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Constance E. Holmes
Kristine A. Wilson
Note: Much of the following has been incorporated into Norman Mailer: Works and Days.
URL: https://prmlr.us/mr08bib
Addenda through 2006
Primary
Letters
Mailer, Norman (March 4, 1968). "Protest" (Letter). Letter to New York Review of Books. 10:5. Copy of letter to Leonid I. Brezhnev, with other signatories.
— (May 9, 1968). "Violence in Oakland" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 10:9. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (March 27, 1969). "Protest" (Letter). Letter to New York Review of Books. 12:6. Copy of telegram to Hon. U Thant, with other signatories.
— (June 19, 1969). "The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 12:12. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (January 25, 1973). "Ford's Better Idea" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 19:11 & 12. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (November 24, 1977). "Words for the Shah" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 24:19. Retrieved 2020-10-01. Open letter to the Prime Minister of Iran, with other signatories.
— (December 7, 1978). "In a Cuban Prison" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 25:19. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (October 11, 1984). "The Case of Alexandr Bogolovski" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 31:15. Copy of letter to Mr. A. M. Rekunov, Procurator General of the USSR, with other signatories.
— (August 13, 1986). "Arrests in Poland" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 33.13. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (March 15, 1990). "Celebrating Mencken" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 37:4. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (February 11, 1993). "An Urgent Appeal from Pen American Center" (Letter). Letter to President Clinton. New York Review of Books. 40:4. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (February 15, 1996). "The Case of Wei Jingsheng" (Letter). Letter to to Prime Minister Paul Keating et al. New York Review of Books. 43:3. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories. An open letter.
— (December 18, 2003). "JFK's Assassination" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 50:20. Retrieved 2020-10-01. With other signatories.
— (November 4, 2004). "The Election and America's Future" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 51:17. Retrieved 2020-10-01. Letter; one of a series solicited by the Editors.
— (August 11, 2005). "Blocked" (Letter). Letter to the Editors, New York Review of Books. 52:13. Retrieved 2020-10-01. As author of Oswald’s Tale, with other signatories.
2007
Primary
Books
Mailer, Norman (2007). The Castle in the Forest. New York: Random House.
—; Lennon, J. Michael (2007). On God: An Uncommon Conversation. New York: Random House.
Book Contributions
Mailer, Norman (2007). "Commentary". Knockout: The Art of Boxing. By Regan, Ken. San Rafael, CA: Insight Editions.
— (2007). Introduction. Marilyn Monroe. By Schiller, Lawrence. Los Angles, CA: East End Editions KLS.
Interviews
Binelli, Mark (May 2007). "Norman Mailer". Rolling Stone. pp. 3–17.
Foley, Dylan (January 28, 2007). "A Portrait of the Devil as a Young Man". Star-Ledger. final ed. p. 6.
Fox, Sue (July 8, 2007). "Even at 84, Norman Mailer Refuses to Pull His Punches". Sunday Express. UK first ed. p. 55. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
Freeman, John (January 20, 2007). "Devilish Motives". Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. p. 30. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
Goldberg, Nan. "Writing with the Devil". Boston Globe. Magazine. p. 15. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
Kirschling, Gregory (January 19, 2007). "Tough Guys Don't Quit". Entertainment Weekly. No. 916. p. 48.
Lee, Michael (Summer 2007). "The Devil in Norman Mailer" (PDF). Literary Review. 50 (4): 202–217. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
Lennon, Michael (October 5, 2007). "The Rise of Mailerism". New York. No. 40.36. pp. 24+. Retrieved 2020-10-02. Mailer discusses On God.
Llewellyn, Caro (March 31, 2007). "The Lion in Winter: Norman Mailer Talks about Writing His First Novel in a Decade". Weekend Australian. pre-prints ed. p. 1.
McCrum, Robert (November 11, 2007). "The Author at Home". The Observer. England.
Miner, Colin (January 22, 2007). "Mailer on Bush, Obama & Writing". New York Sun. p. 15. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
O’Hagan, Andrew (Summer 2007). "The Art of Fiction No. 193, Norman Mailer". The Paris Review. 49 (181): 44+.
