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George Lea, March 17, 1964

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Dear George,George Lea was a writer friend of ’s.
Thanks for your letter. It was practically inspirational, old buck. Actually, I feel very far from being a citizen of the world these days. There’s something about trying to do a novel in eight months which overcomes all the outposts of one’s ego, so that you recoil back on the thing you can do reasonably well, which is to be some kind of half-ass professional. So I don’t feel important these days, I just feel wrung out, worn down, near to written out, scared, like a semi-final fighter at the end of six rounds with two big ones to go. You know what I mean.
	
If you get a chance, drop me a line about the novel you’re working on, and what it’s about.
::::::::::::::::::::Best for now,
::::::::::::::::::::Norman 
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Gerald R. Lucas

is a Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University and the editor of Project Mailer. He serves as Vice-President of the Norman Mailer Society, the Digital Editor of The Mailer Review, and the Society’s webmaster. In 2014, he was a Norman Mailer Fellow where he first theorized and proposed the creation of Project Mailer. Recently, Lucas acted as the editor for J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon’s expanded and updated Norman Mailer: Works and Days, and he created and maintains the digital Humanities project based on the same. 
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Gordon Rayfield

is a screenwriter and playwright. He wrote the Showtime film, Our America, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the prestigious Humanitas Prize for best Long-Form Television writing, as well as an Emmy award and a Writers Guild Award. He previously won Emmy and Writers Guild Awards as co-producer/writer of Stand Up, for CBS School-break Specials. Rayfield has also written for Law & Order, HBO Life Lessons, and other series. His plays, Bitter Friends, Living Proof, Banksters and Fever of Unknown Origin, all premiered off-Broadway in New York City, and have been produced across the U.S., in Canada, Europe and Israel. Bitter Friends was published by Samuel French. He is currently writing an audio comedy series for Audible Originals.
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Gregory Bellow

Gregory Bellow is a retired psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist who
specialized in work with children. He is a graduate of the College and the
School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago. He
holds a Ph.D. from the Sanville Institute for Clinical Social Work and served
on its faculty for thirty years. In retirement, he wrote Saul Bellow’s Heart, a Son’s Memoir.
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Griselda Steiner

Griselda Steiner is a free-lance writer, dramatist, and poet living in New York City. She has written plays and a screenplay that have been given readings in various venues. She continues to publish on aspects of the arts for numerous magazines and online. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals and she performed her work recently at the downtown 92YTribeca café. In the fall of 1968 she was asked by John Wilcox of Other Scenes to interview Rip Torn on his role in the Maidstone. Another version of the interview appeared in Filmmakers Newsletter in 1971.
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Günter Grass

is a prize-winning German author and playwright. He is best known for his first novel The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism, which, along with Cat and Mouse (1963) and Dog Years (1965) form what is known as The Danzig Trilogy. He has received dozens of international awards, and, in 1999, received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His most recent works include Crabwalk (2002) and Peeling the Onion (2007).
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Harvey Breit, February 11, 1964

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Dear Harvey,Mailer became friendly with Harvey Breit, a reporter and novelist who spent summers on Cape Cod. Breit profiled him in the New York Times in June 1951.
Just a note. I’ve been down in the mines working on my novel, five installments now done, three to go—mortal terror all around that I will run out of gas. I must say, each installment gets worse than the one before. Then when I finish, there’s a snow bank of letters around, all the mail that’s accumulated during the month. So I send this off to you in the ill humor of being written out, smoked out, hung over, and in a bitch of a mood about the novel. But I write to you anyway because I wanted to say hello and tell you that we miss you and hope you’ll be back soon.
Outside of work everything’s going along fairly well and New York seems quiet. I hope Mrs. Lowry’s agreeable.
::::::::::::::::::::Salud,
::::::::::::::::::::Norman
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Heather Braun

Heather Braun is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Akron
where she teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature. Her
research and teaching interests include nineteenth-century women writers,
the Victorian doppelgänger, and Adolescent literature. Her book, The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790–1910, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson UP in 2012.
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Hugh S. Manon

