User:Grlucas/Norman Mailer Bibliography

This incomplete Norman Mailer bibliography is meant as both a reference for citation consistency throughout the articles dealing with Mailer as his works, and as a sandbox to build bibliographies for individual entries. I created it for my fall 2018 survey of Norman Mailer's work.

Mailer's Works

For a complete list of primary works, see Norman Mailer bibliography.

Mailer, Norman (1992) [1959]. Advertisements for Myself. Cambridge: Harvard UP. OCLC 771096402. OL 22314814M.
Mailer, Norman (1965). An American Dream. New York: Vintage. ISBN 0375700706. OL 5917250M.
Mailer, Norman (1983). Ancient Evenings. Boston: Little Brown. ISBN 0316544108. OL 21269260M.
Mailer, Norman (1968). The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History. New York: The New American library. ISBN 0451140702. OL 15367714M.
Mailer, Norman (1997) [1951]. Barbary Shore. New York: Vintage. ISBN 0375700390. OL 661248M.
Mailer, Norman; Mailer, John Buffalo (2006). The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 1560258241.
Mailer, Norman (1966). Cannibals and Christians. New York: Pinnacle.
Mailer, Norman (2007). The Castle in the Forest. New York: Random House.
Mailer, Norman (1997) [1955]. The Deer Park. New York: Vintage. ISBN 0375700404. OL 662776M.
Mailer, Norman (1979). The Executioner's Song. Boston: Little, Brown.
Mailer, Norman (1972). Existential Errands. New York: Little, Brown. OCLC 962981418.
Mailer, Norman (1975). The Fight. Boston: Little, Brown.
Mailer, Norman (1997). The Gospel According to the Son. New York: Random House.
Mailer, Norman (1973). Marilyn: A Biography. New York: Grosset & Dunlap.
Mailer, Norman (1948). The Naked and the Dead. New York: Rinehart. OL 6030362M.
Mailer, Norman (1964). The Presidential Papers. New York: Bantam. OL 24217241M.
Mailer, Norman (1971). Of a Fire on the Moon. New York: Random House. ISBN 0553390619. OL 24370431M.
Mailer, Norman (2007). On God: An Uncommon Conversation. New York: Random House. OL 11586130M.
Mailer, Norman (1982) [1963]. The Presidential Papers. New York: Dell. OCLC 605925608.
Mailer, Norman (2003). The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing. New York: Random House. ISBN 1588362868.
Mailer, Norman (1998). The Time of Our Time. New York: Random House. ISBN 0375500979.
Mailer, Norman (2003). Why Are We at War?. New York: Random House. OL 3684826M.
Mailer, Norman (1967). Why Are We in Vietnam?. New York: Random House. OL 24223951M.

Susan Mailer

BookTrib (November 4, 2019). "'In Another Place' Paints Portrait of Norman Mailer as a Father". BookTrib. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
DePolo, Nicole (October 19, 2019). "Review: In Another Place: With and Without my Father Norman Mailer by Susan Mailer". Hippocampus Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-20.
Engster, Jim (host) (October 21, 2019). Kim Neustrom, Lydia Pine, Susan Mailer. Talk Louisiana. WRKF.
Funke, Erika (host) (November 8, 2019). Susan Mailer. Art Scene. WVIA.
Lennon, J. Michael (October 1, 2019). "INTERVIEW: Susan Mailer, author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer". Hippocampus Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
Milam, Stan (host) (October 25, 2019). Susan Mailer Author of In Another Place and Daughter of Norman. Stan Milam Show. WCLO.

Mailer Critical Resources

For references on individual works, see their respective Wikipedia entries. They are also on Works & Days.

