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...l Lennon]]'''<br />[[/The Collision#Note|A Note on “The Collision,” Norman Mailer’s First Short Story]] * '''[[Mark Edmundson]]'''<br />[[/Mailer’s Greatness: A Note/]]

{{byline|last=Mailer|first=Norman|note=Mailer’s first short story written in January 1933, when Mailer was ten-years-old. ( ...cience fiction novel which had one root in the Buck Rogers radio show, and a second in the Princess of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Barbara remem

...they belong, and what is contemplated by daylight is an American tragedy. |note=This essay first appeared in the ''London Review of Books'' ({{date|1980-03 ...ombined efforts of Gilmore and his prosecutors, Gilmore’s bad life came to a good end. He was then brave. He was dignified. Generous, too, giving his ey

...Mailer’s novels. They are also significant as stages in the development of Mailer’s non­ fiction voice, which is to reach its finest expression to date in ''T ...the most interesting in that it provides direct insights into the state of Mailer’s mind in the late 1950’s. The “advertisements” themselves treat person

...re the original story on the nature of successful film treatments would be a worthy addition to the reading lists for film-writing courses. —[[J. Mich Maybe, it is appropriate to conclude with a piece of prophetic fiction. Assume then that the errors in reasoning and/or

...osition to the society within which one lives. The rebellious path to such a journal is through solitude.|url=http://prmlr.us/mr14beg}} {{dc|dc=M|ailer opens ''Of a Fire on the Moon''}} (1969) recalling his reaction of “horror” and “d

..., Mailer could be the once-and-future journalist, erudite, hard-working to a fault, dazzling with invention, but restrained by the metes and bounds of r ...d to twist and turn us unproductively inward while in the background arose a damnable Asian war that left us mocking the principles, self-reliance and p

{{Byline|last=Holmes|first=Constance E.|last1=Lennon|first1=J. Michael|note=Much of the following has been incorporated into ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: W ...tor, and drawings by Mailer will eventually be gathered, it is hoped, into a successor volume to ''Works and Days''. Annotations have been provided for

...theast Asia, all contributed toward blowing out the foundations upon which a generation was built and substituted the flimsiest of materials. Skepticism ...mination, as well as from my perspectives as a Mailer devotee, a novelist, a writer on true crime, criminal justice and behavioral profiling and, partic

...f the assassination, the narratives of Mailer and DeLillo posit for Oswald a culturally significant motive that is at once personal and expressly politi ...f from “a zero in the system”{{sfn|DeLillo|1988|p=106}} to “a prime mover, a man who made things happen.”{{Sfn|Mailer|1995|p=605}}