Norman Mailer Bibliography2009

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters, Dissertations, and Creative Works

Caster, Peter. “The Executioner’s Song and the Narration of History.” Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2008. 83–106. Print.

Fleming, James R. “‘But Where is the Castle?’: The Function of Modernist Allegory in Norman Mailer’s The Castle in the Forest.” EAPSU Online: A Journal of Critical and Creative Work 5 (Fall 2008): 143–55. Print.

McCann, Sean. “Come Home, America: Vietnam and the End of the Progressive Presidency.” A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008. 139–177. Print. This chapter focuses on the representation of the American government and modern presidency in the work of Norman Mailer.

Meloy, Michael. “Sex Fiends of the Fifties: Intersections of Violence, Sexuality, and Masculinity in the Work of Norman Mailer, William Styron, and Ken Kesey.” Diss. U of South Carolina, 2007. Dissertation Abstracts International 68.8 (2008): item DA3280339. Print.

Sanders, J’aimé. “The Art of Existentialism: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and the American Existential Tradition.” Diss. U of South Florida, 2007. Dissertation Abstracts International 69.4(2008): item AAT3306890. Print.

Vatanpour, Sina. “Violence, War and Regeneration in Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead.” Passion de la guerre et guerre des passions dans les Etats-Unis d’Amérique. Ed. Anne Garrait-Bourrier and Ineke Bockting. Clermont-Ferrand, France: PU Blaise Pascal, 2008. 201–209. Print.

Wyatt, David. “Living Out the Sixties.” Hopkins Review 1.2 (2008): 315–339. Print. This article focuses on the treatment of 1960s America in Norman Mailer’s The Armies of the Night.

Books

Chabrier, Gwendolyn Simpson. Norman Mailer: The American Prophet. Trans. Jean Rosenthal. Paris: Ramsay, 2008. Print.

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters, Dissertations, and Creative Works

Ahearn, Allen. “Collecting Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 414–43. Print.

Bai, Matt. “The Edge of the Mystery.” New York Times Magazine 18 Jan. 2009: 37. Print. This article focuses on an essay that Norman Mailer wrote for Esquire on John F. Kennedy in 1960.

Balter, Barrie. “Secret Agency: American Individualism in Oswald’s Tale and Libra.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 133–72. Print.

Bedell, Jack B. “George Foreman in Zaire.” Hudson Review 62.2 (2009): 259. Print. The work is a poem dedicated to Norman Mailer.

Begiebing, Robert J. “Norman Mailer: The Magician as Tragic Hero.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 616–65. Print.

Bernstein, Mashey. “Maidstone, Mailer and Mashey: A Night at the Movies.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 614–5. Print.

Blaskiewicz, Robert J. “The Fiction and Memoirs of World War II Combat Veterans.” Diss. Saint Louis U, 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International 69.7 (2009): item DA3324136. Print.

Boddy, Kasia. “King of the Hill, and Further Raging Bulls.” Boxing: A Cultural History. London: Reaktion Books, 2009. 316–66. Print.

“Briefly Noted.” Harper’s Magazine Feb. 2009: 29. Print. The article presents an excerpt from an FBI review of Norman Mailer’s Miami and the Siege of Chicago from January 1969.

Brier, Evan. “1959 and Beyond: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Norman Mailer.” A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009. 127–55. Print.

Brown, Kevin. “A Foil and a Forerunner: The Portrayal of John the Baptist in Contemporary Fiction.” Midwest Quarterly 50.2 (2009): 149–60. Print.

Buchanan, John M. “Writers and Words.” Christian Century 10 Mar. 2009: 3. Print. This article reflects on various religious observations offered by three major twentieth century authors: John Updike, Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut.

Busa, Christopher. “Norman’s Crystals.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 276–80. Print.

Cohen, Patricia. “To Honor a Battler, Literary Peace Breaks Out.” New York Times 22 Oct. 2009: 1. Print. This article reviews the Norman Mailer Center’s Benefit Gala held at Cipriani in New York on October 20, 2009.

Dahlby, Tracy. “Examining Mailer in a Time of Split-Focus—or, What the Internet Cannot Do for Us.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 117–32. Print.

Daniels, Anthony. “Boxing with Mailer.” New Criterion 27.7 (2009): 76–80. Print.

Davis, Kimberly Chabot. “Beyond the White Negro: Eminem, Danny Hoch, and Race Treason in Contemporary America.” At Home and Abroad: Historicizing Twentieth-Century Whiteness in Literature and Performance. Ed. La Vinia Delois Jennings. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 2009. 221–254. Print. Tennessee Studies in Literature 44.

Dickstein, Morris. “The Time of His Time.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 269–71. Print.

Duranti, Riccardo. “The Prisoner’s Dream.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 694. Print.

Fleming, James R. “The Faith of Romanticism: Dialectical Synthesis and Norman Mailer’s English Romantic Vision.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 376–95. Print.

Hamilton, Geoff. “Between Mailer and DeLillo: The ‘Affectless Person’ in Robert Stone’s A Hall of Mirrors.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 65.2 (2009): 99–116. Print.

Hicks, Alexander. “The Mailerian Narrative: Structural Dynamics in a Poetics of Mailer’s Fiction.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 396–413. Print.

Howley, Ashton. “Mailer Again: Studies in the Late Fiction.” Diss. U of Ottawa, 2008. Dissertation Abstracts International 70.4 (2009): item DANR48399. Print.

Jokel, Lana, and Jan Welt. Interview by Michael Chaiken. “Editing Mailer: A Conversation with Jan Welt and Lana Jokel.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 506–28. Print.

