The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007

«	The Mailer Review • Volume 1 Number 1 • 2007 • Inaugural Issue	»

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“The Naked and the Dead” [Excerpt from unpublished 1942 play]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

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

Constance E. Holmes and J. Michael Lennon
Norman Mailer: Supplemental Bibliography Through 2000

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).