Norman Mailer’s Pieces and Pontifications

A Note on Its Origins

Authors

  • J. Michael Lennon Wilkes University Author

Keywords:

Pieces and Pontifications, interviews, editing, J. Michael Lennon, Mailer’s editorial notes, literary collaboration

Abstract

J. Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer’s authorized biographer (Norman Mailer: A Double Life, 2013), recounts the editorial process in the assembly of Mailer’s Pieces and Pontifications, published in 1982. This analysis includes Mailer’s detailed, handwritten editorial notes on Lennon’s introduction to the collection.

Author Biography

  • 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 editing two volumes of Mailer’s work from the 1960s for February 2018 publication by the Library of America.

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Published

2018-10-25

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2018)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Lennon, J. Michael. “Norman Mailer’s Pieces and Pontifications: A Note on Its Origins”. The Mailer Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Oct. 2018, pp. 72–83, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/645.