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 * {{Anchor|Bloom (1986)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Harold |date=1986 |title=Norman Mailer: Modern Critical Views |url= |location=New York |publisher=Chelsea House |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Sixteen reviews and essays covering Mailer’s major works and emphasizing the influence of Hemingway, with Bloom’s brief introduction.
 * {{Anchor|Bloom (2003)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Bloom |editor-first=Harold |editor-mask=1 |date=2003 |title=Norman Mailer: Critical Views |url= |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Chelsea House |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Thirteen reviews and essays focusing on Mailer’s later works.
+* {{Anchor|Bozung (2017)}}{{cite book |last=Bozung |first=Justin |date=2017 |title=The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film Is Life Death |url= |location=New York |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |page= |isbn= |author-link=Justin Bozung }} A collection of mixed contributions: essays and memoirs from critics, collaborators, and Mailer himself ([[67.21]] and [[71.25]]), some reprinted, but mostly original texts including many stills from Mailer’s films.
+* ((Anchor|Booth (1988)}}{{cite book |last=Booth |first=Wayne |date=1988 |title=The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction |url=https://archive.org/details/companywekeepeth0000boot |location=Berkeley and Los Angeles |publisher=University of California Press |page=207–210, 327–336 |isbn= |author-link= }} Useful to gauge how Mailer’s public image has alienated an important critic.
 * {{Anchor|Braudy (1991)}}{{cite book |last=Braudy |first=Leo |date=1991 |chapter=''Maidstone: A Mystery'' by Norman Mailer |title=Native Informant: Essays on Film, Fiction and Popular Culture |url=https://archive.org/details/nativeinformante00braurich |location=New York |publisher=Oxford |pages=60–63, 145–151 |isbn= |author-link= }} Rpt: [[#Adams (1974)|Adams (1974)]]. Informed comment on Mailer’s film and the Mailer-Pynchon dichotomy.
 * {{Anchor|Braudy (1972)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Braudy |editor-first=Leo |editor-mask=1 |date=1972 |title=Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays |url= |location=Englewood Cliffs, N.J. |publisher=Prentice-Hall |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Thirteen essays on Mailer’s work through ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' ([[71.1]]); includes Steven Marcus interview ([[64.1]]) and a thoughtful introduction with useful insights into ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago'' ([[68.25]]).
+* {{Anchor|Brookeman (1987)}}{{cite book |last=Brookeman |first=Christopher |date=1987 |chapter=Norman Mailer and Mass America |title=American Culture and Society Since the 1930s |url= |editor-last=Brookeman |editor-first=Christopher |location=New York |publisher=Schocken |pages=150–170 |isbn= |author-link= }} Staid overview of Mailer as “a personal index of American history since the Second World War.”
+* {{Anchor|Bryant (1970)}}{{cite book |last=Bryant |first=Jerry H. |date=1970 |chapter=The Moral Outlook |title=The Open Decision: The Contemporary American Novel and Its Intellectual Background |url= |location=New York |publisher=Free Press |pages=369–394 |isbn= |author-link= }} Authenticity, courage and the belief that “self-discovery must precede the establishment of satisfactory societies” in the early novels of Mailer.
+* {{Anchor|Bufithis (1986)}}{{cite book |last=Bufithis |first=Philip M. |date=1978 |title=Norman Mailer |series=Modern Literature Monographs |url= |location=New York |publisher=Ungar |page= |isbn= |author-link=Philip Bufithis }} Perhaps the most readable and reliable study of Mailer’s early work.
+* {{Anchor|Busch (1986)}}{{cite book |last=Busch |first=Frederick |date=1986 |chapter=The Whale as Shaggy Dog |title=When People Publish: Essays on Writers and Writing |url= |location=Iowa City |publisher=Iowa University Press |pages=65–82 |isbn= |author-link= }} Argues persuasively for the influence of ''Moby-Dick'' on “The Man Who Studied Yoga” ([[56.25]]). See [[51.2]].
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 * {{Anchor|Lennon (1986)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lennon |editor-first=J. Michael |date=1986 |title=Critical Essays on Norman Mailer |series=Critical Essays on American Literature |url= |location=Boston |publisher=G. K. Hall |page= |isbn= |author-link=J. Michael Lennon }} Ten reviews and ten essays, including two original ones: Robert F. Lucid’s overview of his proposed biography and Michael Cowan’s on Mailer’s Americanness. Introduction summarizes critical response to Mailer’s work.
 * {{Anchor|Lucid (1971)}}{{cite book |editor-last=Lucid |editor-first=Robert F. |date=1971 |title=Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work |url=https://archive.org/details/normanmailermana00luci |location=Boston |publisher=Little, Brown |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} First major collection of essays: 13 on his work, four on his life and Paul Carroll’s interview ([[68.1]]). Contains checklist of his work and important introduction in which Lucid attempts to resolve the apparent conflict between Mailer’s public and artistic activities.