The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008

Norman Mailer: 1923–2007

Contents

• Reflections

In Memorium

• Carnegie Hall Memorial
• The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer
• Gina Centrello
  Remembering Norman Mailer
• Charlie Rose
  Norman at the Table
• Günter Grass
  Taking Leave of Norman
• William Kennedy
  A Late Lunch
• Tina Brown
  Tribute to Mailer
• Barbara Wasserman
  The Mystery of Norman Mailer
• Sam Radin
  Norman Mailer: A Warrior’s Life
• Peter Alson
  One More for the Road
• Susan Mailer
  Tapestry
• Danielle Mailer
  Oysters
• Elizabeth Mailer
  I See You
• Kate Mailer
  The Knife’s Edge
• Michael Mailer
  Shadow Boxing with Pop
• Stephen Mailer
  Channeling Norman Mailer
• Maggie Mailer
  Fellow Geniuses
• Matthew Mailer
  Blessings
• John Buffalo Mailer
  Our Duty
• Don DeLillo
  The Writer in Opposition
• J. Michael Lennon
  The Novel Was All
• David Ebershoff
  Mailer Remembered
• Neil Abercrombie
  Norman Mailer: Ambush at the Center
• Ivan Fisher
  A Night at Elaine’s
• Lawrence Schiller
  The Boxer and the Rabbi
• Sean Penn
  The Towering and the Dead
• Lonnie Ali
  A Tribute to Norman Mailer

Tributes

• Lynn Andriani
  Norman Mailer: A Prolific Life to the End
• Robert J. Begiebing
  Mailer on the Eve of Ancient Evenings: A Memory in Six Parts
• Mashey Bernstein
  My Friend, Norman
• John Bowers
  Mailer
• Jackson R. Bryer
  A Generous Man
• Christopher Busa
  This Is a Town Worth Digging In and Fighting For
• Ezra Cappell
  Norman Mailer: A Man of Letters Inspired by the People of the Book
• E. L. Doctorow
  Two Notes on Mailer
• Laura Adams Dunham
  Entangled Minds: Forty Years of Encountering Norman Mailer
• Dick Fontaine
  The Time of His/Our Time: Chance Meetings with Norman Mailer
• Richard Lee Fulgham
  A Grasshopper’s Lament
• Michael K. Glenday
  Above All, He Was Never Afraid
• Lawrence Grobel
  Nobel Worthy Norman Mailer
• Alexander Hicks
  A 25th Anniversary Toast
• Eugene Cullen Kennedy
  Another Look at Norman Mailer, Fascinated with God and Religion
• Barry H. Leeds
  The Death of Norman Mailer; The Birth of The Norman Mailer Society
• Donna Pedro Lennon
  Losing My Voice
• Peter Levenda
  In Memoriam
• David Light
  From a Novelist in Waiting
• Deborah Martinson
  Despite Our Differences
• Michael Millgate
  Norman Mailer: A Memorial Gesture
• Stephan Morrow
  Norman Mailer: A Requiem
• Julian Newman
  1972: Norman Mailer Parties with Offbeat Tampans
• Mark Olshaker
  Let Me Now Praise Famous Men
• Kathrin Perutz
  After Mailer: Some Recollections
• Tom Piazza
  Norman Mailer: A Remembrance
• Dotson Rader
  The Bishop and Norman Mailer
• Lee Siegel
  Valentine’s Day
• Phillip Sipiora Jr.
  Norman Mailer, Baseball Man
• Barbara Probst Solomon
  A Long Friendship
• Richard Stratton
  Living Mailer
• Gay Talese
  Chronicler of the Century Did It All
• Marc S. Triplett
  The Passing of Aquarius
• John Whalen-Bridge
  Q&A in 1984 with Norman Mailer
• Veronica Windholz
  Reading Mailer in Brooklyn

Articles, Interviews, Miscellany

• Norman Mailer
  What’s Wrong with America: Five Proposals
• Norman Mailer
  Acceptance Speech for National Book Foundation Award
• Norman Mailer
  The Bodily Function Blues
• Philip Roth
  [Norman Mailer, from Exit Ghost]
• Robert J. Begiebing and Philip Bufithis
  A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels
• Christopher Hitchens
  Norman Mailer: Miami and the Siege of Chicago
• J. Michael Lennon
  Norman Mailer’s Best Sellers
• Stephan Morrow
  The Unknown and the General
• Donald L. Kaufmann
  Norman Mailer in “God’s Attic”
• Richard Stratton
  Meeting Mailer
• John Whalen-Bridge
  “Their Humor Annoyed Him”: Cavalier Wit and Sympathy for the Devil in The Castle in the Forest
• Walter Grünzweig
  The Hitler Family: A Relational Approach to Norman Mailer
• Richard Lee Fulgham
  The Wise Blood of Norman Mailer: An Interpretation and Defense of Why Are We in Vietnam?
• Michael K. Glenday
  From Monroe to Picasso: Norman Mailer and the Life-Study
• Lawrence R. Broer
  Identity Crisis: A State of the Union Address
• Mashey Bernstein
  The Heart of the Nation: Jewish Values in the Fiction of Norman Mailer
• Barry H. Leeds
  He Was a Fighter: Boxing in Norman Mailer’s Life and Work
• John G. Rodwan Jr.
  Fighters and Writers
• Michael Chaiken
  Author, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer
• J. Michael Lennon
  The Castle in the Forest: A Conversation with Norman Mailer
• Lawrence Grobel
  Norman Mailer: Stupidity Brings Out Violence in Me
• David Anshen
  A New Politics of Form in Harlot’s Ghost
• Neil Gordon
  On The Armies of the Night
• K. D. Norris
  Exhuming Mailer’s America

Classic Interpretation

• Christopher Ricks
  Norman Mailer: The Executioner’s Song

Book Reviews

• On God: An Uncommon Conversation
  John Bowers
  Mailer’s Last Words
• On God: An Uncommon Conversation
  Eugene Cullen Kennedy
  You Are Too Healthy for the World
• On God: An Uncommon Conversation
  Phillip Sipiora
  Norman Mailer, Metaphysician at Work

Creative Works

• Robbin A. Martinelli
  Mailer’s Song
• Daniele Pantano
  Mailer at the Théâtre Du Grand Guignol
• Daniela Feliciani
  AmDream

Bibliography

• J. Michael Lennon
  Norman Mailer, First Editions, 1948–2007
• J. Michael Lennon
  Abbreviations for Works of Norman Mailer
• Constance E. Holmes and Kristine A. Wilson
  Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2007