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  “The Naked and the Dead” [Excerpt from unpublished 1942 play]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

Masthead

• EDITOR
  Phillip Sipiora
• ASSOCIATE EDITOR
  Gerald R. Lucas
• ASSISTANT EDITORS
  Raymond M.Vince
  Constance E. Holmes
• BIBLIOGRAPHERS
  Constance E. Holmes
  J. Michael Lennon
• RESEARCH ASSISTANT
  Kristine A.Wilson
• EDITORIAL BOARD
  J.Michael Lennon, Chair of Editorial Board (Wilkes University), Robert J. Begiebing (Southern New Hampshire University), John Whalen-Bridge (National University of Singapore), Philip Bufithis (Shepherd University), Christopher Busa (Founder and Editor of Provincetown Arts Press), Morris Dickstein (Graduate Center, City University of New York), Laura Adams Dunham (Independent Scholar), Michael Glenday (The Open University, United Kingdom), Hunt Hawkins (University of South Florida), Barry H. Leeds (Central Connecticut State University), Deborah Martinson (Occidental College), Michael Millgate (University of Toronto), Christopher Ricks (Boston University), Phillip Sipiora (University of South Florida), Thomas F. Staley (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin), Barbara Mailer Wasserman (Memoirist).