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The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007/Remembering a Good Friend

keep me from attending this memorial service for a dear old friend. Let me add at once how fortunate I am that another friend, of many years close acquaintance to Robert Lucid and myself will be able to read these remarks. To that extent, let me feel that I am here in spirit.
Bob Lucid, as so many of you know, was not an ordinary fellow. An American literary scholar of considerable stature, and an exceptionally talented lecturer, what made him even more unique was the constant and stimulating private flavor of his views large and small. He was the rare example of an intellectual who could never allow himself to become mired in the jargon of his profession. He spoke as if each word had to be introduced into the hearing of others with its original resonance restored. Words were never to be used as lead slugs to weigh upon the argument of those opposed to you. To the contrary, words were the gates to subtle appreciation of the likely and the unlikely. It was Bob’s exceptional talent as a lecturer never to obscure the mystery of an explanation. A fine novel, as he would present it to his classes, was an opportunity to enter a little more deeply into the perplexities and complexities of existence itself. Social enigmas and psychological discoveries were not to be understood in full, completely and masterfully, rather, they were to be elucidated to a further degree, and thereby prepared for further interpretations. Listening to Lucid talk about a novel was not unequal to learning more about a good friend who is still full of surprises. Listening to Bob’s voice was analogous to coming closer to a certainty that had to remain, by its nature, not quite capturable. Therein rested its beauty. One read thebest works of literature not to form up whole barricades of fact but to recognize that there were vibrant presences in the air of the author’s style and they might even accompany you through the years to come, and so could even enrich one’s grasp on what may be the mightiest question of all — which is, why are we here and what is our purpose?
In that sense, Bob Lucid was one of the unheralded literary apostles of our time. Let me conclude that I have literally been approached in airline terminals and railroad stations by undergraduates with an unmistakable light in their eye. They had something to tell me, and it was not that they had recognized my face, no, better than that, it was all in the excitement with which they would say, “Mr. Mailer, I just want you to know — I have studied with Dr. Lucid.”
I can swear that this happened to me most definitely on several occasions and if my memory is not treacherous, even more than three or four times. What a fine presence was Robert Lucid, a gentleman with a rare quality — a silvery resonance of mood that spoke of an indefatigable love for the virtues of culture.
Category:Tributes (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 11, 2017

===/Reflections/===
==Featured==
* Norman Mailer/Dr. Bulganoff and the Solitary Teste/
==Articles and Miscellany==
* Barbara Wasserman/Norman Mailer in Long Branch/
* J. Michael LennonIntroduction to the Taschen edition of The Fight
* Gregory Bellow, Kaylie Jones, Susan Mailer/Children of Major Writers/
* Phillip Sipiora/On Film: A Conversation with Michael Mailer/
* Robert SingerDefective Detectives: Generic Tension in Beyond the Law
* Victor Peppard/Mailer and Babel on Being Jewish/
* Nicole DePolo/Mired in the Past: Mailer’s Egypt/
* Alexander HicksHeroic Narrative Resolution in The Armies of the Night
* Kevin PowerMorbid Symptoms: Barbary Shore
* Erik Nakjavani/Boxing as Nonverbal Dialogue and the Discourse and Bantu Philosophy/
* Andrew Gordon/Introduction to Norman Mailer’s Talk at the University of Florida in 1986/
* Jeanne FuchsThe Naked and the Dead (Les Nus et les Morts. Paris: Albin Michel, 1950.) 
* Jeanne Fuchs/André Maurois (1885–1967)/
* Alexander Hicks/Literary Tough Guys/
* Jason Mosser/On Compiling a Selective Bibliography on “The White Negro”//“The White Negro”: A Selective Bibliography/
* Peter Balbert/Compensatory Reversal and the Voluptuous Suffocation: Nightmare and Sexual Revenge in “The Border-Line”/
* Erik Nakjavani/Remembering Andrew Gordon/
* Robert Begiebing/A Memory of Andy Gordon/
==Book Reviews==
* Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960sNorman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960sRobert Begiebing/Where is Norman Mailer When We Need Him?/
* Understanding Norman MailerRobert Begiebing/Mailer Expunged; Mailer Restored/
* Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song Robert Begiebing/Convict Doppelgangers/
* The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film Is Like DeathGerald R. Lucas/Lost Islands of the Mind/
* South and West: From a NotebookJason Mosser/Notes from the Flyover/	 	
* Somebody with a Little Hammer: EssaysRaymond M. Vince/Unfolding Primal Emotions with Patience/
==Creative Works==
* Rita Ciresi/Goodbye to the Island/
* Gary D. Rhodes/Riveted/
* Carol Dine/Interview with the Kommandant/
* Robert Guffey/The Faggot Police/
==Bibliography==
* Shannon L. Zinck/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2016/
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The Mailer Review/Volume 11, 2017/Reflections

