Reflections

Authors

  • Phillip Sipiora University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

editorial, The Mailer Review, Beverly Bentley, Chris Busa, interviews

Abstract

The editor introduces Volume 14, thanking the staff and noting the issue’s memorial tributes to Beverly Bentley and Chris Busa, essays linking Mailer with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Joseph Conrad, and three interviews: Legs McNeil’s 1979 conversation with Mailer, J. Michael Lennon’s 1983 interview with Mailer on James Jones, and a 2020 conversation with Society president Maggie McKinley.

Author Biography

  • Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida

    Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentiethcentury literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the author or editor of five books, including Mind of An Outlaw (Random House, 2013). He has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays, including readings of the films of Wallace Fox, Joseph H. Lewis, Stanley Kubrick, Ida Lupino, Edgar Ulmer, Robert Wiene, and Billy Wilder. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume: Ida Lupino, Filmmaker (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021), and forthcoming essays, “Norman Mailer’s Literary Criticism” in Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge UP, 2021), “Bathos in the Bowery,” in Wallace Fox and Social Protest (U of Edinburgh P, 2021), and “Ethical Encounter(s): Narrative Performance in The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises” (2021).

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Published

2020-10-15

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Reflections

How to Cite

Sipiora, Phillip. “Reflections”. The Mailer Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2020, p. 6, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/717.