The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007

Inaugural Issue
Volume 1 | Number 1 | Fall 2007

Contents

• Reflections

Articles

• Norman Mailer
  Remembering a Good Friend
• William Kennedy
  Norman Mailer as Occasional Commentator in a Self-Interview and Memoir
• Robert F. Lucid
  [Boston State Hospital: The Summer of 1942]
• Norman Mailer
  “The Naked and the Dead” [Excerpt from unpublished 1942 play]

J. Michael Lennon, editor “A Series of Tragicomedies”: Mailer’s Letters on The Deer Park, 1954–55 Philip Bufithis The Executioner’s Song: A Life Beneath our Conscience Jeffrey Severs The Untold Story Behind The Executioner’s Song: A Conversation with Lawrence Schiller Morris Dickstein How Mailer Became “Mailer”: The Writer as Private and Public Character J. Michael Lennon Gallery Talk: The Mailer Archive Cathy Henderson, Richard W. Oram, Molly Schwartzburg, and Molly Hardy Mailer Takes on America: Images from the Ransom Center Archive Barbara Mailer Wasserman Growing Up with Norman Jonathan Middlebrook Five Notes Toward a Reassessment of Norman Mailer Alan Petigny Norman Mailer, “The White Negro,” and New Conceptions of the Self in Postwar America Classic Interpretations Donald L. Kaufmann An American Dream: The Singular Nightmare Book Reviews The Castle in the Forest Christopher Ricks The Devil only Knows The Castle in the Forest Robert Begiebing Castle Mailer The Castle in the Forest Barbara Probst Solomon Mailer’s Choice The Castle in the Forest Phillip Sipiora Moments of Metaphor in Mailer’s Castle Bibliography Constance, E. Holmes and J. Michael Lennon Norman Mailer: Supplemental Bibliography Through 2000