Letters in Transit

In Search of the Jewish Norman Mailer

Authors

  • Robert Nason Author

Keywords:

Jewish identity, Jewish American writers, Selected Letters of Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead, The Armies of the Night

Abstract

The recently published Selected Letters of Norman Mailer traces the trajectory of a lifelong engagement with Mailer’s Jewish identity, reminding us that Mailer indeed discussed Jewish issues in his novels, nonfiction, and many interviews. The letters offer us a fresh opportunity to look back upon some of that work and see the Jewish (and non-Jewish) Mailer that emerges. This essay examines important Jewish connections in Mailer’s works.

Author Biography

  • Robert Nason

    Robert Nason is a freelance writer in New York City who has written about literature and film for the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and The Weekly Standard. He holds a degree in English from Columbia University.

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Published

2016-09-28

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2016): 10th Anniversary Issue

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Nason, Robert. “Letters in Transit: In Search of the Jewish Norman Mailer”. The Mailer Review, vol. 10, no. 1, Sept. 2016, pp. 240–260, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/572.