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This checklist picks up where ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: Works and Days]]'' (Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press 2000) by J. Michael and [[Donna Pedro Lennon]] left off at the end of 1998. It consists of chronologically listed entries of significant works by and about {{NM}} that have appeared from that time through 2006. In addition, entries for a number of items that appeared from 1980–1998, items unknown or unavailable to the Lennons at the time their bio-bibliography was published, have been added. This checklist is, therefore, a supplement to ''Works and Days'', although it cannot claim to be comprehensive. Many brief interviews, joint letters to the editor, ephemera, and Mailer quotations of uncertain authenticity in the popular press and Internet have been passed over; others have certainly been missed. Doubtless some significant secondary works have not been located. Entries for these and for the continuing stream of narratives, essays, interviews, poems, letters to the editor, and drawings by Mailer will eventually be gathered, it is hoped, into a successor volume to ''Works and Days''. Annotations have been provided for all items by Mailer, but not for most secondary items. Apology is made to those whose essays or monographs about and interviews with Mr. Mailer have escaped attention. | This checklist picks up where ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: Works and Days]]'' (Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press 2000) by J. Michael and [[Donna Pedro Lennon]] left off at the end of 1998. It consists of chronologically listed entries of significant works by and about {{NM}} that have appeared from that time through 2006. In addition, entries for a number of items that appeared from 1980–1998, items unknown or unavailable to the Lennons at the time their bio-bibliography was published, have been added. This checklist is, therefore, a supplement to ''Works and Days'', although it cannot claim to be comprehensive. Many brief interviews, joint letters to the editor, ephemera, and Mailer quotations of uncertain authenticity in the popular press and Internet have been passed over; others have certainly been missed. Doubtless some significant secondary works have not been located. Entries for these and for the continuing stream of narratives, essays, interviews, poems, letters to the editor, and drawings by Mailer will eventually be gathered, it is hoped, into a successor volume to ''Works and Days''. Annotations have been provided for all items by Mailer, but not for most secondary items. Apology is made to those whose essays or monographs about and interviews with Mr. Mailer have escaped attention. | ||
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{{cite book |last=Whalen-Bridge |first=John |date=2003 |chapter=Norman Mailer |title=American Novelists Since World War II: Seventh Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography |volume=278 |editor1-last=Giles |editor1-first=James R. |editor2-last=Giles |editor2-first=Wanda H. |location=Detroit |publisher=Thompson Gale |pages=217–32 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Includes Mailer bibliography. | {{cite book |last=Whalen-Bridge |first=John |date=2003 |chapter=Norman Mailer |title=American Novelists Since World War II: Seventh Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography |volume=278 |editor1-last=Giles |editor1-first=James R. |editor2-last=Giles |editor2-first=Wanda H. |location=Detroit |publisher=Thompson Gale |pages=217–32 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Includes Mailer bibliography. | ||
== 2004 == | |||
=== Primary === | |||
==== Books and Pamphlets ==== | |||
''Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969''. Edited by J. Michael Lennon. Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press, August 2004. Dedication: “For Donna, Stephen, Joseph and James. With a special appreciation for the students of English 397, Norman Mailer Seminar, at Wilkes University.” 124 pp., $150. Limited, numbered edition of 110, signed by Mr. Mailer and editor. A compilation of 76 letters to family, friends, literary associates, and admirers concerning the 1964 serial publication in ''Esquire'' of Mailer’s fourth novel, its subsequent publication in revised form by Dial Press in 1965, and the 1966 Warner Brothers film version. Contains 14 illustrations (10 in color), four appendices, critical introduction, and index. Advance excerpt of nine letters appeared in ''Provincetown Arts'' 19 (summer 2004), 109–13. | |||