Bibliographies

Adams, Laura (1974). Norman Mailer: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow. OCLC 462662793.
Lennon, J. Michael (April 24, 2008). "Norman Mailer by the Decade: An Epistolary Slant". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2017-09-05.
Lennon, J. Michael (2008). "Norman Mailer's Best Sellers". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 270–71. ISSN 1936-4679. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
Lennon, J. Michael; Lennon, Donna Pedro (2018). Lucas, Gerald R. (ed.). Norman Mailer: Works and Days (Revised and Expanded ed.). Atlanta: Norman Mailer Society. ISBN 9781732651906.

Biographical Studies

Dearborn, Mary V. (1999). Mailer: A Biography. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0395736552.
Lennon, J. Michael (2013). Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1439150214.
Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (2014). The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0812986099.
Mailer, Norman (October 6, 2008). "In the Ring". The New Yorker. Life and Letters. Retrieved 2018-09-23. A sampling of Mailer's letters.
Manso, Peter (2008). Mailer: His Life and Times. New York: Washington Square Press. OCLC 209700769.
Menand, Louis (October 21, 2013). "The Norman Invasion: the Crazy Career of Norman Mailer". The Critics. A Critic at Large. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 33. pp. 86–95. Retrieved 2017-06-11.
Mills, Hilary (1982). Mailer: A Biography. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0880150025.
Rollyson, Carl (1991). The Lives of Norman Mailer. New York: Paragon House. ISBN 1557781931.

Film

Chaiken, Michael (August 30, 2012). "Eclipse Series 35: Maidstone and Other Films by Norman Mailer". Criterion Collection. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
Scott, A. O. (July 20, 2007). "Norman Mailer, Unbound and on Film: Revisiting His Bigger-Than-Life Selves". The New York Times. Movies. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
Smallwood, Christine (September 25, 2012). "Norman Mailer, Auteur". The New Yorker. Page-Turner. Retrieved 2018-09-22.

Critical Studies

A

Adams, Laura (1976). Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer. Ohio UP. ISBN 0821401823. Strong discussion of early narrators.
Adams, Laura, ed. (1974). Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press. ISBN 0804690669.
Aldridge, John W. (1972) [1966]. Time to Murder and Create: The Contemporary Novel in Crisis. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press. ISBN 9780836926828. OCLC 613294003. Contains Aldridge's important essay on An American Dream.

B

Bailey, Jennifer (1979). Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist. New York: Harper & Row.
Begiebing, Robert J. (1980). Acts of Regeneration: Allegory and Archetype in the Works of Norman Mailer. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P. ISBN 9780826203106. OCLC 185966372. Fine discussion of Mailer's "heroic consciousness".
Braudy, Leo, ed. (1972). Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall. OCLC 902005354.
Bufithis, Philip H. (1978). Norman Mailer. Modern Literature Monographs. New York: Frederick Unger. ISBN 9780804420976. OCLC 902507100. Perhaps the most readable and reliable study of Mailer's early work.

F

Foster, Richard Jackson (1968). Norman Mailer. University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. Vol. 73. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P. ISBN 9781452910970. OCLC 7682195.
Glenday, Michael (1995). Norman Mailer. London: Macmillan. OCLC 902229084.
Kennedy, William (1993). Riding the Yellow Trolley Car. New York: Viking. ISBN 1504042107.

L

Leeds, Barry H. (2002). The Enduring Vision of Norman Mailer. Bainbridge Island, Wash.: Pleasure Boat Studio. OCLC 845519995.
Leeds, Barry H. (1969). The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer. New York: NYU Press. OCLC 474531468.
Leigh, Nigel (1990). Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer. London: Macmillan. OCLC 925280333.
Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (1986). Critical Essays on Norman Mailer. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co. ISBN 0816186952.
Lennon, J. Michael (2003). "The Naked and the Dead". In Parini, Jay (ed.). American Writers: Classics. Gale. pp. 246–50. ISBN 0684312689.
Lennon, J. Michael (2008). "The Novel Was All". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 51–52. ISSN 1936-4679. Retrieved 2017-08-25.
Lucid, Robert F., ed. (1971). Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work. Boston: Little Brown. OCLC 902036360.

