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John W. Aldridge, August 17, 1965

::::::::::::::::::::607 Commercial Street
::::::::::::::::::::Provincetown, Massachusetts
::::::::::::::::::::August 17, 1965
Dear Jack,
It’s too bad we missed each other this summer, it really is. I was looking forward to it. I’ve been working hard too, and kept putting off a letter until a weekend would show on the horizon that looked to be good. So it went by. We were thinking last spring of going to Nantucket in a boat that a friend of ours had in Harwichport, but he chose to go to Hawaii, so that took care of that.
The re-reprinting of your review in Partisan also did not take place. Phillips said that he would do it, but also asked me if I really thought it would be effective after all this time, and all the extra emphasis that it demanded, and I had to agree with him. It would have made me look silly, and worse, in this sort of small matter, might have made you look bad. Which after all was not my purpose. As you may remember, my agent approached Warner’s. As I feared, they have not answered yes or no, which in Hollywood always means no. The difficulty from the beginning is that movie companies do not get technical advisors in order to make the author’s meaning clear to them. They look for technical advisors who keep them running well in the middle of the prejudices of the particular consensus against which the work was aimed. Thus if they were to make a movie today of The Naked and the Dead, the technical advisor would be a man from the Pentagon; so the technical advisor of An American Dream, if there will be one, is bound to prove out a retired commissioner of police from the City of New York.
Well, now we must look forward to seeing each other in the fall.
::::::::::::::::::::Best and all,
::::::::::::::::::::Norman
John W. Aldridge, June 8, 1965

::::::::::::::::::::142 Columbia Heights
::::::::::::::::::::Brooklyn 1, New York
::::::::::::::::::::June 8, 1965
Dear Jack,
This is just a line, not a proper letter, to tell you that we’ll be up in Provincetown by the time you get this letter. The phone number will be 1424, and our address is 607 Commercial Street. My plans are simple. I’m going to work Monday to Friday and have fun on weekends. So feel ready to come any weekend at all. With a little warning we’re bound to have an extra room.
		
:::::::::::::::::::: Best and best,
::::::::::::::::::::Norman 
P.S. I was not happy with the cuts William Phillips made, they broke the cadence of your style. So I called him up in a huff and he’s going to reprint your piece in toto in the next issue.
John William Corrington, June 8, 1965

::::::::::::::::::::142 Columbia Heights
::::::::::::::::::::Brooklyn 1, New York
::::::::::::::::::::June 8, 1965
Dear Mr. Corrington,
I mislaid your letter and didn’t come across it again until today, and that was annoying. I didn’t want you to think you’d get no answer from me. Now the best time for answering is gone. I’m starting work on a novel soonIt is unclear what novel is referring to. so starting this week I’m going to be acknowledging mail rather than replying. But look, in any case I can hardly tell you that I thought you were or were not on the right track. That would break the game of criticism, for criticism consists of the critic assuming an authority which he knows in his own heart cannot be authoritative, and that’s the fun of it. So I try never to go over a piece of criticism with the critic. I limit myself to saying I enjoyed reading it or didn’t enjoy reading it, and obviously I enjoyed reading your piece or I would not have been annoyed at mislaying it.
At any rate, I don’t know whether I can keep it or not, so I’m returning the manuscript to you. When it is printed in Chicago Review, would you ask them to send me a copy?Corrington wrote a favorable review of AAD in the Chicago Review (No. 18) 1965.
		
::::::::::::::::::::And for now, my best to you,
::::::::::::::::::::Norman Mailer
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Jonathan Middlebrook

is Emeritus Professor of English at San Francisco
State University, author of Mailer and the Times of His Time (San Francisco,
1976), some journalism, and several staid critical essays. He hopes his five
notes will invite younger readers (especially) into vigorous wrestling with
Mailer’s voluminous work, reading it into the twenty-first-century canon.
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K. D. Norris

lives in Pownal, Vermont with TJ, his wife, and Rastus the Wonderdog. His most recent published work was a short fiction ghost story “Dancing with Crawlin’ Billy,” part of an anthology by Southern Vermont writers called Southshire PepperPot published by Lions Mark Press. He has a journalism degree from Humboldt State University and has worked in journalism and other communications-related jobs for 20 years. Currently he is writing a short fiction/essay piece on the jazz guitarist Charlie Christian and is finishing his epic crime fiction novel.
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Karen Brown