==== Essays, poems, forewords, prefaces, introductions, symposia contributions, letters to the editor ==== | |||
[Comment on the passing of George Plimpton]. ''Harvard Advocate'' 140, no. 2 (winter 2004), 13. Memorial number. Mailer, who acted in “Zelda, Scott and Ernest” with Plimpton and his wife, Norris Church Mailer, at least a dozen times, lauds Plimpton as “the best gentleman most of us ever got to know.” | |||
“Immodest Proposals.” ''Playboy'', January 2004, 90–94, 198, 266, 268, 270, 272. 50th Anniversary Issue. Long essay outlining a platform for the Democrats in the 2004 election, including ideas on corporations, taxes, education, the environment, drug decriminalization, abortion, gay marriage, homeland security, the war in Iraq, and foreign policy. | |||
Preface to ''The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita: The Adventures of an Actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome'', by Mickey Knox, 1–5. New York: Nation Books, 1 April 2004. Knox, one of Mailer’s oldest friends, appeared in two of his experimental films in the 1960s, and the 1967 off-Broadway production of Mailer’s play, ''The Deer Park''. Mailer discusses Knox’s brilliant performance in the play, his screen work, his reputation as a lover, and his overseas work as a dialogue coach after being blacklisted during the Red scare of the late 1950s. | |||
“The Election and America’s Future.” ''New York Review of Books'', 4 November 2004, 6–17. Mailer is one of 14 individuals, including Russell Baker, Anthony Lewis, Thomas Powers, and Garry Wills, who contributed to this symposium. His 1200-word contribution, on pp. 13–14, is divided into two parts. The first deals with the spiritual condition of the U.S.A., a “guilty nation” and why 9/11 “was the jackpot” for Pres. Bush and Karl Rove, concluding with advice for John Kerry in the upcoming presidential debates. The second part, written after the first debate, is more optimistic, but ends with the lines: “Perhaps it is no longer Jesus or Allah who oversees our fate but the turn of the Greek gods to take another run around the track. When it comes to destiny, they were the first, after all, to conceive of the Ironies.” | |||
==== Interviews ==== | |||
“Norman Mailer on the Media and the Message.” Interview by Margo Hammond. ''Poynterline'' 6, February 2004. Crisp discussion of the relationship of journalism and fiction, with comments on Hemingway, Henry Miller, and Tom Wolfe. | |||
“Father to Son: What I’ve Learned about Rage.” By Norman and John Buffalo Mailer. ''New York'', 9 August 2004, 28–35. Cover Story (with editor’s title). In this lengthy conversation between Mailer and his youngest son, the chief topic is the upcoming Republican convention in New York and how protests against it might aid or injure the Democrats. Also considered: the antiVietnam War protests, Sen. McCain, Pres. Bush, Sen. Kerry, Pat Buchanan, and American corporations. | |||
{{" '}}A Certain Grim Pleasure’: Norman Mailer Speaks with Longtime Friend James Toback about Film.” ''V Life'' 397 (December 2004–January 2005), 76– 79, 114–15. In a wide-ranging discussion on film and the horrors of modern life, Mailer also explains how the writing process has changed for him over the years: “I used to pride myself on the white heat of my first drafts . . . now it’s not like that. My first drafts are much below the final product.” | |||
=== Secondary === | |||
{{cite journal |last=Castronovo |first=David |title=Norman Mailer as Midcentury Advertisement |url= |journal=New England Review |volume=24 |issue=4 |date=2004 |pages= |access-date= |ref=harv }} Important essay. | |||
{{cite book |last=Cohen |first=Rachel |date=2004 |title=A Chance Meeting: Intertwined Lives of American Writers and Artists |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages=236–44, 290–296, 304–309 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} 363 pp., indexed. | |||
{{cite web |url=https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2882 |title=Norman Mailer |last=Kich |first=Martin |date=2004 |website=The Literary Encyclopedia |publisher= |access-date=2004-06-07 |quote= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite book |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |date=2004 |chapter=Norman Mailer’s ''The Naked and the Dead'' |title=Ameri- can Writers Classics, v. II |editor-last=Parini |editor-first=Jay |url= |location=Detroit |publisher=Thomson Gale |pages=233–50 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Includes bibliography of novel. | |||