— (September 2007). "Get Your Ass off My Pillow". Harper’s Magazine. No. 315.1888. pp. 22–24.
Pierleoni, Allen (February 7, 2007). "Now Age 84...". Sacramento Bee. metro final ed.: TK22.
"Proust Questionnaire: Norman Mailer". Vanity Fair. No. 557. January 2007. p. 166. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
Rose, Daniel Asa (January 21, 2007). "In Conversation ... ; with Norman Mailer". Washington Post. Final ed.: T07. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
Santaro, Gene (May 2007). "The Sound and the Baby Führer". World War II. 22 (2): 23–25. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
Stoffman, Judy (January 28, 2007). "Mailer's Novel Ideas about Hitler". The Toronto Star. p. C04. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
Wollheim, Richard (November 19, 2007). "Living like Heroes". New Statesman. No. 137.4871. p. 62. Retrieved 2020-10-01. Abridged reprint of a 1961 interview promoting Advertisements for Myself.
Secondary
Essays, Articles, Book Chapters, and Dissertations
"Sex-Mad Mailer Enraged Rival". New York Post. Page Six. January 17, 2007. p. 12. Retrieved 2020-10-01. Article discussing Ralph Ellison’s attitude toward Mailer, according to Ellison’s biographer.
Bancroft, Collette (October 16, 2007). "A Man of Many Letters". St. Petersburg Times. Florida 1E. A look at Mailer and Mailer scholarship on the occasion of both the publication of On God and the launch of Mailer Review.
Beach, Patrick (December 23, 2007). "Mailer's Memories about to Open at Ransom Center". Austin American-Statesman. final ed. p. J5.
Bennett, Bruce (July 20, 2007). "Mailer at the Movies". New York Sun. 11. Retrieved 2020-10-03. Overview of Mailer’s films.
Brokaw, Leslie (September 16, 2007). "HFA Salutes Norman Mailer on Film". Boston Globe. third ed. p. N11. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Bufithis, Philip (2007). "The Executioner's Song: A Life Beneath Our Conscience". Mailer Review (1 ed.). 1: 77-79. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Burns, Paul C. (2007). "Transformation of Biblical Methods and Godhead in Norman Mailer's Gospel". In Jesus in Twentieth-Century Literature, Art, and Movies. New York: Continuum.
Chaiken, Michael (July 2007). "The Master's Mercurial Mistress: How Norman Mailer Courted Chaos 24 Frames per Second". Film Comment. 43 (4): 36–42. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Crook, Zeba (January 2007). "Fictionalizing Jesus: Story and History in Two Recent Jesus Novels". Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus. 5 (1): 33-55. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Dickstein, Morris (2007). "How Mailer Became 'Mailer': The Writer as Private and Public Character". Mailer Review. 1 (1): 118-31. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Duguid, Scott (2007). "The Addiction of Masculinity: Norman Mailer's Tough Guys Don't Dance and the Cultural Politics of Reaganism". Journal of Modern Literature. 30 (1): 23-30. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Freeman, John (January 28, 2007). "Writers Remain a Robust Bunch". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. p. B1+. Article about the continued productivity of aging “literary giants” Mailer, Updike, and Roth.
Goldfarb, Reuven (November 20, 2007). "The Jewish Mailer". Jerusalem Post. 14. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Gottlieb, Akiva (July 20, 2017). "Norman Mailer, Auteur". Forward. B1+. Retrieved 2020-10-03. Article on Mailer’s films, on the occasion of the New York exhibit “The Mistress and the Muse: The Films of Norman Mailer.”
Henderson, Cathy; Oram, Richard W.; Schwartzburg, Molly; Hardy, Molly (2007). "Mailer Takes on America: Images from the Ransom Center Archive". Mailer Review. 1 (1): 141–75. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Holmes, Constance E.; Lennon, J. Michael (Fall 2007). "Norman Mailer: Supplemental Bibliography through 2006". Mailer Review. 1 (1): 234–60. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Houpt, Simon (January 27, 2007). "Still a Brawler at Heart". Globe and Mail. Canada. p. R4. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Howard, Gerald (August 2007). "Mailer Gets Hammered". New York Times Book Review (late ed, final). p. 27. Retrieved 2020-10-03. Essay discussing Mailer’s films, focusing on Maidstone.
