Reflections

Authors

  • Phillip Sipiora University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Mailer Studies, science fiction, Norris Church Mailer, comparative criticism, Chris Busa, Wilbur F. Hayes

Abstract

The editor’s column introduces Volume 13, assembled remotely after the pandemic closed the university. It highlights the reprint of Mailer’s 1963 science-fiction story “The Last Night” with Michael Shuman’s contextual essay, J. Michael Lennon’s conversation on the state of Mailer Studies, an excerpt from Bonnie Culver’s play Norris, and comparative essays by Robert Begiebing and Raymond Vince that launch a series pairing Mailer with other major figures, along with the issue’s fiction and poetry. It also marks the deaths of Chris Busa and Wilbur F. Hayes and welcomes Gary D. Rhodes to the editorial staff.

Author Biography

  • Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida

    Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume: Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020), “Bathos and Pathos in the Bowery” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (Edinburgh UP, 2020), and “Mailer’s Literary Criticism” in Norman Mailer in Context. Ed. Maggie McKinley (Cambridge UP, 2021).

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Published

2019-10-10

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Reflections

How to Cite

Sipiora, Phillip. “Reflections”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, pp. 5–7, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/680.