== 2005 == | |||
=== Primary === | |||
==== Books and Pamphlets ==== | |||
''Norman Mailer’s Provincetown: The Wild West of the East''. Edited by J. Michael Lennon. Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Arts Press, 2005. 12 pp., $10. Limited edition. Contains five evocations of Mailer’s Provincetown, and Lennon’s introduction. | |||
==== Essays, poems, forewords, prefaces, introductions, symposia contributions, letters to the editor ==== | |||
“America and Its War with the Invisible Kingdom of Satan.” ''Sunday Times'', 23 January 2005. Essay on the narratives offered by the Bush Administration to explain “why we were so obviously hell-bent for war.” | |||
“Sartre’s God Problem.” ''Nation'' 280 (6 June 2005), 30, 32. Mailer mixes his praise of Sartre with criticism of his atheism. See next entry. | |||
“God and Man and Mailer.” Letter to the Editor. ''Nation'' 280 (15–22 August 2005). Mailer responds to several letters disagreeing with his comments on Sartre in the 6 June 2005 ''Nation'' (see above), calling all but one of them, “as ad hominem as mosquitoes.” | |||
==== Interviews ==== | |||
“Mailer v. Mailer: Norman Mailer Talks with His Son, John Buffalo Mailer, about the Sport of Boxing.” ''Stop Smiling'' No. 20 (early 2005), 38–43, 91. Mailer’s most extended discussion of boxing in an interview. | |||
“Mailer’s Miscellany: Author Sells His Archives to the University of Texas.” Article-interview by Douglas Brinkley. ''New York Times'', 26 April 2005, E1, E7. Mailer answers questions on the scope and organization of his papers, and why they were going to the Harry Ransom Humanities Center of the University of Texas. | |||
“Mailer Gives Archives to Ransom Center.” Article-interview by Yashoda Sampath. ''Daily Texan'', 26 April 2005, 1, 2A. More detail on the Mailer papers. | |||
“Norman Mailer: The Last Buccaneer Looks Back.” Article-interview by Douglas Brinkley. ''Rolling Stone'', Nos. 977/978 (30 June–14 July, 2005), 84–85, 88, 90, 92, 94–95, 162, 166. Retrospective look at Mailer’s career on the occasion of the sale of his papers to the University of Texas. | |||
“Mailer’s Papers Come to Texas.” Article-interview by unidentified author. ''Ransom News'' (newsletter of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas) 13 (winter 2005), 1, 8. Mailer explains why he sold the papers to Texas and what they might be used for in the future. | |||
Interview by Sue Fox. ''Sunday Times Magazine'' (London), 19 November 2006, 7. Sunday, Features. | |||
=== Secondary === | |||
{{cite news |last=Graham |first=Don |date=November 2005 |title=You've Got Mailer |url= |work=Texas Monthly |pages=94, 96, 105, 108 |access-date= |ref=harv }} Another account, with some errors, of the sale of the Mailer papers. | |||
== 2006 == | |||
=== Primary === | |||
==== Books and Pamphlets ==== | |||
''The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America''. With John Buffalo Mailer. New York: Nation Books, February 2006. Series of conversations between the Mailers, father and son, 218 pp., $14.95. Dedication: “To a lovely lady — Norris Church Mailer.” Soft cover. Some of the conversations in this collection appeared in a different form in various magazines, including ''New York Times'' and ''Stop Smiling'' (see above). | |||
==== Interviews ==== | |||
“A Conversation with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Marcia Karp. ''ALSC Newsletter'' (publication of the American Association of Scholars and Critics), 12 (winter 2006), 10–11. Excerpts from the keynote event of the 2005 ALSC conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at which J. Michael Lennon interviewed Mailer. | |||
“Still Punching.” Interview with Howard Halle. ''Time Out New York'', 2–8 March, 2006, 160. Mailer talks about the “basic emptiness in the country” on the occasion of the publication of ''The Big Empty''. | |||
“Fallen God of Small Things.” Article-interview by Daniel Swift. ''Financial Times'' (London), 15–16 April 2006. In a piece focused on ''The Big Empty'', Mailer also talks about his earlier works and the current American malaise generally. | |||
“Flag-waving U.S. Shows Signs of Totalitarianism.” Interview with Takaaki Misuno. Asahi Shimbun (English language edition, Tokyo), 14 September 2006, 28. Focuses on the threat to democracy created by the War in Iraq, and also contains first notice of the subject of Mailer’s forthcoming novel, ''The Castle in the Forest''. | |||