Hugh S. Manon (Ph.D. Pittsburgh) is an Associate Professor in the Screen Studies Program at Oklahoma State University where he specializes in Lacanian theory and film noir. He has published in Cinema Journal, Film Criticism, Framework, International Journal of Žižek Studies, and numerous anthologies, including articles on Tod Browning, Edgar G. Ulmer, George Romero, Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity, Michael Haneke’s Caché, and Stanley Kubrick’s films noirs. He is interested in lo-fi and punk representation in relation to the psychodynamics of failure, and is currently developing a book project entitled “Lack and Losslessness: Toward a Lacanian Aesthetics.”
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Hujun Ren

Hujun Ren is Professor of English at Sichuan International Studies University, Chongqing, China. He received his Master of Arts in English Language and Literature from Northwest Normal University in 1998 and his Ph.D. in
English Language and Literature from Nankai University in 2005. His publications
on Norman Mailer include one book (Individualism or Egalitarianism?: A Cultural Critique of Power and Morality in the Fiction of Norman Mailer, Lanzhou: Lanzhou University Press, 2007) and several articles which
appeared in such academic journals as Contemporary Foreign Literature, Foreign Language Education, Foreign Language and Literature and The Mailer Review. He is currently working at a book on Norman Mailer’s novels.
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Ira Sukrungruang

Ira Sukrungruang is the author of the memoirs Southside Buddhist and Talk Thai: The Adventures of Buddhist Boy, and the poetry collection In Thailand It Is Night. He is the coeditor of two anthologies on the topic of obesity: What Are You Looking At? The First Fat Fiction Anthology and Scoot Over, Skinny: The Fat Nonfiction Anthology. He is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Nonfiction Literature, an Arts and Letters Fellowship, and the Emerging Writer Fellowship. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including Post Road, The Sun, and Creative Nonfiction. He is one of the founding editors of Sweet: A Literary Confection, and teaches in the MFA program at University of South Florida and the low-residency MFA program at City University in Hong Kong. For more information about him, please visit: www.buddhistboy.com.
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Irving J. Weiss, August 26, 1965

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Dear Mr. Weiss,A literary host at a radio station in New York, Weiss sought Mailer’s involvement in a couple of literary projects.
By the time your letter was forwarded, it was August 19. But then in any case I couldn’t have heard your reading of de Chazal, since I’ve been up here in Provincetown trying to work on a novel, and don’t get WBAI as far as I know. At any rate, this gives me an opportunity to thank you for your letter, because it’s the first to come from somebody who did not like An American Dream at first and then went through the odd barrier of the book to like it. Most people seemed either to like it very much or to dislike it very much, and make that the end of it.
 	
Also, this is to ask you when and where your translation of Sens-PlastiqueA 1945 collection of unnumbered aphorisms by Malcolm de Chazal that brought him to prominence in France. will appear.
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J. Michael Lennon

is the author of the forthcoming memoir, Mailer’s Last Days: Remembrances of a Life in Literature. He reviews regularly for TLS, and his work has appeared in Mailer Review, Paris Review, NYRB, New Yorker, Modern Fiction Studies, Lifewriting Annual, Chicago Tribune, New England Review, Hippocampus, and Provincetown Arts. He teaches in Wilkes University’s Maslow Graduate Creative Writing Program.
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James Taylor

has a B.A. in Philosophy from UMass-Amherst and an MLS from Emory University. He recently retired from the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System after 31 years of service. During that time, he hosted a weekly television show, interviewing hundred of authors as they passed through Atlanta on national book tours.
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Janis Owens

is a novelist, memoirist, folklorist and premier storyteller. She is a native of West Florida, born in Marianna. She attended the University of Florida, majoring in English and securing a place in Harry Crews’ fabled Creative Writing Workshop. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Southern history, and is the award-winning author of three novels: My Brother Michael, winner of the Chautauqua South Fiction Award for Best Novel, Myra Sims, and The Schooling of Claybird Catts. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Writer’s Digest, the Washington Post and many other publications. Author Pat Conroy has called her,“one of the finest novelists of our time.”
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Jasna Potočnik Topler

finished her studies in the English language and literatures and in Journalism, and obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana. Currently, she holds the position of an Assistant Professor at the University of Maribor. Her field of research includes cultural tourism with its subtypes, languages, tourism and media discourse, and communication. She is the author of several monographs, articles, and an editorial board member of many journals. She has been engaged in several local and international projects. 
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Jason Epstein, March 25, 1965

