Norman Mailer Bibliography2012

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

Laycock, Joseph P. “Levitating the Pentagon: Exorcism as Politics, Politics as Exorcism.” Implicit Religion 14.3 (2011): 295-318. Print.

“Notes.” The Thomas Wolfe Review 35.1-2 (2011): 179–185. Print. This issue’s “Notes” section focuses on the literary connections among Thomas Wolfe’s The Right Stuff, William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice, Richard Wright’s Uncle Tom’s Children and Norman Mailer’s prose.

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

Abbott, Sean. “Great American App: Norman Mailer, Electronic Books, and Revolutionary Consciousness.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 95-116. Print.

——— . “Stuntmensch.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 382-394. Print.

Anshen, David. “The Prescience of Mailer’s Marxism: Socialism or Barbary Shore?” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 246-266. Print.

Atkinson, Michael. “Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer.” Sight & Sound 22.10 (2012): 115-117. Print.

Batchelor, Bob. “Mailer and Updike: Probing American Culture as Writers and Celebrities.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 129-144. Print.

Begiebing, Robert J., Ray Elliott, J. Michael Lennon, and Warren Mason. “Why Mailer and Jones Matter.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 28-54. Print.

Bell, Matthew. “The Feral Beast: How Mailer went into pictures.” Independent.co.uk. Independent, 22 July 2012. Web.

Bernstein, Mashey. “My First Encounter with Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 145-148. Print.

Bishop, Sarah. “The Life and Death of the Celebrity Author in Maidstone.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 288-308. Print.

Campbell, James. “As she is spake.” Times Literary Supplement 6 Apr. 2012: 32. Print.

This article reviews literary updates for April 2012, including those concerning the CD Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation and Norman Mailer’s Why are We in Vietnam?

Comprone, Joseph. “Narrative Voices, Dialectics, and the Fiction of Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 232-245. Print.

D’Amore, Jonathan L. American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Print. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century.

——— . “The Writing Life: Authorship and Authority in Recent American Autobiographical Narratives.” Diss. U of North Carolina, 2011. DAI 72.11 (2012): item DA3464899. Print.

Davis, J. Madison. “Recognizing the Art of Nonfiction: Literary Excellence in True Crime.” World Literature Today 86.5 (2012): 10-12. Print.

DePolo, Nicole. “A Philosophical Launch Of A Fire on the Moon ignites into Moonfire.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 275-287. Print.

Dickstein, Morris. “Norman Mailer and the Nobel Prize.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 55-57. Print.

Dollar, Steve. “A Long Island Horror Story.” Wall Street Journal Abstracts 29 Aug. 2012: A22. Print. This brief article notes the re-release of Norman Mailer’s Maidstone in the Criterion Collection.

Edwards, Anne. “A Time for Dreams—and Norman Mailer.” Leaving Home: A Hollywood Blacklisted Writer’s Years Abroad. Lanham: Scarecrow, 2012. 92–107. Print.

Frank, Thomas. “Easy Chair.” Harper’s Magazine Oct. 2012: 6-9. Print. This article compares Norman Mailer’s 1960 essay “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” about U.S. President John F. Kennedy to Michael Chabon’s 2008 essay about President Barack Obama, which appeared in the Washington Post.

Garrett, Leah. “Young Lions: Jewish American War Fiction of 1948.” Jewish Social Studies 18.2 (2012): 70-99. Print.

Glenday, Michael K. “The Blade and the Gambler: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 117-128. Print.

Graham, Melanie. “Many Happy Returns.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 376-379. Print.

Harbinson, W. A. Iconic Voices #3: Norman Mailer. Custom Books Publishing, 2012. Kindle.

Holdsworth, Angela. “Boris or Ken? Just be thankful it’s not Norman.” Times 3 May 2012: 45. Print.

Hopler, Jay. “After Surgery, My Wife Helps Me into the Garden Where I Sit for Some Little Time Brooding on My Present Situation.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 373. Print.

——— . “Glose for Hart Crane.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 372. Print.

Hughes, Evan. ”Norman Mailer Runs for Mayor, Stabs Wife.” New York 9 Apr. 2012: 49. Print. This brief piece ran as part of this issue’s review of New York’s history of scandal.

Kaufmann, Donald L. “The Mailer Legacy and Aleatory Burroughs.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 317-325. Print.

Knight, Lania. “Adaptation: Re-Creating the Novel as a Stage Play.” Diss. U of Missouri, 2010. DAI 73.3 (2012): item DA3488618. Print. This text focuses on the adaptation of Norman Mailer’s The Deer Park for the stage.

Kramer, Andrew E. “Peeking Through Years, And the Wall, at Oswald.” New York Times 3 Nov. 2012, late ed.: A7. Print.

Leeds, Barry H. “Literature as Life; Life as Literature: Mailer’s Existential Shout of Defiance in An American Dream.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 149-157. Print.

Lennon, J. Michael. “Gore and Norman in Provincetown.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 58-60. Print.

——— . “Mailer is Back.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 67-76. Print.

Malvern, Jack. “Feuding writers put poison pens away in flourish of mutual praise.” The Times 12 Nov. 2012: 4. Print.

Mann, Fraser. “Never So Simple: Why We Should Learn from Mailer’s Engagement with Complexity.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 326-341. Print.

McGinty, Stephen. “Art of the literary punch-up.” The Scotsman 17 Nov. 2012: 28. Print.

McKinley, Maggie. “Mailer’s Modern Myth: Reexamining Violence and Masculinity in An American Dream.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 158-171. Print.

Michelson, Jeffrey. “The Norman Mailer/José Torres Saturday Morning Boxing Club and my war with Ryan O’Neal.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 81-94. Print.