Howley, Ashton (2007). "Mailer Again: Heterophobia in Tough Guys Don't Dance". Journal of Modern Literature. 30 (1): 31–46.
James, Clive (2007). Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts. New York: W. W. Norton. pp. 409–413.
J. C. (October 26, 2007). "White Mischief". TLS: Times Literary Supplement: 36. Includes brief mention of Mailer Review.
Junod, Tom (January 2007). "The Last Man Standing". Esquire. Vol. 147 no. 1. pp. 108–133. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Kachka, Boris (January 15, 2007). "Mr. Tenditious". New York. Vol. 40 no. 2. p. 62. Recaps Mailer’s history of responding negatively—even violently—to criticism.
Kaufmann, Donald L. (Fall 2007). "An American Dream: The Singular Nightmare". Mailer Review. 1 (1): 194-205. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Kennedy, William (Fall 2007). "Norman Mailer as Occasional Commentator in a Self-Interview and Memoir". Mailer Review. 1 (1): 11-26. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Kriegel, Leonard (Fall 2007). "Mailer's Hitler: Round One". Sewanee Review. 115 (4): 615-620. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Lennon, J. Michael (Fall 2007). "Gallery Talk: The Mailer Archive". Mailer Review. 1 (1): 132-40. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
— (2007). "Norman Mailer: Novelist, Journalist, or Historian?". Journal of Modern Literature. 30 (1): 91-103. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
—, ed. (Fall 2007). "'A Series of Tragicomedies': Mailer's Letters on The Deer Park, 1954–55". Mailer Review. 1 (1): 45-79. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
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Long, Karen Haymon. “Mailer in Review.” Tampa Tribune 18 Nov 2007, final ed., Baylife: 1. Discusses the formation of the Mailer Society and the annual conference, focusing on Tampa-area members and the launch of the Mailer Review out of USF.
Lucid, Robert F. “[Boston State Hospital: The Summer of 1942].” Mailer Review 1.1 (Fall 2007): 27–33. Excerpt from incomplete authorized biography.
Masters, Brian. “So Are Some People Really Born Evil?” Daily Mail [London] 19 April 2007, first ed.: 14. Article discussing The Castle in the Forest in relation to an actual scientific study on evil and genetics.
McDonald, Brian. “Post-Holocaust Theodicy, American Imperialism, and the ‘Very Jewish Jesus’ of Norman Mailer’s The Gospel According to the Son.” Journal of Modern Literature 30.1 (2007): 78–90.
Meloy, Michael. Sex Fiends of the Fifties: Intersections of Violence, Sexuality, and Masculinity in the Work of Norman Mailer, William Styron, and Ken Kesey. Diss. U of South Carolina, 2007. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2007. AAT 3280339.
Middlebrook, Jonathan: “Five Notes toward a Reassessment of Norman Mailer.” Mailer Review 1.1 (Fall 2007): 179–83.
Partridge, Jeffrey F. L. “The Gospel According to the Son and Christian Belief.” Journal of Modern Literature 30.1 (2007): 64–77.
Petigny, Alan.“Norman Mailer,‘The White Negro,’ and New Conceptions of the Self in Postwar America.” Mailer Review 1.1 (Fall 2007): 184–93.
Rampton, David. “Plexed Artistry: The Formal Case for Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost.” Journal of Modern Literature 30.1 (2007): 47–63.
Rodwin, John G. "Fighters and Writers". The Mailer Review. Fall 2008. 396-406.
Rollyson, Carl. “Mailer’s Other Career.” Village Voice 52.29 (18–24 Jul 2007): 68. On the occasion of the New York exhibit, “The Mistress and the Muse: The Films of Norman Mailer.”
