jewish novel.” Mr. Bellow ducked it. “I’m asked about that all the time—I guess it’s what happens when you give education to everyone,” he said. “I’m only a writer, not a sociologist. I cannot account for the phenomenon.”

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MAILER ON “HERZOG”

What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, “is a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian about “Herzog,”” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoeyevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.”

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MORISON ON VIETNAM

Admiral [[w:Samuel Eliot Morison|Samuel Eliot Morison]], one of the participants in the March 10 press conference sponsored by the Publishers’ Publicity Association, was asked, as a historian, his view on Vietnam. His answer: “I’m just standing by, hoping for a lead from the President that we haven’t had yet. Supposing that after consulting with his advisors he has made up his mind, I think that he ought to take the people into his confidence as [[w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]] in his [[w:Fireside chats|fireside chats]].”

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UNION BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.A.?

''The Oxford History of the American People'' (Oxford), and a Canadian newspaperman at the press conference asked the Admiral if he thought that union between the United States and Canada might ever come about. “I think that the only thing that could force any part of Canada into the United States would be the secession of Quebec,” he said. “If that happened the Maritime Provinces would be left out on a limb, and they might prefer to apply to the Unites States rather than be separated by Quebec.”

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A LITTLE-KNOWN LYNCHING

The March 10 press conference was held on a day of violence in [[w:Selma, Alabama|Selman]], Ala., and Admiral Morison was asked if he thought there was any possibility of a federal law to cover murder within the separate states. Admitting that it was a difficult question of constitutional law, he said he thought, “this is what should be done, and it is not just the rights of Negroes which are involved either.” Back in 1890, Admiral Morison said, a group of Italian citizens was lynched in New Orleans. The Italian government protested vehemently and even contemplated sending over the Italian navy, which at the time was stronger than ours, to lob shells on the cities of the eastern seaboard in retaliation. The United States government ended by paying an indemnity to the families of the victims.

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OPENING PARTY OF NBA WEEK

A number of authors of spring books were special guests of honor at the Publishers’ Publicity Association-Publishers Adclub cocktail party which opened National Book Awards week on March 8. One of the most sought-after and one of the most articulate was the young Negro writer, [[w:William Melvin Kelley|William Melvin Kelley]], author of ''A Different Drummer'', whose second novel, ''A Drop of Patience'' will be published by Doubleday on April 9. Mr. Kelley says he believes too many Negro writers succeed today because they beat white people over the head with their guilt and he, for one, does not want to be that kind of writer, although he has no illusions about the gravity of the racial crisis in the United States. Some Negro writers, Mr. Kelley said, have made themselves into kind of reverse court jesters for the white man.

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NO PULITZER FOR SWANBERG IN ‘65

Another guest at the March 8 NBA cocktail party was [[w:W. A. Swanberg|W.A. Swangerg]], whose biography of a few years ago, ''Citizen Hearst'', almost won a Pulitzer Prize. If they turned down Hearst, said Mr. Swanberg, they would doubly turn down ''Dreiser'' (his new biography coming from Scribners in April). The rules of the Pulitzer Prizes require that the biography award go to a book “teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people,” as illustrated by the life of an eminent personage. One of the things that would disqualify Theodore Dreiser as a subject, Mr. Swanberg thought, was his love life. Out of over 20,000 Dreiser letters Mr. Swanberg read in his research literally thousands were written to women with whom he was romantically involved and some of them were “embarrassingly personal,” so much so that the names of several of the ladies have had to be fictionalized for the book.

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TOO MANY GO TO COLLEGE

[[w:John Keats (writer)|John Keats]]’ next book, ''The Sheepskin Psychosis'', is coming from Lippincott on May 17 and Mr. Keats was talking at the March 8 party about his convictions that too many, not too few, high school graduates go on to college. He started the book, he said, when after writing a long article for Life on college dropouts he found that he had 63 pages of close notes left over which he had never used. “I wish,” Mr. Keats said, “I could get The Sheepskin Psychosis into the hands of every high school senior, who would then read the book aloud to his parents. Just getting into college has become such a status symbol that it has assumed more importance than what a student is going to get out of going to college.” Mr. Keats thinks it might be a good idea if more high school graduates “just conked out for a year and took the time to decide if they really want to go on to college.”

