The Curious Story of Norman Mailer’s Engagement with Short Fiction

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An analysis of strategic issues in Norman Mailer’s short fiction.

Victor Peppard, University of South Florida

Victor Peppard is Professor of Russian at the University of South Florida in Tampa, where he has taught since 1975 and was chair of World Languages from 2000 to 2011. He received a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literatures from the University of Michigan in 1974 and taught Russian at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in 1973 and 1974. Peppard has published on Russian language pedagogy and on such writers as Isaak Babel’, Gogol’, Dostoevsky, Norman Mailer, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, Yury Olesha, and Vladimir Voinovich, as well as on the history of Russian and Soviet sport. He has also published several short stories.