M

Menand, Louis (January 5, 2009). "It Took a Village". The New Yorker. Critic at Large. Retrieved 2017-09-16.
Merrill, Robert (1978). Norman Mailer. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0805772545.
Merrill, Robert (1992). Norman Mailer Revisited. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 080573967X.
Millett, Kate (2016) [1970]. "Norman Mailer". Sexual Politics. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 314–335. ISBN 9780231174251.
Morris, Willie (1994). New York Days. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0316583987.
Morrow, Stephen (2008). "Norman Mailer: A Requiem". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 146–52. ISSN 1936-4679. Retrieved 2017-08-29.

P

Poirier, Richard (1972). Norman Mailer. Modern Masters. New York: Viking Press. OCLC 473033417. One of the best studies of Mailer's writing, tracking his career through the early seventies.
Rhodes, Chip (2010). "Hollywood Fictions". In McNamara, Kevin R. (ed.). Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Los Angeles. Cambridge UP. pp. 135–144. ISBN 978-1-234-56789-7.

S

Schoenvogel, Robert (2016). "Mailer, Norman: The Naked and the Dead". 20th-Century American Bestsellers. U of Virginia, Dept. of English. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
Schultz, Kevin S. (2015). Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. ISBN 978-0393088717.
Wenke, Joseph (2014) [1987]. Mailer's America. Hanover, NH; London: University Press of New England for University of Connecticut. ISBN 978-0874513936.
Whalen-Bridge, John, ed. (2010). Norman Mailer's Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest. Springer. ISBN 978-0230109056.
Whalen-Bridge, John (1998). Political Fiction and the American Self. Urbana: U of Illinois P. ISBN 9780252066887. OCLC 260090021. Subtle examination of Mailer's dual aptitude of representing and resisting American mythologies.

Interviews

Grace, Matthew; Roday, Steve (1973). "Mailer on Mailer: An Interview". New Orleans Review. 3: 229–34.
Gross, Terry (November 12, 2007). "An Interview with Norman Mailer". Fresh Air. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
Lennon, J. Michael, ed. (1988). Conversations with Norman Mailer. Jackson and London: U of Mississippi P. ISBN 9780878053520. OCLC 643635248.
Mailer, Norman (June 25, 1995). "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery". Booknotes (Interview). Interviewed by Brian Lamb. Retrieved 2018-10-03.
Mailer, Norman (January 1968). "The Playboy Interview". Playboy (Interview). Interviewed by Paul Carroll. Retrieved 2018-10-25. Sex is not only a divine and beautiful activity; it's a murderous activity. People kill each other in bed. Some of the greatest crimes ever committed were in bed. And no weapons were used.
O'Hagan, Andrew (Summer 2007). "Norman Mailer, The Art of Fiction No. 193". The Paris Review (181).
Sipiora, Phillip (2013). "The Complications of Norman Mailer: A Conversation with J. Michael Lennon". The Mailer Review. 7 (1): 23–65. Retrieved 2018-09-22.

Norman Mailer Society Press

Biebel, Mary Therese (November 15, 2018). "Remembering Norman Mailer". Times Leader. Features. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
"Matthew Hinton named to executive board of Norman Mailer Society". The Dallas Post. Local. November 12, 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-16.

Obituaries, Remembrances, and Tributes

Cohen, Patricia (April 10, 2008). "At Tribute, Mailer Children Recall a Family Man". The New York Times. Books. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
Corrigan, Maureen (November 12, 2007). "Mailer Remembered as Controversial, Provocative". NPR. Fresh Air. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
Dyer, Geoff (May 24, 2014). "Norman Mailer's A Fire on the Moon: a giant leap for reportage". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
Hitchens, Christopher (November 11, 2007). "Norman Mailer: Remembering the Pint-Size Jewish Fireplug". Slate. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
McGrath, Charles (November 10, 2007). "Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Dies at 84". The New York Times. Books. Retrieved 2017-09-10.
Neary, Lynn (November 10, 2007). "Norman Mailer, Author and Social Critic, Dies at 84". NPR. Weekend Edition. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
Park, Bryant (November 12, 2007). "The Heavy Weight of Norman Mailer". NPR. The Bryant Park Project. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
Simon, Scott (November 10, 2007). "A Tribute to Norman Mailer". NPR. Weekend Edition Saturday. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
Sipiora, Phillip (2008). "Carnegie Hall Memorial For Norman Mailer, April 9, 2008". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 11–12. Retrieved 2017-09-10.