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CONTRIBUTION

B. J. Chute, whose first collection of short stories since 1957, ''One Touch of Nature'', has just been published by Dutton, was one of the authors at the PPA’s press shindig. The stories in her new collection have been published in a variety of top magazines, and all were hard to sell to magazine editors, she said. She should know because she sold them all herself. “I have no agent for first rights, never have had,” she said. “I’m a hard bargainer, and I’d drive a clear-headed agent nuts.” Could this absence of an agent account for the long lag between her story collections? “It may be that my contribution to literature is that I have no agent,” she said.

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OFF SCHEDULE

If [[w:Richard Pike Bissell|Richard Bissell]] were on schedule right now, he would be working on the script of a musical of his novel, ''Goodbye, Ava'', so that he could then write a novel about his experiences producing the musical so that he could sell the whole bit to the movies (as he did with ''7 ½ cents''—''Pajama Game''—''Say Darling''). Instead, he has written a new book ''Still Circling Moosejaw'' (McGraw Hill). At the PPA affair, Mr. Bissell said that several efforts had been made at a musical based on “Goodbye, Ava” but that nothing had jelled yet. He said, too, that he might get further off schedule by undertaking an original script for a musical. Which might then go to the movies and then result in a book about the whole business? “Not bad, not a bad idea,” said Mr. Bissell.

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MORE FROM OPENING PARTY

Chatting with another author at the PPA-Adclub party, PW discovered that Richard Newcombe, author of the new ''Iwo Jima'' and two earlier exciting books about World War II and that some of his expertise in this kind of writing probably comes from the fact that he, himself, had a ship shot out from under him 39 days after he arrived in the South Pacific. Walter Lord, whose book about Mississippi and its racial conflicts is ''The Past That Will Not Die'' (Harper & Row, June 2), was busy telling visiting reviewers that he had a law school background (Yale) and that it came in very handy in doing the voluminous research for his new book. Mr. Lord didn’t know quite what to expect when he arrived in Mississippi, but he discovered, not without surprise, that “the white supremacist people like to talk,” often volubly.

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From ''Publishers Weekly'', March 22, 1965 Number 12<br>

PRESS CONFERENCE

This year, the press conference immediately preceding the National Book Awards ceremony, in contrast to the running of the event in some past years, was quite lively. The contrast may have resulted from the fact that this year the committee in charge did not plant questions with the reviewers—questions which, it seemed, could provoke only canned answers. This year, the reviewers were allowed to ask their own questions, and up on the platform the winning authors answered them or parried them or, in some cases, got into arguments with each other

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TWO CULTURES

[[w:Eleanor Clark|Eleanor Clark]], whose ''The Oysters of Locmariaquer'' (Pantheon) won the NBA in the arts and letters at the pre-NBA press conference, started a spirited if not especially consequential debate which might be described as “The Two Cultures and All That.” In researching for her book about oysters, she said she had talked to a number of marine biologists, oceanographers, and other scientists and that they had all been extremely helpful; but she doubted that there was anything that she, as a representative of the second of the Two Cultures, could have told the scientists that would have interested them very much. Communication between the Two Cultures, she concluded, was pretty much a one-way street.

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COMPUTERS AS NBA JUDGES

M.I.T dean [[w:Jerome Wiesner|Jerome Wiesner]] who accepted the NBA in the science philosophy and religion category for the late [[w:Norbert Wiener|Norbert Wiener]], sought to be reassuring about the science half of the Two Cultures duality. “A computer, at least today, couldn’t pick an NBA winner because computers today aren’t subtle enough,” he said. “But you might try it next year,” he said cheerfully. “It will all depend on whether, in programming the machine, you can articulate enough in defining what an NBA judge’s job is.”

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

LIGHTS OUT

Dean Wiesner said he had attempted to bridge the Two Cultures to the extent of using a computer to compose his acceptance speech on behalf of Norbert Wiener. It didn’t work. Why not? “The power failed,” he reported.

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

SO’S YOUR OLD MAN

“Some computers can do a better job writing novels than some novelists can,” said Dean Wiesner at the press conference. This led poet [[w:Stanley Kunitz|Stanley Kunitz]], who accepted the NBA poetry aware for the late [[w:Theodore Roethke|Theodore Roethke]], to recall at least one occasion on which he had a computer compose poetry, which he then gave to a class of students who energetically undertook literary analysis of the work thus produced. Only at the end of the session did Mr. Kunitz tell the students that the poetry was not the work of a fellow sensitive artist but of a bunch of electronic tubes, blinking in some sort of sequence. The students were amazed (if that’s the word), said Mr. Kunitz, adding “Computer-composed poems sound like a computer.” “So do some poets,” quipped Dean Wiesner.

