On the State of Mailer Studies

A Conversation with J. Michael Lennon

Authors

  • Phillip Sipiora University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Mailer Studies, archives, Project Mailer, Lipton’s Journal, Library of America, Wilkes University

Abstract

Phillip Sipiora and J. Michael Lennon, Mailer’s authorized biographer and founding president of the Norman Mailer Society, survey the state of Mailer Studies. Lennon recalls his first contacts with Mailer and his unplanned path to becoming Mailer’s archivist, and discusses Works and Days and the digital resources of Project Mailer, the Mailer library and reconstructed Provincetown study at Wilkes University, the forthcoming edition of Lipton’s Journal, the Library of America’s Mailer volumes, Susan Mailer’s memoir, and the role of The Mailer Review in sustaining scholarship on Mailer.

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

Interviews

How to Cite

Sipiora, Phillip. “On the State of Mailer Studies: A Conversation With J. Michael Lennon”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, pp. 46–64, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/685.