Politics

Denby, David (August 26, 2018). "A Great Writer at the 1968 Democratic Disaster". The New Yorker. Cultural Comment. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
"Norman Mailer and Jimmy Breslin made headlines with 'odd couple' NYC political campaign". New York Daily News. August 24, 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-22.

Reference

Lennon, J. Michael (Fall 2008). "Abbreviations of Books By and About Norman Mailer". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 518–519. OCLC 86175502. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
Lennon, J. Michael (Fall 2008). "Norman Mailer's Bestsellers". The Mailer Review. 2 (1): 270–271. OCLC 86175502. Retrieved 2018-09-17.

Reviews (General)

Beha, Christopher (December 2013). "Does Mailer Matter? The Young Writer and the Last Literary Celebrity". Harper's. Reviews. Retrieved 2017-08-29. Review of Norman Mailer: A Double Life, and The Mind of an Outlaw.
Bloom, Harold (April 28, 1983). "Norman in Egypt". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2017-08-27. A review of Ancient Evenings.
Cheuse, Alan (October 26, 2013). "Norman Mailer, Warts And All, In 'A Double Life'". NPR. Book Reviews. Retrieved 2018-10-22.
Campbell, James (November 16, 2007). "Paris Edition". Times Literary Supplement. NB. The Mailer Review (Vol. 1) is reviewed.
Campbell, James (October 10, 2008). "Vidal Revised". Times Literary Supplement. NB. p. 36. The Mailer Review (Vol. 2) is reviewed.
Campbell, James (March 4, 2011). "Critical Masses". Times Literary Supplement. NB. p. 32. The Mailer Review (Vol. 4) is reviewed.
Campbell, James (February 10, 2012). "All Aglow". Times Literary Supplement. NB. p. 32. The Mailer Review (Vol. 5) is reviewed.
Campbell, James (February 8, 2013). "Pathological". Times Literary Supplement. NB. The Mailer Review (Vol. 6) is reviewed.
Didion, Joan (October 7, 1979). "I Want to Go Ahead and Do It". The New York Times. Books. Retrieved 2017-08-27. A review of The Executioner's Song.
Gopnik, Adam (July 11, 2018). "The Strange Prophecies in Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night". The New Yorker. Second Read. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
Kazin, Alfred (May 5, 1968). "The Trouble He's Seen". The New York Times. Books. Retrieved 2017-08-27. A review of Armies of the Night.
Kirshner, Jonathan (September 19, 2018). "Confessions of a Left-Conservative: Norman Mailer in the Library of America". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-10-01. Review of LOA Mailer.
Mar, Alex (2013). "The Female Author's Love for the Proudly Sexist Norman Mailer". The Aesthete. Culture. Retrieved 2017-09-22. The one man who has ever made me wish I had a penis is Norman Mailer.
Poirier, Richard (June 10, 1983). "In Pyramid and Palace". Times Literary Supplement. p. 592.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: location (link) Ancient Evenings.
Siegel, Lee (January 21, 2007). "Maestro of the Human Ego". New York Times Book Review. Retrieved 2017-08-26. A Castle in the Forest.
Vidal, Gore (August 3, 2012). "The Norman Mailer Syndrome". LA Times. Retrieved 2018-09-22. This review of Advertisements for Myself originally appeared in The Nation on January 2, 1960.

