... that it has been my pleasure to read in years. Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, University of Notre Dame Mailer: A Biography. By Mary V. Dearborn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1999. viii, 478 pp. $30.00...

..., but the study offers no real surprises. Those interested in Mailer’s life, work, and cultural milieu will also be inter- ested in J. Michael and Donna Pedro Lennon’s Norman Mailer: Works and Days, a thorough bio...

... for Papers: Journal of Modern Literature: Special Issue on Normal Mailer Norman Mailer will turn eighty in 2003. His more than fifty years of achieve- ment will be honored by a special issue of Journal of Modern...

... Styron, and Norman Mailer. Their interest in Mailer’s “The White Negro” (1957) is significant to both of their projects; Gray is attentive to Mailer’s efforts to inspire his “audience from their middle-class obsessions with comfort and the Cold War to pursue a radical and racial innocence...

... Vaught Brogan, University of Notre Dame Mailer: A Biography. By Mary V. Dearborn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1999. viii, 478 pp. $30.00. Norman Mailer: Works and Days. By J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro...

... Vietnam. Bachner shows us how the works of Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, Margaret Atwood, and Marge Piercy all attempt to connect “more affluent white Americans to the reality of violence” in Vietnam through a variety of literary and poetic devices (71). Pyn- chon’s The Crying of Lot 49 (1966...

..., it was not published until several months after she turned twenty-three; it seems unlikely that Houghton Mifflin minded the dust jacket’s implication and the press’s reinforcement that she was still just twenty-two. 10 The publishers’ youth play was generally successful. Vidal, Capote, and Mailer all appeared...

... history of Major’s life and work. American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers. By Jonathan D’Amore. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2012. ix, 197 pp. $80.00. D’Amore says that American life writing provides a unique opportunity to examine postmodernism’s...

... of Excess is thoroughly enjoyable to read because of the steady flow of funny and weird anecdotes it provides about individual artists and their interactions. Readers learn that Norman Mailer once quipped that giving Diane Arbus a camera was “like giving a hand grenade to a baby” (quoted on 274); that Anne...

... to show convincingly that the United States’ idea of itself as a global champion of militarily induced liberalism had its foundation laid in the late nineteenth century, even if the idea came to fruition only in the post–World War II era chronicled by Norman Mailer and Heller. By organizing his...

... to make their way during the years of slavery and segregation. Charles Mar- tin’s primary subject in The White African American Body is the so-called ‘‘white Negronot the black-identified, Beat-era hipster of Norman Mailer’s...

... of symbolic form. Poetry provides, as the Poetry Magazine mailer suggests, temporary respite from the task-induced stress of our daily lives. But the circular doesn’t mention the way in which poetry must compete like any other medium for our ever-diminishing store of deep focus. This is in part what...

... consequence of the National Security State” (144–45); what follows from this claim are impres- sive accounts of just how central the Cold War was for postmodern experimen- tation (E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Denis Johnson, Don DeLillo, Tim O’Brien, Joan Didion; the reading of Robert Coover’s fiction...

... : 20 – 31 . Liu Alan . 2004 . The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information . Chicago : Univ. of Chicago Press . Mailer Norman . 1963 . The Presidential Papers . New York : Putnam’s Sons . McGann Jerome J. 1991 . The Textual Condition...

... writers such as Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud, and even David Mamet in the second half of the twentieth century, decades complicated further by the tortuous legacy of the Holocaust. Rosenberg...

... has played in the author’s own life that offers, along the way, “typewriter” anecdotes about Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Franz Kafka, Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, and others. A final section examines the recent transition from typing to com- puting and the ways in which typewriting...

... in considering narrative identity in relation to a cultural construct I term the celebrity-author . The works of many of Capote’s contemporaries peppered throughout this account (including Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, George Plimpton, and Andy Warhol) are ripe for analysis as serialized transmedia...

.... Economic success is also associated with disciplined mobility for an ex-slave named Limus whose story was used by the Boston Educational Commission for Freedmen. Limus, we read in a fundraising mailer, leads them all in enterprise, and his ambition and consequent prosperity make his example a very useful...

.... The essays demonstrate that the revolutionary climate that began in the fifties, with radical movements such as Civil Rights activism and the birth of psychedelic culture, is inseparable from postmod- ernism’s revolt against high modernism. Some of the authors considered in this volume are Norman Mailer...

..., and Camus (who were embraced by New York intellectuals) to its evolution in the works of Wright, Ellison, Mailer, and photographer Robert Frank and, finally, to its presence in the feminist and political protest move- ments in the 1960s and in contemporary popular culture, particularly in such films...