Karen Brown is the author of the novel, The Longings of Wayward Girls, and two short story collections—Little Sinners and Other Stories, winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and the John Gardner Book Award, and Pins and Needles: Stories, recipient of the Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. Her second novel, The Clairvoyants, is forthcoming from Henry Holt in 2017.
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Kaylie Jones

is a novelist, creative nonfiction writer, writing professor, and
editor and publisher. Her books include Lies My Mother Never Told Me, 
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, and The Anger Meridian. Kaylie teaches
writing at the SUNY Stony Brook/Southampton College M.FA. Program in
Writing, and at the Wilkes University Low Residency Program in Professional
Writing. She chairs the annual $10,000 James Jones First Novel Fellowship.
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Kermit Moyer

Kermit Moyer is Emeritus Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of articles on F. Scott Fitzgerald and the films of Robert Altman as well as of Tumbling (University of Illinois Press, 1988), a collection of short stories. His stories have appeared in such literary journals as The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, and The Hudson Review. The Permanent Press is scheduled to publish his collection of linked stories, The Chester Chronicles, in February 2010.
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Kevin Power

Kevin Power is the author of a novel, Bad Day in Blackrock (Simon & Schuster UK, 2010), which won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature in 2009 and was filmed as What Richard Did (Element Films, dir. Lenny Abrahamson) in 2012. His doctoral dissertation, on the politics of growth in the fiction and nonfiction of Norman , was completed at University College Dublin in 2014. He writes regularly for a range of publications, including The Sunday Business Post (Ireland), Literary Review, and Strange Horizons. He teaches in the School of English at Dublin City University. 
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Kevin Schultz

is Chair of the Department of History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he has taught since 2007. Among his books is Buckley & Mailer: The Difficult Friendship the Shaped the Sixties (W.W. Norton & Co., 2015), which won the 2015 Robert F. Lucid Award from the Norman Mailer Society.
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Lawrence Grobel

has been a freelance writer for more than thirty years. He
has written for numerous national magazines and newspapers, including the
New York Times, Newsday, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Reader’s Digest, Details, TV Guide, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Penthouse, Diversion, Writer’s Digest. He has been a contributing editor at Playboy since 1980. Playboy
called him “the interviewer’s interviewer” after his interview with Marlon
Brando for their 25th anniversary issue. His 1985 book Conversations with Capote received a PEN Special Achievement award. Grobel’s books also
include: The Hustons, Conversations with Brando, Talking with Michener,
Above the Line: Conversations about the Movies, Endangered Species, Climbing Higher with Montel Williams, Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel, and The Art of the Interview. He teaches a seminar on “The Art of the Interview” at UCLA.
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Lawrence R. Broer

, Professor Emeritus at the University of South Florida,
earned his PhD from Bowling Green State University. The author or editor
of eight books, including Hemingway’s Spanish Tragedy (U of Alabama P,
1973), Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut (U of Alabama
P, 1994), and Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice (U of Alabama P 2002). Professor Broer has contributed essays to
numerous anthologies of literary criticism and authored eighty articles and
critical papers on modern and postmodern literature.
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Lawrence Schiller

, born in Brooklyn in 1936, grew up in San Diego. After college he worked for Life magazine, Paris Match magazine, and the Saturday Evening Post as a photojournalist. He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then he has published thirteen other books, including W. Eugene Smith’s Minamata and Norman Mailer’s Marilyn. He collaborated with James Willwerth on American Tragedy, Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce!, and with Mailer on The Executioner’s Song and Oswald’s Tale. The eleven motion pictures and miniseries he has directed for television include The Executioner’s Song and Peter the Great, which together won a total of five Emmys.
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Lee Siegel

has been the book critic for The Nation, the television critic for
The New Republic, and the art critic for Slate. He is the author of three books:
Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received the National
Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism. He lives inMontclair, New Jersey
with his wife and son.
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Legs McNeil

Legs McNeil is an American music journalist and a founder of the influential, late-1970s Punk, a magazine celebrating the stripped-down, buzzsaw bands playing at CBGB, Max’s Kansas City, and Mudd Club, venues in New York City of that era. McNeil later edited the mass-circulation music magazines Spin and Nerve and is co-author, with poet Gillian McCain, of Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk (1996). McNeil’s approach toward documenting disruptive social and artistic movements through interviews continued with The Other Hollywood: The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry (2006), a collaboration with Jennifer Osborne and Peter Pavia. According to a review in Publisher’s Weekly, “This compulsively readable book perfectly captures the pop culture zeitgeist. It doesn’t hurt that the history of American pornography is inextricably intertwined with all the subjects that captivate us: sex, drugs, beauty, fame, money, the Mafia, law enforcement and violence.” McNeil has appeared on many TV documentaries, from the History Channel to VH1, and has produced and hosted a three-hour TV special on Court TV over three nights on the porn industry, the highest-rated original programming in that network’s history. McNeil currently documents “music, art, culture, fashion, poetry and movies from the 60s through today” on his website Please Kill Me.
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Linda Patterson Miller

