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|File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer. | |File:Saturday Review.jpg|Cover of 20 March 1965 ''Saturday Review'' depicting Mailer. | ||
|File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position. | |File:AAD-Bestsellers.jpg|Best seller list in ''Book Week'', 30 May 1965, showing the novel in No. 10 position. | ||
|File:19650418.JPG|Best Seller list in ''New York Times'', April 15, 1965, showing the novel in No. 3 position and in No. 5 position in the ''London'' edition. | |||
|File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965. | |File:19650315-Invitation.png|Invitation to the reception for the novel at the Village Vanguard in New York on publication day, 15 March 1965. | ||
|File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''. | |File:19660829-Invitation-Screening.png|An invitation to the screening of the film ''An American Dream''. | ||
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|File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position. | |File:PW_May_1965.JPG|Best seller list of the week in ''Publishers Weekly'', May 1965, showing ''[[An American Dream]]'' in No. 6 position. | ||
|File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964 | |File:19640302_Rights_and_Permissions.JPG|Announcement of Warner Brothers studios purchasing the movie rights to ''[[An American Dream]]'', March 2, 1964 | ||
|File: | |File:19650316 1.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Advertising Copy|Advertising Copy]] for the ''New York Times'', March 15, 1965 | ||
|File:19650322 Publishers Weekly 5.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Publishers Weekly March 22, 1965|Q&A in ''Publishers Weekly'' March 22, 1965]] | |||
|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |[[An American Dream Expanded/Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, Herald Tribune April 1, 1965|Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, ''Herald Tribune'' April 1, 1965]] | |||
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|File:19650401 Herald Tribune.JPG |Mailer hosts party for Jose Torres, | |||
|File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965 | |File:1650403.JPG|''The New Republic'' April 3, 1965 | ||
|File:20190302 | |File:20190302 SOI parts 1.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965|Scene: Inside an Army Tent in Vietnam March 22, 1965]] | ||
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|File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963) | |File:1963-AAD-Snippet.jpg|“I’ll finish my book in another year of bleeding at the typewriter,” Norman Mailer sighed at the Spindletop the other night. (1963) | ||
|File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963) | |File:1963-NYW.jpg|'''Norman Mailer''' has just come into a large chunk of money. Dial, the book publishers, have given him a reported $125,000 for the rights to his as yet untitled and unwritten novel. . . . (1963) | ||
|File: | |File:20190302 HarperPlan.JPG|''Harper’s'' plan an anthology of Norman Mailer criticism. | ||
|File:20190302 002 .JPG|John Braine states that “the only first-rate novelist is Norman Mailer” publishing in 1965. | |||
|File:19650130.jpg|Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' (Dial Press) is reviewed on the cover of the March 14th issue of ''Book Week'' by Tom Wolfe. . . . He is unique—there is no other word for Wolfe. . . . His essay on Mailer’s first novel in nine years is no exception. I think you will find it the most extraordinary review you’ve read in recent memory. | |||
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|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. | |File:Trotter Letter 1965.jpg|A 1965 [[An American Dream Expanded/Trotter Letter, March 14, 1965|letter from William Trotter]] in support of Mailer. | ||
|File:19650923-Mary.Bancroft.Letter.JPG|Mary Bancroft offers her strong support for Mailer in this 1965 letter. | |||
|File:19650417 Letter.jpg|Granville Hicks, in his review of Norman Mailer’s ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', March 20], tells us that Mailer’s main character has no reality, the other characters are “dummies,” the writing is sloppy, and the plot is absurd. One might say the same about Dostoevsky’s ''Notes from the Underground''. Perhaps ''An American Dream'' is not a great book, but it is most certainly not a “bad joke.” It contains scenes of great power and pages of brilliant imagery. It holds one’s interest. It is an entertaining book to read. ~W. K. Mason, Madison, Wis. | |||
|File:BillPowers SaturdayReview Page1.jpg|In his [[An American Dream Expanded/Definition of Selfhood|letter to the ''Saturday Review'']] (June 5, 1965), Bill Powers responds to criticism that ''An American Dream'' is a “literary hoax” and argues that through murder Rojack places himself “in the position to rebegin his life.” | |||
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|File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[ | |File:Buckley_Miami_Herald.JPG|[[An American Dream Expanded/There’s Hope in Mailer|William F. Buckley, Jr. states]]: “it was {{NM}} who developed the cult of the Hipster—the truly modern American who lets the bleary world go by doing whatever it bloody well likes, because nothing it does can upset the Hipsters’ inexhaustible Cool.” (''The Miami Herald'', September 26, 1965) | ||
|File: | |File:Lewis Nichols In and Out of books.jpg|Lewis Nichols “In and Out of Books” | ||
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