My Friend, Norman

Authors

tribute, friendship, correspondence, mentorship, Jewish identity, personal legacy

Mashey Bernstein, University of California, Santa Barbara

Mashey Bernstein teaches in the Writing Program and the Film and Media Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a PhD on Mailer from the same institution. He has written on various aspects of Mailer’s work for Studies in American-Jewish Literature, the London Jewish Chronicle, the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle and San Francisco Review of Books. He maintained close ties with Mailer since 1975 when they first met in a bar in New York City.