The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007

Inaugural Issue

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  “The Naked and the Dead” [Excerpt from unpublished 1942 play]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