This year marks Volume 11 of the Review. As many of our readers know, the production
of this issue has been exceptionally challenging as we experienced
significant delays beyond our control. However, we are back on track and
Volume 12 is scheduled to be published this October.
The future continues to burn brightly in Mailer Studies and popular and
scholarly interest in the life and work of Norman Mailer continues to be vibrant.
Perhaps the strongest indication of the escalating interest in Mailer’s
literary and discursive work was the decision by The Library of America to
include Norman Mailer in their register of essential works in America. The
LoA launch, in 2018, includes a boxed set of two volumes, The 1960s Collection,
and both volumes were edited by J. Michael Lennon. The collector’s set
is densely packed: Volume One: Four Books of the 1960s includes An American Dream, Why Are We in Vietnam?, The Armies of the Night, and Miami and the Siege of Chicago. The second inclusion, Volume Two: Collected Essays of the 1960s, includes a wide swath range of Mailer’s discursive writing
in a critical decade of intellectual, social, and cultural growth for Mailer
rising.
The dissemination of Mailer resources continues apace as new research
tools, insightful analysis, and archival texts emerge from Mailer’s vast, diverse
lifetime oeuvre of creativity. In 2018, J. Michael Lennon, Donna Pedro Lennon, and Gerald Lucas (editor) published a new, significantly revised,
enhanced edition of Works and Days, an exhaustive compendium of source
materials for Mailer’s vast, prodigious output, beginning in the 1940s. A published
version of Mailer’s Lipton’s Journal, a memoir of reflections written in
the 1950s, will be out soon. It is edited by Susan Mailer, J. Michael Lennon,
and Gerald Lucas. Maggie McKinley is completing a book, Mailer in Context
(Cambridge UP). Two Mailers, a play in development and directed by Ron Fried, was inspired by The Big Empty, Norman and John Buffalo Mailer’s
collection of interviews. Susan Mailer’s book, In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, will be published in November by Northampton House Press.
I would like to thank Scott Neumeister for his excellent work as Managing
Editor of the Review for three years and I welcome Chondell Villines as
our new Managing Editor. Both editors contributed their valuable skills to
Volume 11. Michael Shuman, our long time Deputy Editor, continues his invaluable
work as we persistently strive to publish salient commentary on the
life and work of Norman Mailer.
I am sad to note that Professor Andrew M. Gordon (University of Florida)
passed away in October of 2018. Andy was an energized presence at Mailer
Society conferences as well as a devoted reader of and contributor to the Review.
This issue includes an essay that Andy wrote about Mailer’s visit to
Gainesville in 1986. Andy will be sorely missed.
Phillip Sipiora
Category:Editorials
Category:Written by Phillip Sipiora
The Mailer Review/Volume 12, 2018

