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Morris Dickstein
Graduate Center, City University of New York
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J. Michael Lennon
Wilkes University
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Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, correspondence, Morris Dickstein, J. Michael Lennon, Lawrence Schiller, The Strand Bookstore
Abstract
A discussion of Norman Mailer’s recently published letters (J. Michael Lennon, editor, Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, Random House, 2014) that took place at The Strand Bookstore, New York, New York, on January 22, 2015. Larry Schiller, founder of The Norman Mailer Center, moderated the discussion.
Author Biographies
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Morris Dickstein, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a widely published reviewer and critic, perhaps best known for his book on the 1960s, Gates of Eden (1977; reissued, 2015), and Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2009), both of which were nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Dancing in the Dark also received the 2010 Ambassador Book Award in American Studies from the English-Speaking Union. His memoir, Why Not Say What Happened: A Sentimental Education, appeared in 2015. Other recent books include Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945–1970 (2002) and A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World (2005). He has served as vice-chair of the New York Council for the Humanities, on the board of the National Book Critics Circle, and as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.
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J. Michael Lennon, Wilkes University
J. Michael Lennon is the late Norman Mailer’s archivist, editor, authorized biographer. Norman Mailer: A Double Life appeared in 2013, and Selected Letters of Norman Mailer in 2104. His work has appeared in Paris Review, New Yorker, New York, Times Literary Supplement, Creative Nonfiction, NYRB, Mailer Review, Playboy, Hippocampus, and Provincetown Arts, among others. Currently, he is working on a new book, “Sixteen Handshakes to Shakespeare: From Bishop to the Bard.”
