The Mailer Review
Phillip Sipiora
Michael L. Shuman
Gerald R. Lucas
John Lennon
Scott Neumeister
Shannon L. Zinck
Ashley Jean Baptiste, Roxanne Null, Breonna Martinez
J. Michael Lennon, Chair of Editorial Board (Wilkes University), Robert J. Begiebing (Southern New Hampshire University), John Whalen-Bridge (National University of Singapore), Philip Bufithis (Shepherd University), Christopher Busa (Founder and Editor of Provincetown Arts Press), Morris Dickstein (Graduate Center, City University of New York), Laura Adams Dunham (Independent Scholar), Michael Glenday (The Open University, United Kingdom), Andrew Gordon (University of Florida), Hunt Hawkins (University of South Florida), Michael Millgate (University of Toronto), Christopher Ricks (Boston University), Phillip Sipiora (University of South Florida), Thomas F. Staley (Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin), Barbara Mailer Wasserman (Memoirist).
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The Norman Mailer Society Executive Board Members
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Phillip Sipiora, Editor, The Mailer Review
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