Mosser, Jason. “Norman Mailer: Genre Bender.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 267-274. Print.

——— . The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson and Joan Didion: Creating New Reporting Styles. Lewiston: Mellen Press, 2012. Print.

Nakjavani, Erik. “The Living George Plimpton: Taking a Sporting Stance between Hemingway and Mailer.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 172-190. Print.

O’Hagan, Andrew. “The Martyrdom of Mailer.” The Guardian Weekend 30 Aug. 1997: 11-21. Rpt. in The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 342-357. Print.

Oommen, Susan. “To Deliver the Metaphor: Intent and Rhetoric in Norman Mailer.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 309-316. Print.

Pantano, Daniele. “Vaudeville.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 375. Print.

Peterson, Britt. “Marilyn Still Bewitches Biographers.” Chronicle of Higher Education 20 July 2012: B14-5. Print.

Plimpton, George. Interview by Erik Nakjavani. “Reporting with the Inner Eye: George Plimpton on Writing and Sports.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 191-203. Print.

Red, Christian. “Ali Hails Mailer: It’s storming for Norman with Greatest punching in.” Daily News 5 Oct. 2012: 98. Print.

Samaras, Nicholas. “Why Mailer Matters.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 374. Print.

Shuihe, Ji and Chen Na. “Jewish Identity in Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead.” Foreign Literature Studies 34.1 (2012): 54-61. Print.

Speed, Allen. “Saturdays with Norman, circa 1981.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 380-381. Print.

Stoneback, H. R. “From Hem to Eternity: James Jones, Hemingway, Paris—Meditation & Memoir.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 204-231. Print.

Stratton, Richard. “Mailer Matters.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 61-66. Print.

Styron, Rose. “William Styron to Norman Mailer: Two Letters.” New York Review of Books 25 Oct. 2012: 30-31. Print. Two letters are introduced from William Styron to Norman Mailer concerning the comments of Jim Jones on Mailer’s The Deer Park.

Sutherland, John. “Norman Mailer.” Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives. New Haven: Yale UP, 2012. 596-598. Print.

Tanenhaus, Sam. “Master Polemicists From Similar Roots.” New York Times 2 Aug. 2012: 1. Print. This text focuses on several 20^th century literary giants, including Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer and James Baldwin, whose textual achievements were sometimes overshadowed by their expansive cultural personas.

Tevlin, Rory. “FBI’S Most Wanted (Celebs): Unlikely Stars who Filled Spooks’ Files.” Mirror 11 Feb. 2012: 10. Print.

Weiner, Rex. “A Stowaway to the Thanatosphere: My Voyage Beyond Apollo with Norman Mailer.” The Paris Review. The Paris Review, 31 Dec. 2012. Web.

Whalen-Bridge, John. “Why Mailer Mattered, Why Mailer Matters.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 77-80. Print.

“Writing Award Winners Announced.” English Journal 102.2 (2012): 70. Print. This brief piece announces the winners of the Muhammad Ali Writing Award on Ethics and the 2012 Norman Mailer Writing Awards.

Zinck, Shannon L. “Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2011.” The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 395-407. Print.

Book and Film Reviews

Arnold, Sue. “Sue Arnold’s choice: Marilyn, by Norman Mailer, read by Jeff Harding.” Rev. of Marilyn, by Norman Mailer. Guardian 8 Sept. 2012: 10. Print.

Bernstein, Mashey. “Missing the Contradictions.” Rev. of Norman Mailer: The Self-Appointed Messiah, by Gwendolyn Chabrier. The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 361-364. Print.

Burgess, Anthony. “Through Gary Gilmore’s Eyes.” Rev. of The Executioner’s Song, by Norman Mailer. The Observer 11 Nov. 1979. Rpt. in The Observer 11 Nov. 2012: 6. Print.

Ferguson, Trevor. “Clued In: 12 Masters of Suspense Unearth Buried Treasures of the Genre.” Rev. of Tough Guys Don’t Dance, by Norman Mailer. Globe and Mail 19 May 2012: R17. Print.

Hiett, John. “Norman Mailer: The American.” Rev. of Norman Mailer: The American, dir. Joseph Mantegna. Library Journal 137.13 (2012): 48. Print.

Horsford, Simon. Rev. of Norman Mailer: The American, dir. Joseph Mantegna. Daily Telegraph 3 July 2012: 28. Print.

Hudson, Mark. Rev. of Norman Mailer: The American, dir. Joseph Mantegna. Telegraph.co.uk. Telegraph, 4 July 2012. Web.

Leonard, John. “Norman Mailer’s Harlot’s Ghost.” Rev. of Harlot’s Ghost, by Norman Mailer. Reading for My Life: Writings, 1958-2008. Ed. Sue Leonard. New York: Viking, 2012. 134–146. Print. Rpt. of “The Trouble with Harry.” The Nation 18 Nov. 1991: 622–629.

Pevere, Geoff. “Radical reinvention, Sixties-style, shot through two lenses.” Rev. of Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer, dir. Norman Mailer, and Quadrophenia, dir. Franc Roddam. The Globe and Mail 21 Sept. 2012: R3. Print.

Shuman, Michael L. “Debauchery Duet.” Rev. of Laura Meets Jeffrey: Both Sides of an Erotic Memoir, by Jeffrey Michelson and Laura Bradley. The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 365–371. Print.

Stratton, Richard. “Marilyn Close Up.” Rev. of Marilyn & Me: A Photographer’s Memories, by Lawrence Schiller. The Mailer Review 6.1 (2012): 358–360. Print.