“Relative Values: Norman Mailer and His Son John.” Interview by Sue Fox. ''Sunday Times Magazine'' (London), 19 November 2006, 7, 9, 11. Father and son discuss growing up as a Mailer. | |||
=== Secondary === | |||
{{cite journal |last=Adamowski |first=T. H. |title=Demoralizing Liberalism: Lionel Trilling, Leslie Fiedler, and Norman Mailer |url= |journal=University of Toronto Quarterly |volume=75 |issue=3, summer |date=2006 |pages=883–904 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Hephzibah |last2=McCrum |first2=Robert |date=31 December 2006 |title=In with the new . . . : An extraordinary number of the novels coming our way in 2007 deal with war |page=19 |work=Observer |location=London |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |last=Aspden |first=Rachael |date=18 December 2016 |title=''THE NS GUIDE TO'': What you’ll be reading in 2007 |url= |work=New Statesman |volume=135 |issue=4823 |page=89 |location= |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=7 December 2006 |title=At the End of the Book |url= |work=New York Times |location=Thursday, Late Edition—Final, Section A; Column 1 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |last=Bosman |first=Julie |date=5 December 2006 |title=Loved His New Novel, and What a Bibliography |url= |work=New York Times |location=Tuesday, Late Edition—Final, Section E, Column 5, The Arts/Cultural Desk |page=1 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=1 December 2006 |title=''The Castle in the Forest'' |url= |work=Kirkus Reviews |location= |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=6 November 2006 |title=The Castle in the Forest |url= |work=Publishers Weekly Reviews |page=36 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite book |last=Denham |first=Alice |date=2006 |title=Sleeping with Bad Boys: A Juicy Tell-all of Literary New York in the 1950s and 1960s |url= |location=New York |publisher=Book Republic Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Includes chapters on Mailer. | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=3 December 2006 |title=Devilish Mailer Eye on Hitler |url= |work=New York Post |location=Sunday |page=12 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |last=Donadio |first=Rachael |date=19 November 2006 |title=Art of the Feud |url= |work=New York Times |location=Sunday, Late Edition—Final, Section 7; Column 1 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite journal |last=Duguid |first=Scott |title=The Addiction of Masculinity: Norman Mailer's ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' and the Cultural Politics of Reaganism |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=23–30 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=25 August 2006 |title=First Norman Mailer Novel in 10 Years to Be Released in January |url= |work=Associated Press |location=Friday 5:11 PM GMT, Entertainment News, New York |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |last=Helicher |first=Karl |title=The Big Empty Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America |url= |work=Library Journal Reviews |date=15 January 2006 |page=136 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite journal |last=Howley |first=Ashton |title=Mailer Again: Heterophobia in ‘Tough Guys Don’t Dance’ |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=31–46 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=24 September 2006 |title=It Was Intuition I’d Never Been Here Before |url= |work=The Sunday Independent |location=Ireland. Sunday |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite journal |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |title=Norman Mailer: Novelist, Journalist, or Historian? |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=91–103 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite book |last=Levy |first=Bernard-Henri |date=2006 |title=American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} 287 pp. Includes Levy’s account of his visit with Mailer in Provincetown, and the mistaken notion that Tim Madden, the hero of ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'', is gay. | |||