Rose, Daniel Asa. “Advertisements for a Gay Self.” New York 40.4 (5 Feb 2007): 9. Brief comment praising Mailer’s treatment of homosexuality in The Castle in the Forest.
Ryan, James Emmett. “‘Insatiable as Good Old America’: Tough Guys Don’t Dance and Popular Criminality.” Journal of Modern Literature 30.1 (2007): 17–22.
Scott, A.O. “Norman Mailer Unbound.” New York Times 20 Jul 2007, late ed. final, east coast: E1!. Discuss/reviews Mailer’s films in anticipation of a screening at Lincoln Center.
Severs, Jeffrey Frank. Reinventing Totalitarianism in the Postwar American Novel. Diss. Harvard U, 2007. Ann Arbor: UMI, 2007. AAT 3265089.
Book Reviews
Reviews of The Castle in the Forest
Abell, Stephen (February 16, 2007). "The Anality of Evil". TLS: Times Literary Supplement. pp. 21–22.
Allen, Bruce (January 28, 2007). "Mailer Asks: Who Made Hitler?". News & Observer. final ed. p. G5.
Allington, Patrick (May 12, 2007). "Devil's Disciple". Advertiser. Australia, state ed. p. W10.
Amidon, Stephen (February 4, 2007). "Portrait of a Monster". Sunday Times. London. p. 54. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Anderson, Don (April 7, 2007). "Devil of a Time". Weekend Australian. Qld Review ed. p. 10.
Anshen, D. (September 2007). "An Enigmatic Development". American Book Review. 28 (6): 18. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
Arditti, Michael (February 16, 2007). "New Fiction". Daily Mailer. London, first ed. p. 72.
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"His Perfect Sense of the Other". New Criterion. 25 (6): 1–2. February 2007. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
"Little Hitler". Economist. Books & Arts. January 20, 2007. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
"Mailer Brings out the Devil in Hitler". Times. London. August 8, 2007. p. 21.
"Norman Mailer Digs into Hitler's Childhood". Weekend Edition: All Things Considered. NPR. January 27, 2007. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
"Norman Mailer Writes a Novel about Adolf Hitler's Childhood". Gleaner. New Brunswick. January 27, 2007. pp. C4.
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Obituaries and Retrospectives
Allen-Mills, Tony (November 11, 2007). "Norman Mailer, Literary Rebel, Dies". Sunday Times. London. pp. 1+. Retrieved 2020-10-01. [Note: Also printed in the Australian under a different headline.]
Ambrose, Jay (November 25, 2007). "Remembering Mailer". Knoxville News. p. 73.
Andriani, Lynn (November 19, 2007). "A Prolific Life to the End". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
"Literary Lion Sparked American Debate". Daily Variety. Associated Press. November 12, 2007.
"Writers Remember Mailer". Times Union. Associated Press. November 13, 2007.
"The Bad Boy of U.S. Literature". Sunday Times. London. November 11, 2007. p. 20.
Baddiel, David (November 17, 2007). "For Norman Mailer, Authenticity was all about Masculinity". Times. London. p. 3.
Bancroft, Colette (November 11, 2007). "'He was Much More' than a Writer". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. p. 1A.
Barnes, Bart (November 11, 2007). "A Blustery Force in Life and Letters". Washington Post. p. A01. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
Bernstein, Mashey (December 2007). "In Different Way, Norman Mailer was a Deeply Jewish Writer". Deep South Jewish Voice.
Blau, Rosie; Mulligan, Martin (November 12, 2007). "Pulling No Punches to the End". London Financial Times. p. 13. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
Boyd, Herb (November 15, 2007). "When James Baldwin Met Norman Mailer". New York Amsterdam News. p. 1+.
