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Norman Mailer: Playboy Magazine Heavyweight

Although sometimes purchased because of a playmate’s allure, most Playboy magazines get read cover-to-cover, confirming the quip “I buy it for the articles.” Because less than ten percent of each issue contains nudity, the majority of monthly pages are well-known editorial features, such as the Playboy Advisor or the Playboy Interview, advice columns, cultural commentary, humor and literary selections. Using Esquire as a model, Hugh Hefner published fiction to position Playboy as more than amere “skin-magazine.”

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Call for Papers: Review Volume 6

The Mailer Review is calling for papers on “Why Mailer Matters,” a special emphasis in the sixth volume of the Review (Fall 2012). Papers dealing with any aspect of Mailer and other figures are also encouraged.

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Preview: The Review 2011

I am pleased to inform you that we are well along in preparing the 2011 issue. We will feature memorial tributes to Norris Church Mailer, who tragically passed away in November of 2010. Norris was a stalwart supporter of the Review, and she will always be in our thoughts and pages.

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Literary Warriors

Literary Warriors

Masculinity, toughness, fantasy women, violence, war, boxing, guns – these are the themes that unite two of the 20th Century’s greatest writers, Norman Mailer and Ernest Hemingway. The latest issue of The Mailer Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, a publication of the University of South Florida and the Norman Mailer Society, puts them on the [...]

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Dahlby Essay

Editor’s note: Tracy Dahlby’s essay (The Mailer Review, Fall 2009) included errors that were introduced in the typesetting process. The following is the correct version of the essay.

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Review Excerpt 1

The following is an excerpt of J. Michael Lennon’s conversation with Lawrence Schiller in The Mailer Review, Volume 3. This is the first of several features we will be posting from the latest volume of the Review. Check back often for the newest installment.

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New <i>Mailer Review</i>, Volume 3

New Mailer Review, Volume 3

One of the century’s greatest American authors — Norman Mailer — has entered the pantheon of great writers, leaving a legacy that will offer scholars, researchers and fans endless territory for exploration, conjecture and sparkling conversation — much like when Mailer was alive.  The latest issue of The Mailer Review presents scholars, writers and critics [...]

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Call for Papers: Review Issue 4

Norman Mailer / Ernest Hemingway Call for Papers: 2010 The Mailer Review is calling for papers on “Norman Mailer / Ernest Hemingway,” a special emphasis in the fourth volume of the Review (Fall 2010) will be devoted to this topic. Papers dealing with any aspect of Hemingway-Mailer are encouraged. We are also interested in essays that [...]

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