{{cite journal |last=McDonald |first=Brian |title=Post-Holocaust Theodicy, American Imperialism, and the ‘Very Jewish Jesus’ of Norman Mailer’s ''The Gospel According to the Son'' |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=78–90 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=26 August 2006 |title=Norman Mailer to Release New Novel |url= |work=The Commercial Appeal |location=Memphis, TN. A2, Saturday, Final Edition, News |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=30 August 2006 |title=Names in the News |url= |work=Ms Best Books |location=Wednesday |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite book |last1=Ott-Tolz |first1=Phyllis Silverman |last2=Scott |first2=Barbara Bamberger |date=2006 |title=Love Bade Me Welcome: The Life of Phyllis Ott |url= |location=Lake Forest, CA |publisher=Behler Publications |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Memoir of the sister of Mailer’s first wife Beatrice Silverman containing several reminiscences of Mailer in the 1940s and 1950s, including visits to the Silverman home in Chelsea, Massachusetts. | |||
{{cite journal |last=Partridge |first=Jeffrey F. L. |title=''The Gospel According to the Sun'' and Christian Belief |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=64–77 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite journal |last=Rampton |first=David |title=Plexed Artistry: The Formal Case for Mailer’s ''Harlot’s Ghost'' |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=47–63 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |last=Rich |first=Motoko |date=26 August 2006 |title=Mailer’s Next Novel |url= |work=New York Times |location=Saturday, Late Edition—Final, Section B; Column 5 |page=8 |ref=harv }} Compiled by Ben Sisario. | |||
{{cite journal |last=Ryan |first=James Emmett |title=‘Insatiable as God Old America’: ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' and Popular Criminality |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=17–22 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite magazine |last=St. John |first=Edward B. |date=15 December 2006 |title=''The Castle in the Forest'' |url= |magazine=Library Journal Reviews |page=112 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=Sun Wire Services |date=26 August 2006 |title=New Mailer Novel in Jan |url= |work=Winnipeg Sun |location=Manitoba. Saturday, Final Edition Entertainment |page=41 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |author=<!--none stated--> |date=4 August 2006 |title=Top 100 Books |url= |work=The Express |location=Friday. U.K. 1st Edition, News |page=27 |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite book |last=West |first=James L. W., III |date=1998 |title=William Styron: A Life |url= |location=New York |publisher=Random House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Mailer’s relations with Styron and James Jones are discussed at length in chapter 21, “Mailer and Others,” based in part on an interview with Mailer. | |||
{{cite journal |last=Whalen-Bridge |first=John |title=The Karma of Words: Mailer since ''Executioner’s Song'' |url= |journal=Journal of Modern Literature |volume=30 |issue=1, fall |date=2006 |pages=1–16 |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
{{cite news |last=Zane |first=J. Peder |date=3 December 2006 |title=Hot Books for a Cold Winter |url= |work=The News & Observer |location=Raleigh, North Carolina, G4. Sunday, Final Edition, Arts & Entertainment. |access-date= |ref=harv }} | |||
== References == | |||
* Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography, accessed via EBSCO Publishing Research Host: http:www.ebscohost.com. Extensive listing of books, book articles, journal articles, dissertation abstracts, both English language and foreign language. Some overlap of important works listed herein; excellent source of foreign materials and dissertation abstracts found nowhere else. Generally available via universities and other institutions which subscribe to literary databases. | |||
* Literature Online biography—Norman Mailer | |||
* The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story: Norman Mailer (1923– ) | |||
* Encyclopedia of the Novel: Norman Mailer (1923– ) (United States) | |||
== Web Sites == | |||
* [http://normanmailersociety.org The Norman Mailer Society] | |||
* [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/norman-mailer-a-brief-history-of-norman-mailer/653/ American Masters] | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040929085732/http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/mailer.html New York State Writers Institute] | |||
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