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My Life with and without My Father, Norman Mailer. We would like to publish Lipton’s in Mailer’s centenary year, 2023. | My Life with and without My Father, Norman Mailer. We would like to publish Lipton’s in Mailer’s centenary year, 2023. | ||
PS: After a long, long time, the Library of America finally began publishing | '''PS''': After a long, long time, the Library of America finally began publishing | ||
Norman Mailer.Why is this development so important for his stature in the | Norman Mailer.Why is this development so important for his stature in the | ||
future? | future? | ||
JML: It is recognition that Mailer is a canonical author. It is a recognition | '''JML''': It is recognition that Mailer is a canonical author. It is a recognition | ||
that his work is going to be kept in print and available in scholarly editions | that his work is going to be kept in print and available in scholarly editions | ||
for the foreseeable future. The Library of America, which was founded in | for the foreseeable future. The Library of America, which was founded in | ||
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Mailer contemporaries. The first two Mailer volumes, published in 2018, | Mailer contemporaries. The first two Mailer volumes, published in 2018, | ||
contain four of his books from the 1960s, and about 35 of his essays from | contain four of his books from the 1960s, and about 35 of his essays from | ||
that decade. | that decade. The question now is whether to go forward into the 1970s or go | ||
back to his earlier work, like The Naked and the Dead. We are having discussions on the schedule, although no conclusions have yet been reached. | |||