Web

Andrews, Mea (October 27, 2016). "What It Means to Be a Hipster". The Humanities Index. Retrieved 2018-08-23. Norman Mailer's 'The White Negro' and 'An American Dream'
Barsanti, Chris (May 9, 2018). "Should We Still Read Norman Mailer?". The Millions. Retrieved 2018-10-13.
Brody, Richard (October 4, 2011). "Norman Mailer's True Fiction". The New Yorker. Culture. Retrieved 2018-09-22. Mailer may well simply have been, by temperament, more of a philosopher than a fictioneer . . . a writer whose ideas and whose own voice—and whose need to assert that voice—take precedence over the flowering of otherness, over the full realization of a world in fiction.
Dean, Eddie (November 17, 2017). "Norman Mailer vs. Big Media". Washington City Paper. Retrieved 2018-11-19. Fifty years ago in D.C., a drunk Norman Mailer declared war on mainstream media for not taking a stand against the war in Vietnam.
Fried, Ronald K. (October 4, 2012). "The Essential Norman Mailer". The Daily Beast. Remedial Reader. Retrieved 2018-09-22. Ron Fried salutes three essential books by the swaggering, macho novelist.
Lethem, Jonathan (October 3, 2011). "Advertisements for Norman Mailer". LA Times. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
Lennon, J. Michael (October 19, 2001). "A Brief History of Norman Mailer". PBS. American Masters. Retrieved 2018-09-22.
Lennon, J. Michael (2003). "Norman Mailer: An Introduction". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2017-09-05. Mailer is the most widely known of living American authors first of all because of the length of his career and his many different and important books. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lennon, J. Michael (December 19, 2013). "Why Mailer Matters". NormanMailer.us. Article: Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-15. He was an innovator, public intellectual, and chronicler of the latter 20th century. {{cite magazine}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lennon, J. Michael; Lennon, Donna Pedro (January 26, 2015). Lucas, Gerald R. (ed.). "Norman Mailer: Works & Days". Norman Mailer: Works & Days. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2017-07-07. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (December 19, 2013) [2009]. "Faust, Mailer, and the Comfort of Evil". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. Norman Mailer famously stated that technology was the work of the devil. Sometimes it's best to keep the devil close.
Lucas, Gerald (February 22, 2014) [2006]. "A Fine Time: Some Thoughts on Mailer Studies and the Humanities in the 21st Century". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (March 21, 2014) [2013]. "The Harbors of the Moon". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2014-08-19. The moon is a major symbol that haunts Rojack throughout Norman Mailer's 1965 novel An American Dream. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (January 29, 2014). "Into Darkness". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. Norman Mailer's portrayal of Gary Gilmore complicates and nuances his life and shows he is more than just a cold-hearted executioner. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (March 21, 2014) [2011]. "Mailer as Novelist". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. Norman Mailer places the novelist in an ethical and existential position of great responsibility. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (September 17, 2014) [2013]. "Mailer's Adverts and Hipster". The White Negro. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. Considering some seminal texts in Mailer's career. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (February 22, 2014) [2012]. "Mailer's Novel(ist): In and Beyond the Late Age of Print". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (March 21, 2014). "The Minuet of Macho". The White Negro. Project Mailer. Norman Mailer's 1959 short story "The Time of Her Time" shows his Hipster at work, but has fun with him at the same time. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (August 28, 2014) [2013]. "Norman's Mailer". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help) In The Armies of the Night Mailer’s multiple personae attempt to get at some sort of truth.
Lucas, Gerald (February 3, 2014) [2008]. "The Southern Baptists, Norman Mailer, and Me". NormanMailer.us. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. My journey as a new academic into the South for my first teaching job. Norman Mailer came with me. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)
Lucas, Gerald (February 27, 2014). "#MailerClass". Teaching Norman Mailer. Project Mailer. Retrieved 2018-08-19. Using social media to teach Norman Mailer. (He so wouldn't approve.) {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |authormask= ignored (|author-mask= suggested) (help)