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A Remembrance through the Review

Carloyn Kellogg remembers Norman Mailer’s 86th birthday by lauding volume two of The Mailer Review. In “Norman Mailer Is Not 86 Today,” she quotes passages from the Review and writes: I’d be happy if authors today appeared as frequently in the news, were as important cultural voices, or tried to run, obnoxiously, for mayor of [...]

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A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels

A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels

The following is an excerpt from The Mailer Review Volume 2 of Robert J. Begiebing and Philip Bufithis’ essay. They begin: Mailer’s nonfiction has been honored with praises and prizes. One might sensibly argue that it contributed to a revolution in the consciousness of his time. But his fiction is still a matter of vigorous [...]

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Anshen’s “A New Politics”

Anshen’s “A New Politics”

Excerpted below are the first two pages of David Anshen’s “A New Politics of Form in Harlot’s Ghost” from The Mailer Review, Volume 2. Support the Society and the Review and purchasing a copy. We’ll be publishing more excerpts over the next couple of weeks. Keep checking back.

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Call for Papers: Review Issue 3

The editors of The Mailer Review are particularly interested in essays that focus on Norman Mailer’s film work and his non-fiction, especially Oswald’s Tale. Please send abstract to Phillip Sipiora <psipiora [at] gmail [dot] com> by January 15, 2009. Completed ms. by March 01. Length flexible. MLA style documentation. All submissions as MS WORD attachments.

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Review, Volume 2, Table of Contents

Below is the complete table of contents for The Mailer Review, Volume 2.

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Review 2008 Press Release

Review 2008 Press Release

Where might you expect to find television interviewer Charlie Rose, magazine editor Tina Brown, authors Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, E. L. Doctorow, Gunter Grass, Christopher Hitchens, William Kennedy, David Ebershoff, Lawrence Schiller and actor Sean Penn together with noted Random House’s Gina Centrello, attorney Sam Radin, poker player Peter Alson, Congressman Neil Abercrombie, attorney Ivan [...]

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The New York Times Mentions the Review

Dwight Garner, over at the NYTimes blog Paper Cuts, mentions The Mailer Review in a recent post: For anyone who’s interested, a fascinating testament to Mailer’s headlong life has has arrived on newsstands – the inaugural issue of The Mailer Review, a product of the University of South Florida and the Norman Mailer Society. The [...]

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Announcing the Mailer Review

The inaugural issue of The Mailer Review contains an excerpt from Mr. Mailer’s unpublished 1942 play, “The Naked and the Dead”; sixteen of his letters from the 1950s; William Kennedy’s address to the 2006 Mailer Society conference; reviews of The Castle in the Forest by Robert Begiebing, Barbara Probst Solomon, Christopher Ricks and Phillip Sipiora; [...]

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