===/Reflections/===
==Featured==
* Norman Mailer/The Notebook/
==Articles and Miscellany==
* Susan Mailer/In Brooklyn Heights/
* Danielle Mailer/The Red Chair/
* Phillip Sipiora/On Writing and Living: A Conversation with Colum McCann/
* Robert J. BegiebingLipton’s Journal: Mailer’s Quest for Wholeness and Renewal
* J. Michael LennonNorman Mailer’s Pieces and Pontifications: A Note on its Origins
* Raymond M. VinceMailer, Moonfire, and Quantum Theory
* Victor Peppard/Mailer and Breslin: Politics, Literature, and Big Ideas/
* Jeanne Fuchs/Existential Affinities: Mailer on Monroe/
* J. Michael Lennon/The Naked and the Read/
* Scott McClintockNecropolitics in The Executioner’s Song
* Elizabeth Ricketts/The (Irish)-American Dream: Social Insecurity and Disadvantage in Irish Characters in Fitzgerald’s and Mailer/
* Ann L. von MehrenMailer’s Journey inside the CIA with Harlot’s Ghost
* Christopher Busa/Norman Mailer: Of Vitality and Morality/
* Alexander Hicks/Advertisements for Myself: Mailer’s Künstlerroman?/
* Erik Nakjavani/Theory and Practice of Fictionalized Autobiography: Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro/
* Alexandros Mantzaris/A Political Paradox: “Totalitarianism,” Myth, and Norman Mailer’s Left Conservatism/
* Matthew S. Hinton/LORD’S EYE: An Epilogue in Search of Political Tattoos/
==Classic Interpretation==
* An Interview with Diana Sheets/Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe, Two Leaders of “New Journalism” or Writers Striving to Create the Great American Novel?/
==Book Reviews==
* In Another Place With and Without my Father, Norman MailerBonnie Culver/Patrolling No-Man’s Land, Living on the Border/
* Norman Mailer: Works and DaysRobert J. Begiebing/Our Wounded Giant: Works and Days/
* Bootlegger of the Soul: The Literary Legacy of William KennedyRobert J. Begiebing/Soul Bootlegger/
* MoonfireMichael L. Shuman/Going to the Moon/
* RossetJustin Bozung/Mailer De Facto: How Norman Mailer Saved Barney Rosset/
* Seeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature through FilmMichael L. Shuman/Beat Films and the Persistence of Vision/
* Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview and Other ConversationsJason Mosser/All Gonzo All the Time/
* Left Bank Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–1950Jeanne Fuchs/We’ll Always Have Paris!/
==Creative Works==
* Philip Brady/Nothing Attested, Everything Sung/
* Robert Guffey/Fleshy Mounds/
* Gary D. Rhodes/“Prisoner’s Cinema”/
* Raymond M. Vince/You Shall Not Pass/
* Jason Mosser/Pill/
* Stephen Eric Berry/Aphrodite in Transition/
* Sal Cetrano/To Linda, at Creedmore//Naming//Sleeping Weather//Visit to Berkeley, 1978//For Plato//Mission Statement/
==Bibliography==
* Shannon L. Zinck/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2017/
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The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019