Burke, Cathy; Venezia, Todd (November 11, 2007). "Literary Pug and Original Hipster Mailer, 84, Dies". New York Post. p. November 11, 2007. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
"A Brawler who Never Pulled a Punch". Irish Times. November 12, 2007. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
Calabrese, Erin (November 19, 2007). "Widow Defends Mailer, Says He 'Loved Women'". New York Post. p. 14. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
Campbell, James (November 12, 2007). "Norman Mailer: Pugnacious Journalist and Author". Guardian. London. p. 34. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
Cappell, Ezra (November 16, 2007). "Norman Mailer: A Man of Letters Inspired by the People of the Book". Forward. p. A1+. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
Clark, Roy Peter (November 15, 2007). "Two Minutes with Mailer". St. Petersburg Times. Florida. p. 1E. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
Clarke, Toni (November 12, 2007). "Writer Norman Mailer dies at 84". Irish Times. p. 10. Retrieved 2020-10-04.
"Heavyweight: Mailer's Life and Work Were Outsized". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. November 14, 2007. p. B6. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
"Legendary Writer with Particular Love for the Irish". Irish Independent. November 12, 2007. p. unknown. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
"A Life of Writing, Boozing and Brawling". Edmonton Journal. November 11, 2007. p. A3.
"Mailer won pair of Pulitzers". Variety. November 19, 2007. p. 55.
"Mailer's Ghost". New York. November 26, 2007. Retrieved 2020-10-02. [Note: Revisits the seven covers of New York Magazine that have featured Mailer, either as author or subject.]
"Norman Mailer". Economist. US. November 15, 2007. p. 103. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
"Norman Mailer". Sunday Independent. Ireland. November 11, 2007.
"Norman Mailer". Times. London. November 12, 2007. p. 53.
"Norman Mailer". Independent. London. November 13, 2007. p. 34. Retrieved 2020-10-02.
"Norman Mailer". Times Union. November 15, 2007. p. A12.
"Norman Mailer". Cincinnati Post. November 12, 2007. p. C10.
"Norman Mailer, 84". Newsweek. December 31, 2007.
"Obituary of Norman Mailer". Daily Telegraph. London. November 12, 2007. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
"Pulitzer Prize Author Norman Mailer Dies at 84". Providence Journal. November 11, 2007. p. A6.
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Craig, Olga. “A Life of Books, Bars, Brawling.” Gazette [Montreal] 11 Nov 2007, final ed.: A3.
Crosbie, Lynn. “Believe it: This was the Man who Loved Women.” Globe and Mail [Canada] 12 Nov 2007: R1.
Crossen, Cynthia. “Readback: When Normal Mailer Was Nobody: 1948’s ‘The Naked and the Dead’ Was Written Before He Was Famous, And That Is Its Greatest Blessing.” Wall Street Journal Online (15 Nov 2007). http:// www.wallstreetjournal.com.
Cryer, Dan and Aileen Jacobson. “Norman Mailer 1923–2007: A Literary Icon Dies.” Newsday 11 Nov 2007, Nassau and Suffolk ed.: A08
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D’Alessio, Jeff (November 11, 2007). "A Life Written and Lived on a Large Scale: Norman Mailer 1923–2007". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. A5. Reactions from Atlanta residents on the life and death of Mailer.
Deignan, Tom (November 21, 2007). "Mailer: More Irish than the Irish". Irish Voice. Vol. 21 no. 47. p. 11.
Demirel, Selçuk (December 3, 2007). "Norman Mailer". Nation. Vol. 285 no. 18. p. 8.
Dickstein, Morris (December 10, 2007). "The Nijinsky of Ambivalence". Nation. Vol. 285 no. 19. pp. 48–52.
— (December 30, 2007). "The Un-generation". Los Angeles Times. p. R4. Retrospective comparing the lives and careers of Mailer, Kurt Vonnegut and Grace Paley, who all died in 2007 at the age of 84.
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Duggan, Keith (November 7, 2007). "Two-Fisted Mailer Finally Counter Out". Irish Times. p. 12.
Epstein, Jason (December 20, 2007). "Norman Mailer (1923–2007)". New York Review of Books. Vol. 54 no. 20. p. 10.
Eyman, Scott (November 11, 2007). "Mailer's Works Made Deep Impression on Post-WWII Political, Cultural Landscape". Palm Beach Post.
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