Kaufmann, Donald L. “Courtly Norman: The Legacy Derby.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 281–98. Print.

Kramer, Daniel. “Norman, Maidstone and Me.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 529–55. Print.

Laist, Randy. “An American Dream: American Existentialism.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 322–36. Print.

“Last of the Great Cities.” New York Times 4 Oct. 2009: 5. Print. In light of the International Olympic Committee’s decision to hold the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro instead of Chicago, this article reflects on Norman Mailer’s description of the windy city in Miami and the Siege of Chicago.

Luddy, Tom. Interview by Phillip Sipiora. “Perspectives on Cinema: A Conversation with Tom Luddy.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 565–69. Print.

Mailer, John Buffalo. “It’ll Pass, It Always Does.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 679–92. Print.

Manon, Hugh S. “Heading Off Satisfaction in Tough Guys Don’t Dance.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 582–601. Print.

Martinson, Deborah. “It Takes a Thief to Know a Thief: Four Biographies of Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 244–68. Print.

Meloy, Mike. “Tales of the ‘Great Bitch’: Murder and the Release of Virile Desire in An American Dream.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 337–56. Print.

Menand, Louis. “It Took a Village.” New Yorker 5 Jan. 2009: 36–45. Print. The article reviews the founding of The Village Voice and examines its impact on modern American journalism.

Miller, Linda Patterson. “Woman Redux: De Kooning, Mailer and American Abstract Expression.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 299–306. Print.

Mills, Nicolaus. “The Last Page.” Dissent 56.1 (2009): 120. Print. This article focuses on the archived Mailer correspondence, a selection of which was published in The New Yorker on October 6, 2008.

Morrow, Stephan. Tough Guys Do Dance.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 602–13. Print.

Mosser, Jason. “Genre-Bending in The Armies of the Night.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 307–21. Print.

Moyer, Kermit. “Meeting Mailer.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 272–5. Print.

Nawotka, Edward. “Keeping the Mailer Spirit Alive.” Publishers Weekly 4 May 2009: 13–14. Print.

“Norman Mailer.” Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. Columbia UP, 1 Dec. 2009. Web.

“Norman Mailer: Deer Park Letters.” New York Review of Books 26 Feb. 2009: 19–22. Print. This article reprints a portion of Norman Mailer’s correspondence during the time that he was working on his novel The Deer Park.

“Norman Mailer: Letters on Writing.” New York Review of Books 12 Feb. 2009: 19–20. Print.

“Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott.” New York Review of Books 12 Mar. 2009: 26–8. Print. This article contains a selection from the correspondence of Norman Mailer to Jack Henry Abbott, a prisoner at a Utah state prison.

Olshaker, Mark. “The Crime of His Time.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 90–105. Print.

Oon, Angela, and John Whalen-Bridge. “Washed by the Swells of Time: Reading Mailer, 1998–2008.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 212–43. Print.

Pennebaker, D.A. “Norman Mailer at First Light.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 562–4. Print.

Peppard, Victor. “Norman Mailer in the Light of Russian Literature.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 173–211. Print.

Rhodes, Gary D. “Commando Raids on the Nature of Reality.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 570–81. Print.

Samaras, Nicholas. “A Psalm for Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 693. Print.

Schiller, Lawrence. Interview by J. Michael Lennon. “Long Legs, the American Tolstoy, Oswald, and the KGB: A Conversation with Lawrence Schiller.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 29–73. Print.

Scotchie, Joe. “Thomas Wolfe and Norman Mailer: Kinsmen of the Land.” Thomas Wolfe Review 33.1/2 (2009): 114–16. Print.

Steiner, Griselda. “Maidstone: A Sign of Our Times.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 556–61. Print.

Stone, Robert. “The Loser’s Loser.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 106–16. Print.

Valiunas, Algis. “The Naked Novelist and the Dead Reputation.” Commentary 128.2 (2009): 69–75. Print.

Vince, Raymond M. “Reflections of Time Past: Pattern, Time, and Memory in Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 357–75. Print.

Weinman, Sarah. “The Norman Mailer Writers Colony.” Poets & Writers 37.2 (2009): 66–71. Print.

Worcester, Wayne. “A Favor for the Ages.” The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 74–89. Print.

Book and Film Reviews

Brody, Richard. Rev. of King Lear, dir. Jean-Luc Godard. New Yorker 18 May 2009: 16. Print. A review of the film King Lear, which stars Norman Mailer and Peter Sellars.

Chaiken, Michael. “Tough Guys Don’t Trance.” Rev. of Untitled Short Film, by Norman Mailer. Film Comment 1 Nov. 2009: 8. Print.

Goff, Adam. Rev. of Norman Mailer, Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11, by Norman Mailer. New Scientist 15 Aug. 2009: 43. Print.

Leeds, Barry H. Rev. of Norman Mailer: An American Aesthetic, by Andrew Wilson. The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 666–73. Print.

“Mornings with Mailer.” Rev. of Mornings with Mailer, by Raymond Dwayne. Kirkus Reviews 77.23 (2009): 67. Print.

Shonauer, David. “New Books: An Astonishing Limited-Edition Volume Tells the Epic Story of the Journey of Apollo 11 in Photos and the Words of Norman Mailer.” Rev. of Norman Mailer, Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11, by Norman Mailer. American Photo 20.5 (2009): 20–1. Print.

Shuman, Michael L. Rev. of Mornings with Mailer, by Dwayne Raymond. The Mailer Review 3.1 (2009): 674–8. Print.

Srogow, Michael. Rev. of When We Were Kings, dir. Leon Gast. New Yorker 6 July 2009: 20. Print.