Abby H. P. Werlock is preparing a 2-volume Companion to the American Novel for Facts on File, sequel to the award-winning The Facts on File Companion to the American Short Story, and still has openings for essays on specific American fiction titles. She is particularly interested in entries on Norman Mailer’s An American Dream, Executioner’s Song, and The Naked and the Dead.
Essays written in a lively, jargonfree style, should be approximately 1000 words exclusive of bibliography. Authors are encouraged to include original and intriguing interpretations of the novels.
The deadline is 20 October 2004. The publisher, Facts on File, plans to include this book in its forthcoming literature database.
For further information and a list of other available titles, please contact me via any of the methods listed below.
Abby H. P. Werlock
Associate Professor of American Literature Emerita,
St Olaf College
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In Works and Days
- An American Dream — Mailer’s fourth novel and his first in nine years: the story of Stephen Rojack, who murders his wife and spends 32 hours evading consequence and confronting the Devil.
- The Naked and the Dead — Mailer’s debut novel, a 721-page Pacific-theater war novel published by Rinehart on 6 May 1948, 62 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, Pulitzer-nominated, and…