Introduction

The Site of Memory

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.68910/qqdbvg79

Keywords:

introduction, memory, festschrift, Phillip Sipiora

Abstract

Gerald R. Lucas and Matthew S. Hinton introduce this festschrift for Phillip Sipiora, fifteen pieces chosen from the first fifteen volumes of The Mailer Review. Drawing on Mnemosyne as mother of the Muses, Toni Morrison’s “The Site of Memory,” and the wall of Uruk in Gilgamesh, they argue that keeping memory alive means method rather than reverence, and that Mailer studies came of age under Sipiora’s stewardship when it turned from monument to method. They set out the principles behind the selection and the volume’s five sections.

Author Biographies

  • Gerald R. Lucas, Middle Georgia State University

    Gerald R. Lucas is Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University and editor of The Mailer Review. With J. Michael Lennon and Susan Mailer he co-edited Lipton’s: Norman Mailer’s Marijuana Journal, 1954–55 (Arcade, 2024), and with Maggie McKinley, Reflections: 100 Years of Norman Mailer (Norman Mailer Society, 2023). He edited J. Michael and Donna Pedro Lennon’s Norman Mailer: Works and Days (2018), and has edited Project Mailer, the Society’s digital archive, since 2014. His current work is on Mailer’s short fiction. He took his Ph.D. at the University of South Florida, where he studied with Phillip Sipiora.

  • Matthew S. Hinton, Misericordia University

    Matthew S. Hinton (MA, MFA) was born in the back seat of his great grandmother’s taxi in Wilkes-Barre, PA. He is a playwright and poet, and teaches at Misericordia University. His account of getting a tattoo of Norman Mailer appears in the Summer 2018 issue of Provincetown Arts. He dreams in analog.

The Mailer Review v.16: 20 Years of the Review

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Published

2026-11-04

Issue

Vol. 16 (2026): Special Edition: 20 Years of the Review

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Front Matter

How to Cite

Lucas, Gerald R., and Matthew S. Hinton. “Introduction: The Site of Memory”. The Mailer Review, vol. 16, no. 1, Nov. 2026, p. xiii–xviii, https://doi.org/10.68910/qqdbvg79.