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Dear Jason,Epstein was the longtime editorial director at Random House, where he was Mailer’s editor after Mailer left Little, Brown for Random House in 1984. He is also a founder of the New York Review of Books and the Library of America.
Your letter was fine, and I’m glad you wrote it to me, for it was clear as well, and so helps to explain why many people don’t like the book. I’ll not try to answer it here except to say that Rojack is neither mad nor sane, but in that extreme state of fatigue and emotional exhaustion where the senses are crystal clear and paranoia substitutes its vertical salience for the horizontal measure of daily reason, and everything takes place somewhere between a fever and a dream. If the action is big enough, one could even feel clear-headed and purposeful in the midst of all this. I think I may have made the error of not emphasizing this condition, of even not writing a small essay about what it was like. It is, after all, not insanity but an existential state, but I may have been wrong in assuming that people would recognize it as equivalent to some kind of a crisis in their own lives. Philip,Philip Rahv, the literary critic, wrote his negative review for the 25 March 1965 issue of the New York Review of Books. after all, and Stanley Hyman,Stanley Edgar Hyman wrote a negative review of An American Dream for The New Leader, appearing on 15 March 1965. seem to give no sense at all of knowing what it is like to be on a three-day bat with something awful behind you and something fearful coming up. One thing is certain so far. This novel has not two bits worth of attraction for intellectuals, our kind of intellectuals, which leads me to suspect that it is either considerably better or considerably less good than I think it is.
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Jason Mosser

is a Professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. A native West Virginian, he received his B.A. and M.A. in English from West Virginia University and his Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia. He has taught at WVU, UGA, Georgia Tech, the Atlanta College of Art, Rockford College, and the University of North Georgia. His primary areas of interest is contemporary American literature, especially literary journalism. His most recent articles and reviews have been published in The Mailer Review and Literary Journalism Studies. His book on the New Journalism of the 1960s and 70s was published in 2012. He published a chapbook, Salvage and Other Poems, in 2018.
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Jeanne Fuchs

is Professor Emerita in the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages at Hofstra University. She published an essay “George Sand: Notorious Woman, Celebrated Writer” in The Lincoln Center Theater Review (Fall/Winter 2006) devoted to Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of Utopia. She is co-editor with Ruth Prigozy of Frank Sinatra: The Man, The Music, The Legend (URP 2007) and has a monograph on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Pursuit of Virtue: A Study of Order in La Nouvelle Héloïse (Peter Lang 1993). She has also written on Molière, Marivaux, Alfred de Musset, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and . Her memoir, The Road to Epidauros was published by Author House in 2011.
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Jeffrey Michelson

Jeffrey Michelson was influenced by two geniuses. In 1967, he was Norman ’s houseboy/sparring partner; in 1970, John Lennon appointed him Apple Records’ media designer. Michelson created the groundbreaking sex-magazine Puritan, then enjoyed careers in TV commercials, book and web-site design. Mailer bequeathed the Foreword to Michelson’s acclaimed erotic memoir, Laura Meets Jeffrey.
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Jeffrey Severs

is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University.
He received his Ph.D. in American literature from Harvard University
in 2007. His dissertation concerns prophecies of totalitarianism in the
postwar American novel, beginning with the works of Mailer. His essay on
Vineland and fascism is forthcoming in Pynchon Notes, and he has given recent
conference papers on Charles Johnson, Toni Morrison, and John Edgar Wideman.
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Jerome Loving

Jerome Loving is Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University.
A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the author of numerous
books and articles, including biographies of Walt Whitman, Theodore
Dreiser, and Mark Twain. His most recent book is Confederate Bushwhacker: Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War (2013). He is currently at work on a book about Norman Mailer, Jack Henry Abbott, and The Executioner’s Song.
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John A. Meixner, June 12, 1965

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Dear John,Meixner was a writer friend of ’s.
Thank you for your letter, I read it over several times with interest, and I’m afraid I agree with much of what you said, maybe most of it. This is a dreadful thing to say, and I know that I should never compare myself with other swords, but if I had known last year that the best thing in Bellow’s,Mailer is referring to Herzog. next novel was going to be that his professor was really and truly a professor in the details of his mind, then maybe I would have taken a little more trouble with mine, or had the sense to make him a Life photographer. The main fault with the goddamn book I think is that I was saying to the reader, “Look, you know I can create a professor and I can give him intimate insides of his mind, I just don’t want to be bothered with that. I’m too busy to go through the three or four or five months of reading, and you’re all too lazy, now admit it, to have your heads stuffed. So let’s just accept the fact that the man’s a professor, call it a convention, and let it go at that.” But of course no one did. And now I have to wonder myself. Perhaps it was a mistake to do it the way I did it. Perhaps I should have reworked the book, but then if I had, the pace would have been lost. And I am guilty of having liked the pace of the book. Maybe all of this is what happens when you write in installments.
Anyway, I’m off now for the summer to start work on a new novel. Let us see if this is the big objective one. You are, by the way, so far as I know, the first one to point out this alternation. I thought I was the only one who was on to that.
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John Buffalo Mailer