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

SHORT AND SWEET

An NBA winner for his ''The Life of Lenin'', [[w:Louis Fischer|Louis Fischer]] was regarded as an authority on all sorts of contemporary world problems—a role which he apparently relished—and was asked at the press conference to comment on the Sino-Soviet split, Vietnam and other current crises. “I hope [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|President Johnson]] and [[w:Dean Rusk|Dean Rusk]] plan to negotiate,” Mr. Fischer said in answering a question about Vietnam. “All wars eventually end in negotiation any way. All wars last too long. Wars are best when they are short, or not at all.”

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VIRTUE REWARDED

Earlier in the current theatrical season, [[w:Saul Bellow|Saul Bellow]] had a play, ''The Last Analysis'', on Broadway and it sank with scarcely a trace (though Viking Press will publish it in book form later this year). At the NBA press conference, NBA fiction winner Bellow was asked to compare his experiences as novelist and as playwright. “I expected that my novel, “Herzog,” to do as well as my earlier novels had done, but I expected to make a killing on the play. So I let the producer and the director fuss with the play script and change all kinds of things, but I wouldn’t let Viking Press change one word of the novel. I came out of the play without nickel, but as you can see here today, my virtue as a novelist has been rewarded.”

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JEWISH NOVEL

Mr. Bellow was asked to comment on a phenomenon described by the questioner as “the American Jewish novel.” Mr. Bellow ducked it. “I’m asked about that all the time—I guess it’s what happens when you give education to everyone,” he said. “I’m only a writer, not a sociologist. I cannot account for the phenomenon.”

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MAILER ON “HERZOG”

What ''Herzog'' does have, in the Mailer view, “is a sense of compassion I haven’t come across in a long time. There is something almost Russian about “Herzog,”” Mr. Mailer said. “You have to go back to [[w:Fyodor Dostoeyevsky|Dostoeyevsky]] to find a parallel, but ''Herzog'' also has so much self-pity. What did impress me about it was that my heart was literally burning as I read it. It might be one of the most important books written in America and it might not, because it has mistakes. I do not know. But I do know that I do not see Bellow as lord of the intellectuals. He has the mind of a rater dull college professor who has read too many books and grasped the essence of none of them.”

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MORISON ON VIETNAM

Admiral [[w:Samuel Eliot Morison|Samuel Eliot Morison]], one of the participants in the March 10 press conference sponsored by the Publishers’ Publicity Association, was asked, as a historian, his view on Vietnam. His answer: “I’m just standing by, hoping for a lead from the President that we haven’t had yet. Supposing that after consulting with his advisors he has made up his mind, I think that he ought to take the people into his confidence as [[w:Franklin D. Roosevelt|FDR]] in his [[w:Fireside chats|fireside chats]].”

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UNION BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.A.?

''The Oxford History of the American People'' (Oxford), and a Canadian newspaperman at the press conference asked the Admiral if he thought that union between the United States and Canada might ever come about. “I think that the only thing that could force any part of Canada into the United States would be the secession of Quebec,” he said. “If that happened the Maritime Provinces would be left out on a limb, and they might prefer to apply to the Unites States rather than be separated by Quebec.”

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A LITTLE-KNOWN LYNCHING

The March 10 press conference was held on a day of violence in [[w:Selma, Alabama|Selman]], Ala., and Admiral Morison was asked if he thought there was any possibility of a federal law to cover murder within the separate states. Admitting that it was a difficult question of constitutional law, he said he thought, “this is what should be done, and it is not just the rights of Negroes which are involved either.” Back in 1890, Admiral Morison said, a group of Italian citizens was lynched in New Orleans. The Italian government protested vehemently and even contemplated sending over the Italian navy, which at the time was stronger than ours, to lob shells on the cities of the eastern seaboard in retaliation. The United States government ended by paying an indemnity to the families of the victims.

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OPENING PARTY OF NBA WEEK

A number of authors of spring books were special guests of honor at the Publishers’ Publicity Association-Publishers Adclub cocktail party which opened National Book Awards week on March 8. One of the most sought-after and one of the most articulate was the young Negro writer, [[w:William Melvin Kelley|William Melvin Kelley]], author of ''A Different Drummer'', whose second novel, ''A Drop of Patience'' will be published by Doubleday on April 9. Mr. Kelley says he believes too many Negro writers succeed today because they beat white people over the head with their guilt and he, for one, does not want to be that kind of writer, although he has no illusions about the gravity of the racial crisis in the United States. Some Negro writers, Mr. Kelley said, have made themselves into kind of reverse court jesters for the white man.