Linda Patterson Miller is Professor of English at Penn State Abington. She publishes in all areas of American literature, but her specialty is the cultural milieu of the American expatriate artists of the 1920s. Her books in this field include Letters from the Lost Generation and Reading Hemingway’s In Our Time (forthcoming). She is completing a group biography of the Lost Generation artists on the French Riviera. Dr. Miller is Head of the Editorial Board for the Hemingway Complete Letters Project (Cambridge University Press), and she continues to serve as a scholarly consultant for public broadcasting projects and museum exhibitions that focus on twentieth-century life and art.
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Lionel Abel, February 28, 1966

::::::::::::::::::::142 Columbia Heights
::::::::::::::::::::Brooklyn 1, New York
::::::::::::::::::::February 28, 1966
Dear Lionel,Lionel Abel was a drama professor and critic who wrote for Partisan Review and moved in the same leftist intellectual circles as Mailer.
Yes, it is possible my mind has gone somewhat bad over the years. Yet, in consolation, my memory for titles remains intact. The American Dream, as you call it, seems actually to be An American Dream. (I was thinking you see of An American Tragedy.)An American Tragedy was written by Theodore Dreiser, one of Mailer’s literary heroes. He saw An American Dream as a modern extension of Dreiser’s novel and very consciously chose his title to echo it. But, if you cannot read even the first word of my book, then it occurs to me your brain if still ready, is either unwilling or unable, dear Lionel—
::::::::::::::::::::Yours,
::::::::::::::::::::MindbadAbel referred to Mailer in a Partisan Review essay as “Mindbad the Mailer.” 
cc: Irving Howe, Stanley Plastrick, Emanuel GeltmanMailer was on the Board of the leftist journal Dissent with Stanley Plastrick, Emanuel Geltman and Irving Howe, who was its editor.
===Notes===
Lipton’s Journal

two months before his 32nd birthday. His intention was to record the effects of marijuana, which he had been smoking regularly for a few years, on the other activities of his life at the time—writing and his literary ambitions, sex, jazz, and his interactions with his colleagues at Dissent magazine, the leftist journal edited by Irving Howe, and with friends and family. One of the most important figures in his life at the time was Dr. Robert M. Lindner, a well-known psychiatrist and author of popular psychology books, including Must You Conform and Rebel without a Cause. Rinehart published the work of both men, and they had corresponded since the fall of . After Mailer had completed a series of entries, perhaps ten pages worth, he would mail a carbon copy to Lindner, who then responded in letters, telephone calls and meetings in New York or Baltimore, where Lindner and his wife Johnnie lived.
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==Contents==
# /Introduction/
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# /Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/
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Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/April 22, 1955

::::::::::::::::::::To Robert Lindner
::::::::::::::::::::April 22, 1955
Dear Bob,
Just a note to tell you how good I think our evening in Philadelphia was. It was really very good for me and I want you to know what a friend I think you are. I won’t say more now because I’m going blind getting The Deer Park ready for the printer and I’m typing this out in a hurry.
Right now it looks like I’ll be in California around the 1st of June, so schedules look contradictory, eh Bobbo? Let me hear what your schedule is—as I remember it was May 9th.
::::::::::::::::::::Love for the interim,
:::::::::::::::::::::Norm
Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/December 31, 1954

::::::::::::::::::::To Robert Lindner
::::::::::::::::::::December 31, 1954
Dear Bob, in fact, Dear Dear Bob,
Happy New Year. And what a year this new one is going to be.
I’ve decided to send you one-half of the journal, my carbon. Please keep it in some safe place. And as I add to it, I’ll send you more. The part you haven’t read starts on page 19. And I think it carries along much of what I had before, and expands it.
Incidentally, try not to read it critically. That is, don’t pick out such and such items as good, others as bad, etc. I’m putting it all down because I want the record. As I read it over, there is hardly a note which could not be improved, or indeed expanded into an essay. So, the thing is very crude. But I don’t want to stop to polish now. And I want the wild with what is less wild because some of the wild ones become less wild as I expand them subsequently. Viz the saint-psychopath thing. Essentially I started it by saying, Saints and psychopaths are brothers. But, by now, I feel I’m pushing it into a new view of personality.
If you don’t have much time, and want to read the homo-erotic corollary, it is in Note 139. If you have time, I suggest coming to it naturally.
Brother, one thing. You must suspend your caution or we’ll get nowhere. So much of your thought is now in mine. Truly I’m not competing with you. Don’t look at me that way in my relations with you—it’s beneath us. I send you these notes because deep in me I feel that you’re the only person who can understand me right now intellectually, just as Adele is the only woman who can understand me intuitively. Which is why the two of you are so drawn to each other and so jealous of each other. (Don’t forget you called her the Peruvian Yenta.)
I’m mailing the blurb to Dudley Frasier. I would have made it bigger, but truly, Bob, I couldn’t. You can go so very far that some day you’ll look back on Fifty-Minute Hour as one of your last stands or retreats before the big kickoff.
I’ll try to make the flight for the 13th.
Answer this at your leisure. Unless something goes wrong, we’ll be skiing from the Second of Jan. to the Fifth or Sixth or Seventh.
::::::::::::::::::::Much love,
:::::::::::::::::::::Norm
P.S. Don’t forget your depression at reaching forty. That was you telling yourself that you haven’t gone far enough.
Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/February 3, 1955

