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 * {{cite book |editor-last=Mills |editor-first=Nicolaus |date=1994 |title=Legacy of “Dissent”: 40 Years of Writing from “Dissent” Magazine |url= |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} See [[54.1]].
 * {{cite book |last=Mills |first=Nicolaus |authormask=1 |date=1974 |title=The New Journalism: A Historical Anthology |url=https://archive.org/details/newjournalismhis0000mill |location=New York |publisher=McGraw-Hill |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} One of the earliest collections of literary journalism, with useful prefatory matter.
+* {{cite journal |last=Nakjavani |first=Erik |date=2016 |title=Norman Mailer’s Reception of Inherited Sociocultural Norms (1950–1960) |url=https://prmlr.us/mr10nakj |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=275–301 |access-date= }}
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+* {{cite book |editor-last=Panichas |editor-first=George A. |date=1971 |title=The Politics of Twentieth-Century Novelists |url=https://archive.org/details/politicsoftwenti0000pani |location=New York |publisher=Hawthorn Books |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Essays on British, continental and American novelists, including Mailer, with an important introduction by John W. Aldridge.
+* {{cite book |last=Phillips |first=William |date=1983 |title=A Partisan View: Five Decades of the Literary Life |url=https://archive.org/details/partisanviewfive00phil |location=New York |publisher=Stein and Day |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Memoir by Partisan Review’s long-time editor. See [[52.1]], [[68.4]].
+* {{cite book |editor-last=Podhoretz |editor-first=Norman |date=1966 |title=The Commentary Reader: Two Decades of Articles and Stories |url= |location=New York |publisher=Atheneum |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Contains Alfred Kazin’s important introduction, “The Jew as Modern American Writer,” and many other significant essays. See [[62.22]], [[68.4]].
+* {{cite book |last=Polsgrove |first=Carol |date=1995 |title=It Wasn’t Pretty Folks, but Didn’t We Have Fun: “Esquire” in the Sixties |url=https://archive.org/details/itwasntprettyfol00pols |location=New York |publisher=W. W. Norton |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} The serial publication of ''An American Dream'' ([[64.2]]–[[64.9]]) is but one strand in this history, which focuses on editor Harold Hayes.
+* {{cite book |last=Rader |first=Dotson |date=1973 |title=Blood Dues |url=https://archive.org/details/blooddues0000rade |location=New York |publisher=Knopf |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Memoir of the counterculture in the 1960s, including the rise and fall of the SDS. See [[72.18]].
+* {{cite book |last=Rahv |first=Philip |date=1978 |title=Essays on Literature and Politics, 1932-1972 |url=https://archive.org/details/essaysonliteratu32-72rahv |editor1-last=Porter |editor1-first=Arabel |editor2-last=Dvosin |editor2-first=Andrew J. |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Contains the most important essays of Rahv, a long-time editor of ''Partisan Review'', including those from his influential 1949 collection, ''Image and Idea'', and his review of ''An American Dream'' ([[65.7]]).
+* {{cite book |last=Reed |first=T. V. |date=1992 |title=Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics of American Social Movements |url=https://archive.org/details/fifteenjugglersf00reed_0 |location=Berkeley and Los Angles |publisher=University of California Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Argument for the synchronicity of literary theory and political action via an examination of writings by Mailer, James Agee, Ralph Ellison and others.
+* {{cite book |last=Rideout |first=Walter B. |date=1956 |title=The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954 |url=https://archive.org/details/radicalnovelin00ride |location=New York |publisher=Hill and Wang |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Still the finest critical survey of these novels, including Mailer’s first two.
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+* {{cite book |last1=Scholes |first1=Robert |last2=Kellog |first2=Robert |date=1968 |title=The Nature of Narrative |url=https://archive.org/details/natureofnarrativ00scho |location=New York |publisher=Oxford |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Comprehensive and stimulating historical overview.
+* {{cite book |last=Smith |first=Richard Norton |date=1986 |title=The Harvard Century: The Making of a University to a Nation |url= |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} History of Harvard, focusing on five of its greatest presidents.
