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While the real focus of this article is the scholarly response to Mailer’s work, Mailer has out-written all of his critics put together, and so a sketch of that work will be necessary at the outset. These books are: ''The Time of Our Time'' (1998), ''The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing'' (2003), ''Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings'' (2003), ''Why Are We at War?'' (2003), ''Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969'' (2004), ''The Big Empty with John Buffalo Mailer'' (2006), ''The Castle in the Forest'' (2007), and ''On God: An Uncommon Conversation with J. Michael Lennon'' (2007). Both ''The Time of Our Time'' and ''The Spooky Art'' present dangers of a sort of which younger Mailer readers need to be warned: Do not read through these books and think that you have before you the literary equivalent of an arctic ice core, something that provides a textual analogue to phenomenological history as measured by the author’s style. | |||