::::::::::::::::::::To Norman Mailer
::::::::::::::::::::February 3, 1955
Dear Norman,
I have been so tremendously excited about the last two installments of the Journal that I can hardly wait to talk with you about them. I want to urge you very strongly to re-read Rebel Without A Cause—forget the expository material and read only Harold’s productions. Moreover, I think it is imperative that you follow up your insights on the sexual life of saints, by getting hold of St. Theresa’s books and whatever other writings of this kind you can find. Huxley’s Devils of Loudun will also give you some important leads.
As usual I don’t have time for a real letter, but I have to tell you that I actually anticipated your situation with Dissent—after reading the last issue I determined not to renew my subscription for the exact reasons you describe in the Journal. Which brings me to Note #344, which, I think—if developed—would say the first significant words on the whole problem.
So far no word from my brother or about a brief trip to New York next week. Will let you know as soon as I can.
::::::::::::::::::::Love,
:::::::::::::::::::::B
P.S.	Just received a wire stating that Mannie, my brother, will be here for the weekend. Will call you early next week to arrange for your coming down next weekend—Great!
Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/January 13, 1956

::::::::::::::::::::To Norman Mailer
::::::::::::::::::::January 13, 1956
Dear Norman,
Perhaps you will forgive my silence when you learn that all the nightmares have finally had triplets and have caught up with me. As of this writing, I am a patient at John Hopkins Hospital, where they are going to try to give me back my tight ass hole. There is nothing more to say, except love.
::::::::::::::::::::Bob
P.S. Last week I was a patient at the Doctor’s Hospital in New York and Billie and Cy came to see me at Johnnie’s urgent request, since she needed Billie. I asked them not to disturb you with all this worry, and that’s why you weren’t told. I would be very grateful to you if you would call them and tell them what’s happened.
Dictated but not read or signed.
Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/January 20, 1955

::::::::::::::::::::To Robert Lindner
::::::::::::::::::::January 20, 1955
Dear Bob,
Some more of the journal. I think a few of the items you’ll find attractive.
Your reviews were excellent I heard, and I congratulate you warmly, old friend. Naturally, I’ve seen none of them, everybody somehow taking it for granted that I would see them in some mysterious fashion in Mexico, but when I see you in Baltimore, we’ll be able to go over more of them. I hope the book does well. Bob-bo.
I’ve had a turn of luck with The Deer Park. G. P. Putnam’s is taking it, asking for no changes I do not consent to make, paying the full royalty (confidential) and have agreed to a first printing of 25,000 copies. But I’m such a pig and unregenerate egotist that the news which greeted me upon return from Mexico left me flat. I was so geared for a fight that I really felt a little disappointed. Which I guess proves what a saint-psychopath I am at bottom. Interestingly, Cy was somehow left a little flat too. Anyway, the contract is to be signed in a few days, and the book is tentatively set for August publication. What excited me much more was your message about Ivan [Von Auw]. Does he really think it’s my best book? (I do.) Somehow, what with Ivan being so right and so quietly helpful in the shadows, I came to wait more and more anxiously for what he would finally feel when he read it. I think nothing would have upset me more than Ivan not liking it, and so I felt a real burst of joy when Adele gave me your message. What a good bastard you are to know the pleasure such news would give me.
Mexico was rough on me, but I’ll tell you about that when I see you. One day I literally had to fight off weeping twice while I was with Susy because of the pain of leaving her. And the weight she carried in her heart and the wisdom. She fell asleep the night before I left, the last time I would see her, and I think she knew that it was far better to be unconscious when I left than to go through the pain of the scene. I really think she loves me, and I want no one to love me more than I want Susy to. Unrequited love thing maybe.
Anyway, write soon, amigo, and I hope we get together soon. I am indeed looking forward to it very much.
::::::::::::::::::::Love,
:::::::::::::::::::::Norm