+* {{cite book |last=Solotaroff |first=Theodore |date=1970 |title=The Red Hot Vacuum and Other Pieces on the Writing of the Sixties |url=https://archive.org/details/redhotvacuumo00solo |location=New York |publisher=Atheneum |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Solid collection of literary journalism about Mailer and his contemporaries: Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Flannery O’Connor, William Burroughs, Seymour Krim and others.
+* {{cite book |last=Tabbi |first=Joseph |date=1995 |title=Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk |url= |location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=Cornell University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Ambivalent attitudes to technology in the writings of Mailer, Don DeLillo and Joseph McElroy.
+* {{cite book |last=Tanner |first=Tony |date=1971 |title=City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970 |url= |location=New York |publisher=Harper and Row |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} The finest twentieth-century British critic of American fiction examines the work of 25 novelists, including Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, Susan Sontag, Ken Kesey, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. His chapter on Mailer, “On the Parapet,” is unlikely to be surpassed. Rpt: Partial in [[WD:Crit#Adams (1974)|Adams (1974)]], [[WD:Crit#Bloom (1986)|Bloom (1986)]].
+* {{cite book |last=Tytell |first=John |date=1976 |title=Naked Angels: The Lives and Literature of the Beat Generation |url=https://archive.org/details/nakedangels00john |location=New York |publisher=McGraw-Hill |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} The origins of the Beat sensibility in the culture of the 1950s.
 ==V–W==
+* {{cite book |last=Vogelgesang |first=Sandy |date=1974 |title=The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War |url= |location=New York |publisher=Harper and Row |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Early and excellent overview of the New Left’s involvement in the anti-war movement, including Mailer’s.
+* {{cite book |last=Wakefield |first=Dan |date=1992 |title=New York in the Fifties |url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkinfifties00wake |location=Boston |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} New York City during the decade in which American society began its transmogrification.
+* {{cite book |last=Wakefield |first=Dan |authormask=1 |date=1968 |title=Supernation at Peace and War: Being Certain Observations, Depositions, Testimonies, and Graffiti Gathered on a One-Man Fact-and-Fantasy Tour of the Most Powerful Nation in the World |url=https://archive.org/details/supernationatpea00wake |location=Boston |publisher=Little, Brown |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Account of Wakefield’s trip around the United States and his assessment of a nation moving deeper into the Vietnam War.
+* {{cite book |editor-last=Weber |editor-first=Ronald |date=1974 |title=The Reporter as Artist: A Look at the New Journalism Controversy |url= |location=New York |publisher=Hastings House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Early and valuable anthology of 26 reprinted pieces that debate the New Journalism.
+* {{cite book |last1=Whitmer |first1=Peter O. |last2=VanWyngarden |first2=Bruce |date=1987 |title=Aquarius Revisited: Seven Who Created the Sixties Counterculture that Changed America: William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Norman Mailer, Tom Robbins, Hunter S. Thompson |url=https://archive.org/details/aquariusrevisite00whit |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Based on interviews with all seven.
+* {{cite book |last=Wolfe |first=Tom |date=1973 |title=The New Journalism, with an Anthology |url= |editor1-last=Wolfe |editor1-first=Tom |editor2-last=Johnson |editor2-first=E. W.|location=New York |publisher=Harper and Row |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} The editors’ selections are as important as Wolfe’s apology for literary journalism and his attack on the contemporary novel.
+* {{cite book |last1=Wolf |first1=Daniel |last2=Fancher |first2=Edwin |date=1962 |title=The Village Voice Reader: A Mixed Bag from the Greenwich Village Newspaper |url=https://archive.org/details/villagevoiceread00wolf |location=New York |publisher=Doubleday |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} The first anthology of essays and columns from the ''Voice'', including several of Mailer’s, and Kenneth Tynan’s review of ''Advertisements for Myself'' ([[59.13]]). See [[56.1]]–[[56.17]].
+* {{cite book |last=Wreszin |first=Michael |date=1994 |title=A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: The Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald |url=https://archive.org/details/rebelindefenseof00wres |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} Standard biography of Mailer’s longtime friend (1949 to 1983), which includes accounts of the 1949 Waldorf conference and the 1968 march on the Pentagon. See [[49.1]].