The Mailer Review/Volume 3, 2009/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2008

Written by
Constance E. Holmes
Shannon L. Zinck

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Note: Much of the following has been incorporated into Norman Mailer: Works and Days.

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URL: https://prmlr.us/mr03bib

Addenda through 2007

Primary

Interviews

Mailer, Norman (January 26, 2007). "Advertisements for a Gay Self". New York (Interview). 40 (4). Interviewed by Daniel Asa Rose. p. 9. Retrieved 2021-06-02. Norman Mailer answers questions concerning his new novel The Castle in the Forest.

Mailer, Norman (November 12, 2007). "The Nerve Interview: Norman Mailer". Nerve (Interview). Interviewed by William Doig. Retrieved 2021-06-02.

Essays, poems, forewords, prefaces, introductions, symposia contributions, letters to the editor

Van Gelder, Lawrence (June 29, 2007). "Norman Mailer and Günter Grass: Remembrance of Things Past". The New York Times (late ed.). sec. E. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-06-02.

Secondary

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters, and Dissertations

Beach, Patrick (November 11, 2007). "Mailer was 'Larger than Life' to Ransom Center's Director". Austin American Statesman (final ed.). sec. A. p. 11.

Haberman, Clyde (November 16, 2007). "A Norman Mailer Idea Whose Time Hasn't Come". New York Times (late ed.). sec. B. p. 1. Retrieved 2021-07-01. This article discusses Norman Mailer’s 1969 campaign for New York City mayor, in particular his platform of secession from the state of New York.

Hoberek, Andrew (2005). "Liberal Antiliberalism: Mailer, O'Connor, and the Gender Politics of Middle-Class Ressentiment". Women's Studies Quarterly. 33 (3–4): 24–47. Retrieved 2021-07-01.

Hölbling, Walter W. (2007). "Americans and Their Enemies: Political Rhetoric and Real Politics". Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature. 23: 211–223. Retrieved 2021-07-01. This article discusses the representation of political rhetoric in Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Norman Mailer’s Why Are We in Vietnam?

Lacayo, Richard (November 10, 2007). "Why Norman Mailer Mattered". Time. Time Inc. Retrieved 2009-08-05.

"Mr. Tendentious Norman Mailer Has a Bone to Pick. With You. And You. And...". New York. Vol. 40 no. 2. 2007. p. 62. This article offers a review of several of Norman Mailer’s more controversial confrontations with contemporary writers, critics and cultural notables through the course of his career.

Van Gelder, Lawrence (December 19, 2007). "Norman Mailer Papers to be Opened". New York Times (late ed.). sec. E. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-07-01.

Wang, Hui (2007). "The Artistic Tension of a Dual Text: An Analysis of the Narrative Ethics of Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night". Foreign Literature Studies. 29 (128): 111–120.

Book and Film Reviews

"The Castle in the Forest". New Yorker. February 5, 2007. p. 75.

Leonard, John (February 2007). "The Castle in the Forest". Harper's Magazine. p. 86.

Ott, Bill (2007). ""The Fight by Norman Mailer". American Libraries. Vol. 38 no. 10. p. 65.

R.B. (July 30, 2007). "Maidstone". New Yorker. p. 22.

Root, Deidre Bray (2007). "Serial Killers in the Stacks". Library Journal. Vol. 132 no. 14. pp. 46–49. This article includes brief reviews of several true-crime novels, including Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song.

Seitz, Matt Zoller (November 30, 2007). "Rev. of Oswald's Ghost, dir. Robert Stone". New York Times (late ed.). sec. E. p. 14. Retrieved 2021-07-01.

Obituaries and Retrospectives

DiIonno, Mark (November 11, 2007). "Mailer was the Storyteller who Brought American under One Tent". The Star Ledger (final ed.). p. 5.

Gill, John Freeman (November 18, 2007). "The Woman in the Shadow". New York Times (late ed.). sec. 14CY. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-07-01. This article takes a brief look at an important figure in the life and legend of Norman Mailer, his second wife Adele.

Neyfakh, Leon (November 14, 2007). "John Updike on Norman Mailer". New York Observer. Retrieved 2009-07-23.

— (November 14, 2007). "Mailer the Paper Boy". New York Observer. Retrieved 2009-07-23. This brief article focuses on Norman Mailer’s dedication to The Village Voice during the period in which he worked with the paper.

"Righting the Book on Mailer". The Boston Globe (3rd ed.). November 14, 2007. p. A18. Letters to the Editor from Christopher Busa and J. Michael Lennon regarding the editorial and obituary published in The Boston Globe on the death of Norman Mailer.

Spearie, Steven (November 11, 2007). "Former SSU Professor Announces Author's Death". The State Journal Register. p. 8.

