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It is with great pleasure that we launch the Inaugural Issue of ''[[The Mailer Review]]''. I emphasize “we” because the editorial staff experienced the pangs of delivery in bringing a multidimensional journal into existence. A significant number of midwives were required. [[J. Michael Lennon|Mike Lennon]], President of the [[Norman Mailer Society]] and Chair of the Editorial Board, was instrumental in providing his steadfast support for what was only a dream but one short year ago. Indeed, at last October’s annual conference his driving enthusiasm was instrumental in articulating the importance of an author’s journal to the Mailer Society membership. Mike Lennon was and is strategically critical to brainstorming this and future issues, mapping out thematic topics and approaches, and generously sharing his many contacts with Mailer scholars and friends around the world. Hunt Hawkins, USF Chair of English, has been exceptionally supportive and enthusiastic from the moment of conception, as has been John Skvoretz, University of South Florida Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. I am particularly grateful to [[Norman Mailer]] for giving his approval to the founding of the ''Review''. Although Mr. Mailer has no financial or editorial connections to the ''Review'', his intellectual and artistic presence over six decades is the force that made this endeavor possible. My special thanks to Susan Beegel, Editor of ''The Hemingway Review'', for her sage counsel.

{{dc|dc=I|t is with great pleasure}} that we launch the Inaugural Issue of ''[[The Mailer Review]]''. I emphasize “we” because the editorial staff experienced the pangs of delivery in bringing a multidimensional journal into existence. A significant number of midwives were required. [[J. Michael Lennon|Mike Lennon]], President of the [[Norman Mailer Society]] and Chair of the Editorial Board, was instrumental in providing his steadfast support for what was only a dream but one short year ago. Indeed, at last October’s annual conference his driving enthusiasm was instrumental in articulating the importance of an author’s journal to the Mailer Society membership. Mike Lennon was and is strategically critical to brainstorming this and future issues, mapping out thematic topics and approaches, and generously sharing his many contacts with Mailer scholars and friends around the world. Hunt Hawkins, USF Chair of English, has been exceptionally supportive and enthusiastic from the moment of conception, as has been John Skvoretz, University of South Florida Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. I am particularly grateful to [[Norman Mailer]] for giving his approval to the founding of the ''Review''. Although Mr. Mailer has no financial or editorial connections to the ''Review'', his intellectual and artistic presence over six decades is the force that made this endeavor possible. My special thanks to Susan Beegel, Editor of ''The Hemingway Review'', for her sage counsel.

Our editorial staff includes extraordinarily talented and dedicated veteran and emerging scholars: Associate Editor [[Gerald Lucas]], Assistant Editors [[Raymond Vince]] and [[Constance Holmes]], English staff Deedra Hickman and Daniel Kanouff. A special nod to [[Carol Holmes]] for her sharp eye. Further, there are numerous Society members who graciously offered their wise counsel: U.S. Congressman [[Neil Abercrombie]], [[Allen Ahearn|Allen]] and [[Patricia Ahearn|Pat Ahearn]], [[Bob Begiebing]], [[Philip Bufithis]], [[Chris Busa]], Tara Carlin, [[Barry Leeds]], [[Don Kaufmann]], [[Lawrence Schiller|Larry Schiller]], [[Barbara Mailer Wasserman]], [[John Whalen-Bridge]], and many others.

Our editorial staff includes extraordinarily talented and dedicated veteran and emerging scholars: Associate Editor [[Gerald Lucas]], Assistant Editors [[Raymond Vince]] and [[Constance E. Holmes|Constance Holmes]], English staff Deedra Hickman and Daniel Kanouff. A special nod to [[Carol Holmes]] for her sharp eye. Further, there are numerous Society members who graciously offered their wise counsel: U.S. Congressman [[Neil Abercrombie]], [[Allen Ahearn|Allen]] and [[Patricia Ahearn|Pat Ahearn]], [[Bob Begiebing]], [[Philip Bufithis]], [[Chris Busa]], Tara Carlin, [[Barry Leeds]], [[Don Kaufmann]], [[Lawrence Schiller|Larry Schiller]], [[Barbara Mailer Wasserman]], [[John Whalen-Bridge]], and many others.

[[File:Lennon Lucid 2004.jpeg|thumb|Mike Lennon and Robert Lucid at the Mailer Society Conference, 2004.]]

[[File:Lennon Lucid 2004.jpeg|thumb|500px|Mike Lennon and Robert Lucid at the Mailer Society Conference, 2004.]]

It is with great sadness that we observe the recent passing of [[Robert F. Lucid]] (1930–2006), a dear friend to so many Mailer enthusiasts, colleagues, and the students he so loved for so long. The Inaugural Issue of the ''Review'' is dedicated to Bob Lucid. When I last spoke to him in October of 2006 at the Mailer Symposium at the University of Texas Ransom Center, he said that he had high hopes for the success of the ''Review'' and he enthusiastically agreed to let us publish an excerpt from his unfinished, authorized biography of Mailer, which appears in this issue.

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I am deeply honored and humbled to have been appointed founding editor of ''The Mailer Review''. With this honor comes much responsibility, not only to you, today’s readers, but to the readers, enthusiasts, and scholars of tomorrow. Thoughtful consideration of and respect for Mr. Mailer and his family, as well as the Mailer community of scholars, friends, and admirers, is integral to the mission of ''The Mailer Review''. Mindful of my obligation to publish the finest writing and images available, I will do my best to nourish and sustain ''The Mailer Review'' so that it will be the very best that it can be.

~~''[[Phillip Sipiora]]''~~