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{{byline|last=Loving|first=Jerome|last1=Lennon|first1=J. Michael|note=On October 24, 2013, at the Eleventh Annual meeting of the International Norman Mailer Society, Jerome Loving and J. Michael Lennon discussed, comparatively, Theodore Dreiser’s ''An American Tragedy'' and Norman Mailer’s ''The Executioner’s Song''. The panel was moderated by Barry H. Leeds.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr14love}} | {{byline|last=Loving|first=Jerome|last1=Lennon|first1=J. Michael|note=On October 24, 2013, at the Eleventh Annual meeting of the International [[Norman Mailer Society]], Jerome Loving and J. Michael Lennon discussed, comparatively, Theodore Dreiser’s ''An American Tragedy'' and Norman Mailer’s ''The Executioner’s Song''. The panel was moderated by [[Barry H. Leeds]].|url=https://prmlr.us/mr14love}} | ||
'''Barry Leeds''': Jerome Loving is the author of a number of fine and well received biographies, most notably on Dreiser—which is the topic for today—Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and he’s currently working on a book that I find fascinating even in its inception: Norman Mailer and Jack Henry Abbott; so I know I want to read that as soon as it comes out. Mike Lennon, I’ve said this before at one of these conferences, Mike is either the hardest guy in the society to introduce if you try to list all of his accomplishments or the easiest because you all know him. So I’ll say quite simply that he has inherited from Bob Lucid the title, I think, of “Dean of Mailer Studies” as is most clearly evinced by his magnificent landmark biography that you’re all aware of, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life''. Over his career he has also published with Donna Pedro Lennon a bibliography, ''Works and Days'', and ''On God'', interviews with Norman about God and religion, and he edited ''Pieces and Pontifications'' and a host of other major works on and about Norman Mailer so I am just going to turn it over to these guys, and after I’ll call on you for questions. Thank you. | '''Barry Leeds''': Jerome Loving is the author of a number of fine and well received biographies, most notably on Dreiser—which is the topic for today—Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and he’s currently working on a book that I find fascinating even in its inception: Norman Mailer and Jack Henry Abbott; so I know I want to read that as soon as it comes out. Mike Lennon, I’ve said this before at one of these conferences, Mike is either the hardest guy in the society to introduce if you try to list all of his accomplishments or the easiest because you all know him. So I’ll say quite simply that he has inherited from Bob Lucid the title, I think, of “Dean of Mailer Studies” as is most clearly evinced by his magnificent landmark biography that you’re all aware of, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life''. Over his career he has also published with Donna Pedro Lennon a bibliography, ''Works and Days'', and ''On God'', interviews with Norman about God and religion, and he edited ''Pieces and Pontifications'' and a host of other major works on and about Norman Mailer so I am just going to turn it over to these guys, and after I’ll call on you for questions. Thank you. | ||