The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008

Norman Mailer: 1923–2007

Contents

• Reflections

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

Masthead

• EDITOR
  Phillip Sipiora
• DEPUTY EDITOR
  Gerald R. Lucas
• MANAGING EDITOR
  Constance E. Holmes
• ASSOCIATE EDITORS
  Shannon L. Zinck
  James R.Miller
  Raymond M. Vince
• ADVISORY EDITOR
  Carol Holmes
• RESEARCH EDITOR
  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).