is an award-winning screenwriter, journalist, playwright, actor, and producer. He is currently Creative Director for Mailer Tuchman Media, a development and production company based out of New York. He has been published in three books of collected essays, has published two plays, has had four feature screenplays produced, and has been an editor for three national magazines—High Times, Tar, and Stop Smiling. As a journalist he has freelanced for Playboy, New York Magazine, ESPN Books, Provincetown Arts, Lid Magazine, Corriera De La Sera, The Mailer Review, The American Conservative, Vector, and Inked Magazine. He is a member of The Screen Actors Guild and a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He has lectured at the University of Notre Dame, Wesleyan, the University of Athens, Syracuse University, The New York Society for Ethical Culture, The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Long Island University, NYU, and has appeared on Fox News, Air America, Democracy Now, WNYC, TheBigThink.com, CSPAN’s Book TV, WPIX New York, and HuffPost Live among others. John is currently Executive Producing a feature Showtime documentary about the life of his father, Norman Mailer, directed by Emmy Award-Winner Jeff Zimbalist (Remastered). He is also creating a dramatic scripted series of his father’s life with James Gray (Ad Astra, Lost of City of Z, Little Odessa) based on the authorized biography by J. Michael Lennon, Norman Mailer: A Double Life, as well as co-editing a new book on Mailer’s writings on democracy with Lennon titled, The Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy, coming out on January 31st of 2023. 
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John Dalziel

John Dalziel was born in 1943 into a family environment that lacked opportunity
or encouragement for education and spent much of his early years
as something of a less than Artful Dodger on the then mean streets of lower
Sydney, Australia. Constantly one step ahead of truant officers, he had gravitated
to the city libraries, art galleries, and museums as places of refuge,
but, most days, would be occupied in the city’s cinemas. Here, his tutors and
guides would be discovered to have names such as Kazan, Kramer, Lumet,
Wilder and so many others. It was most likely Kazan’s East of Eden that was
the initial influence that rescued him from a potential future of alienation
and social hostility near to that of a Jack Abbott. The film led to the discovery
of Steinbeck at the age of thirteen and consequently to a life-long obsession
with reading, particularly of American literature and film history
and criticism. For many years, when asked about his family history, he would
claim Dostoyevsky as grandfather, Steinbeck for father, and Sartre as uncle.
Norman Mailer was the unruly and inspiring older brother.
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John G. Rodwan Jr.

, a Brooklyn-based writer and editor, has had work published by Spot Literary Magazine, Slow Trains, Free Inquiry, The Brooklyn Rail and American Writer, among others. A former Fight News correspondent, he also contributed to the Ringside and Training Principles website and the International Labor Office’s Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety.
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John Hemingway

John Hemingway is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir, Strange Tribe (Lyons Press, 2007), which portrays the often turbulent relationship between his father, Dr. Gregory Hemingway, and his grandfather, Ernest Hemingway. He has also published numerous short stories and articles both in Europe and in the United States. He lives in Montreal, Quebec, with his wife and two children.
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John J. Winters

has been a reporter, editor, and freelance writer since the early 1990s, and is the author of Sam Shepard: A Life (Counterpoint Press, ). For more than a decade he has been an adjunct faculty member at Bridgewater State University in his native Massachusetts, and Roger Williams University in Providence, R.I. He also devotes his time to teaching college classes inside the Rhode Island prison system. His writing has appeared in Playboy, Men’s Health, Runner’s World, The Boston Globe (where he was a regular correspondent from -), The Providence Journal, Rhode Island Monthly magazine, Salon, and other publications and websites. For many years he was a primary commentator and book reviewer and arts writer for WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio affiliate. He is currently at work on a biography of the novelist James Salter.
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