A Note on Norman Mailer’s “The Last Night”

Authors

  • J. Michael Lennon Wilkes University Author

Keywords:

“The Last Night”, science fiction, Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy, screenplay, Cannibals and Christians

Abstract

J. Michael Lennon introduces “The Last Night,” Mailer’s only mature science-fiction story and the last short story he wrote, tracing its origins to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Mailer’s renewed admiration for John F. Kennedy, and noting the unpublished screenplay version Mailer later developed with Norris Church.

Author Biography

  • J. Michael Lennon, Wilkes University

    J. Michael Lennon is the late Norman Mailer’s archivist, editor, and 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. He has recently edited two volumes of Norman Mailer’s work from the 1960s for the Library of America.

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Published

2019-10-10

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Reflections

How to Cite

Lennon, J. Michael. “A Note on Norman Mailer’s ‘The Last Night’”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, p. 8, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/681.