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NO PULITZER FOR SWANBERG IN ‘65

Another guest at the March 8 NBA cocktail party was [[w:W. A. Swanberg|W.A. Swangerg]], whose biography of a few years ago, ''Citizen Hearst'', almost won a Pulitzer Prize. If they turned down Hearst, said Mr. Swanberg, they would doubly turn down ''Dreiser'' (his new biography coming from Scribners in April). The rules of the Pulitzer Prizes require that the biography award go to a book “teaching patriotic and unselfish services to the people,” as illustrated by the life of an eminent personage. One of the things that would disqualify Theodore Dreiser as a subject, Mr. Swanberg thought, was his love life. Out of over 20,000 Dreiser letters Mr. Swanberg read in his research literally thousands were written to women with whom he was romantically involved and some of them were “embarrassingly personal,” so much so that the names of several of the ladies have had to be fictionalized for the book.

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TOO MANY GO TO COLLEGE

[[w:John Keats (writer)|John Keats]]’ next book, ''The Sheepskin Psychosis'', is coming from Lippincott on May 17 and Mr. Keats was talking at the March 8 party about his convictions that too many, not too few, high school graduates go on to college. He started the book, he said, when after writing a long article for Life on college dropouts he found that he had 63 pages of close notes left over which he had never used. “I wish,” Mr. Keats said, “I could get The Sheepskin Psychosis into the hands of every high school senior, who would then read the book aloud to his parents. Just getting into college has become such a status symbol that it has assumed more importance than what a student is going to get out of going to college.” Mr. Keats thinks it might be a good idea if more high school graduates “just conked out for a year and took the time to decide if they really want to go on to college.”

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CONTRIBUTION

B. J. Chute, whose first collection of short stories since 1957, ''One Touch of Nature'', has just been published by Dutton, was one of the authors at the PPA’s press shindig. The stories in her new collection have been published in a variety of top magazines, and all were hard to sell to magazine editors, she said. She should know because she sold them all herself. “I have no agent for first rights, never have had,” she said. “I’m a hard bargainer, and I’d drive a clear-headed agent nuts.” Could this absence of an agent account for the long lag between her story collections? “It may be that my contribution to literature is that I have no agent,” she said.

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OFF SCHEDULE

If [[w:Richard Pike Bissell|Richard Bissell]] were on schedule right now, he would be working on the script of a musical of his novel, ''Goodbye, Ava'', so that he could then write a novel about his experiences producing the musical so that he could sell the whole bit to the movies (as he did with ''7 ½ cents''—''Pajama Game''—''Say Darling''). Instead, he has written a new book ''Still Circling Moosejaw'' (McGraw Hill). At the PPA affair, Mr. Bissell said that several efforts had been made at a musical based on “Goodbye, Ava” but that nothing had jelled yet. He said, too, that he might get further off schedule by undertaking an original script for a musical. Which might then go to the movies and then result in a book about the whole business? “Not bad, not a bad idea,” said Mr. Bissell.

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MORE FROM OPENING PARTY

Chatting with another author at the PPA-Adclub party, PW discovered that Richard Newcombe, author of the new ''Iwo Jima'' and two earlier exciting books about World War II and that some of his expertise in this kind of writing probably comes from the fact that he, himself, had a ship shot out from under him 39 days after he arrived in the South Pacific. Walter Lord, whose book about Mississippi and its racial conflicts is ''The Past That Will Not Die'' (Harper & Row, June 2), was busy telling visiting reviewers that he had a law school background (Yale) and that it came in very handy in doing the voluminous research for his new book. Mr. Lord didn’t know quite what to expect when he arrived in Mississippi, but he discovered, not without surprise, that “the white supremacist people like to talk,” often volubly.

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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|[[''An American Dream'' Expanded/''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965|''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
|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 letter from Mr. William Trotter to Mr. A. 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 ==
{{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: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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''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965

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[[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]]
|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
|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 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 ==
{{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: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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{{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|[[Advertising Copy]]
|File:19650322.1.jpg|[[An American Dream Expanded/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
}}
<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: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 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 ==
{{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: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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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)

== ''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]]
# [[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]]

:{{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))

Talk:An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-22T19:29:47Z

Dmcgonagill: reply to Josef

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)

== ''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]]
# [[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]]
# [[Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]]

:{{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))

An American Dream Expanded

2019-04-22T18:53:05Z

Dmcgonagill: move review out to review section

{{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==
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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|[[Advertising Copy]]
|File:19650322.1.jpg|[[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==
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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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