Staub, Dick (December 7, 2007). "Memorable Mailer". National Catholic Reporter. pp. 19–22.

2008

Primary

Interviews

Chaiken, Michael (2008). "Author, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer". Mailer Review. 2 (1): 407–420. Retrieved 2021-07-03.

Grobel, Lawrence (2008). "Norman Mailer: Stupidity Brings Out Violence in Me". Endangered Species: Writers Talk About Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives. Cambridge: DaCapo Press. pp. 289–316. Rpt. in Grobel, Lawrence (2008). "Norman Mailer: Stupidity Brings Out Violence in Me". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 426–451. Retrieved 2021-07-03.

Lennon, J. Michael (2008). "The Castle in the Forest: A Conversation with Norman Mailer". Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 421–425. Retrieved 2021-07-03. Rpt. of Lennon, J. Michael (2007–2008). "Hitler in My Mind: The Roots of The Castle in the Forest". Provincetown Arts. Vol. 22. pp. 92–94.

Essays, poems, forewords, prefaces, introductions, symposia contributions, letters to the editor

Mailer, Norman (2008). "Acceptance Speech for National Book Foundation Award". Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 219–220. Retrieved 2021-07-03.

— (2008). "The Bodily Function Blues". Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 221–223. Retrieved 2021-07-03. Note by J. Michael Lennon.

— (October 6, 2000). "IN THE RING; Grappling with the Twentieth Century". The New Yorker. Life and Letters. pp. 50–63. Retrieved 2021-07-03. Series of important letters from 1925–1988.

— (2008). Introduction. BLUE NIGHTS: PHOTOGRAPHS. By Hirose, George. Provincetown, MA: Provincetown Arts Press. Retrieved 2021-07-03. Contains 52 photographs of Provincetown shot at night with long exposure; one of the last things Norman Mailer wrote before his death.

— (2008). "What's Wrong with America: Five Proposals". Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 216–218. Retrieved 2021-07-03. Note by J. Michael Lennon.

Secondary

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters, Dissertations, and Creative Works

Gilbert, Adair (2008). The American Epic Novel in the Late Twentieth Century: The Super-Genre of the Imperial State. Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press. This book examines Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song as well as the novels of Samuel R. Delany, James A. Michener, and Thomas Pynchon.

Aeschliman, M.D. (2008). ""The Big Empty and the Silver Voice."". National Review. 7: 49–52. This article presents a comparison of the literary careers of Norman Mailer and Saul Bellow.

Anderson, Sam (2008). ""Books."". New York. 14: 67–9. This article discusses books that represent the New York literary canon, including Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night and Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Anshen, David (2008). ""A New Politics of Form in Harlot's Ghost."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 452–73.

Begiebing and Bufithis, Robert and Philip (2008). ""A Dialogue on Mailer's Novels."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 225–64.

Bernstein, Mashey (2008). ""The Heart of the Nation: Jewish Values in the Fiction of Norman Mailer."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 376–84.

Bowers, John (2008). ""Mailer's Last Words."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 494–97. Print.

Broer, Lawrence (2008). ""Identity Crisis: A State of the Union Address by Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 364–75.

Bromwich, David (2008). ""Norman Mailer ~1924–2007!."". Dissent (2 ed.). 55: 97–9.

Crosbie, Lynn (16 September 2008). ""Our Terrible Desire to Rake Through Her Remains."". The Globe and Mail. No. R1. In part a response to the October 2008 issue of Vanity Fair dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, this article discusses what is left of the Monroe archive of personal belongings, much of which was photographed and documented by Mark Anderson.

Dimock, Wai Chee (2008). ""The Egyptian Pronoun: Lyric, Novel, the Book of the Dead."". New Literary History (3 ed.). 39: 619–43. This article is a study of Egyptian culture in the poetry of Walt Whitman and fiction and nonfiction of Norman Mailer, including Ancient Evenings and The Armies of the Night.

Feliciani, Daniela (2008). ""AmDream."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 513–14. Poem

Feuer, Alan (20 January 2008). ""Jimmy Breslin's Perpetual Deadline."". New York Times. p. 1. This article discusses the impact of Norman Mailer’s death on the life of Jimmy Breslin.

Fulgham, Richard (2008). ""The Wise Blood of Norman Mailer: An Interpretation and Defense of Why Are We in Vietnam?"". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 337–47.

Glenday, Michael (2008). ""From Monroe to Picasso: Norman Mailer and the LifeStudy."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 348–63.

Goldstein, Andrew (21 January 2008). ""Naked, Dead and Back to the Big Screen."". New York. p. 13.

Gordon, Neil (2008). ""On The Armies of the Night."". The Mailer Review (1 ed.). 2: 474–77. Note: This article was previously presented at the 40th Anniversary Conference on the March on the Pentagon/The Armies of the Night at Georgetown University on October 19, 2007.

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