The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007

Inaugural Issue
Volume 1 | Number 1 | Fall 2007

Articles

Norman Mailer
Remembering a Good Friend
William Kennedy
Norman Mailer as Occasional Commentator in a Self-Interview and Memoir
Robert F. Lucid
[Boston State Hospital: The Summer of 1942]
Norman Mailer
“The Naked and the Dead” [Excerpt from unpublished 1942 play]
J. Michael Lennon, editor
“A Series of Tragicomedies”: Mailer’s Letters on The Deer Park, 1954–55
Philip Bufithis
The Executioner’s Song: A Life Beneath our Conscience
Jeffrey Severs
The Untold Story Behind The Executioner’s Song: A Conversation with Lawrence Schiller
Morris Dickstein
How Mailer Became “Mailer”: The Writer as Private and Public Character
J. Michael Lennon
Gallery Talk: The Mailer Archive
Cathy Henderson, Richard W. Oram, Molly Schwartzburg, and Molly Hardy
Mailer Takes on America: Images from the Ransom Center Archive
Barbara Mailer Wasserman
Growing Up with Norman
Jonathan Middlebrook
Five Notes Toward a Reassessment of Norman Mailer
Alan Petigny
Norman Mailer, “The White Negro,” and New Conceptions of the Self in Postwar America

The Castle in the Forest
Christopher Ricks
The Devil only Knows
The Castle in the Forest
Robert Begiebing
Castle Mailer
The Castle in the Forest
Barbara Probst Solomon
Mailer’s Choice
The Castle in the Forest
Phillip Sipiora
Moments of Metaphor in Mailer’s Castle

Constance, E. Holmes and J. Michael Lennon
Norman Mailer: Supplemental Bibliography Through 2000