===/Reflections/===
==Featured==
* Norman Mailer/The Last Night: A Story/With a note by J. Michael Lennon
* Michael L. Shuman/When Genres Collide/
* Barry N. Malzberg/Sixty-Seven Words A Minute/
==Articles and Miscellany==
* Phillip Sipiora/On the State of Mailer Studies: A Conversation with J. Michael Lennon/
* Maggie Mailer/Prism Break/
* Robert J. Begiebing/Norman Mailer and Joseph Ellis: Unsettling Dialogues on Democracy/
* Bonnie CulverNORRIS
* J. Michael LennonInterview with Susan Mailer, author of In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer
* Raymond M. VinceAngst, Authorship, Critics: “The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” “The Crack-Up,” Advertisements for Myself
* Jeanne FuchsMailer in Translation: The Naked and the Dead
* Jason Mosser/Mailer and Thompson on the Campaign Trail, 1972/
* Robert J. BegiebingAddendum to Lipton’s Journal
* Mark Stewart/The Savage Poet—Unlocking the Universe with Metaphor/
* Victor Peppard/Jimmy Breslin’s Run to Win/
* Hujun Ren“Her Problems Were Everyone’s Problems”: Self and Gender in The Deer Park
==Book Reviews==
* In Another Place With and Without My Father, Norman MailerErik NakjavaniAttachment, Abandonment, and Reconciliation: A Psychoanalytic Review of Susan Mailer’s Memoir as Bildungsroman
* Four Men ShakingGerald R. Lucas/Searching for Home/
* When We Were Kings (Blu-Ray Special Edition)Bill LowenburgWhen We Were Kings: Review and Commentary
* Brooklyn: The Once and Future CityJohn Dalziel/More Than The Dead Know/
* The Bad Side of Books: Selected Essays by D.H. LawrencePeter Balbert/Tremulation on the Ether: Versions of Instinctual Primacy in the Essays of D.H. Lawrence/
==Creative Works==
* Karen Brown/Silent Night/
* Robert Guffey/Cents/
* Richard Schreck/Request/
* Gary D. Rhodes/In Perpetuity//Under Hell//Conversion//Putrescent/
* Sal Cetrano/Remember the Alamo//The Child//All the Same//Bedroom Light//Always//Here, Now/
* Alexander Hicks/Two Roads Wonder in a Wood/
==Bibliography==
* Shannon L. Zinck/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2018/
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Category:2019 Vol. 13 (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Addendum to Lipton’s Journal

, I published an essay entitled “Lipton’s Journal: Mailer’s Quest for Wholeness and Renewal.” At the time of publication, the volumes by and about Carl Jung in Mailer’s personal library archives were not yet indexed or available to researchers generally. However, at the Norman Mailer Society Conference at Wilkes University in 2019, the newly created Mailer Reading Room and Collection (on the second floor of the Farley Library) was available for viewing and future research. Conference attendees could tour the replication of Mailer’s study and library from his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. While there, I spotted the shelves on which Mailer stored much of his collection on psychology and anthropology. I would like to add what I found in Mailer’s “Wilkes library” to the footnote that I appended to my 2018 article on Mailer’s Jungian project of personal transformation through the self-exploratory processes of his private journal, a footnote which reads as follows:
It turns out Mailer did in fact have a significant collection of Jung’s collected works, published in 20 volumes in its Bollingen Series by Princeton University Press. He also had other works about Jung, Aryan Christ’s and Frank McLyan’s biographies, as well as Jung’s own autobiography, mentioned above. From the Princeton series he had the handsome, durable paperback editions of Freud and Psychoanalysis, Symbols of Transformation, Alchemical Studies, Mysterium Coniunctionis, The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, The Development of Personality, Aion, and The Practice of Psychotherapy. Most of these works were referenced in my study of the archetypal dimensions of Mailer’s fiction and nonfiction (Acts of Regeneration, 1981). Other related works, such as Claude Levi-Strauss’s From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology, sat cheek by jowl with Mailer’s Jungian materials. Mailer certainly had a profound interest in the mythological and archetypal levels of his own work and Jung certainly helped Mailer form his own evolving theories of the psyche. 
These books in the Wilkes University archive appeared to have been read or at least well consulted, although they lacked the heavy marginalia, dog-ears, tears and creases, or other indications of having been deeply mined during many a lucubration. There is no way of telling when Mailer might have consulted any of them, although they started becoming available in the late 1950s. But there now can be no doubt about Mailer’s substantial interest in Jung’s studies and theories in what came to be known as “depth psychology.”
===Note===
Category:Articles (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/All the Same

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Old Berkowitz, distracted,
fights to recollect the names
for things, the windblown kind:
philosophies, programs,
the inveterate skirmishes
that script and score an era,
pack its duffel tight
with forbidden freight.
Would the lady, he extends,
care to be more specific?
Who was it, exactly, who’d held
you down—or was that back?
The wash of her alarums
makes waves in his whiskey,
disturbs icy faces, the cozy
leaden feel of the tumbler,
snug as a hand grenade.
What a gift, to recognize
the enemy in any landscape!
Parties, he aches wistfully,
once offered shelter.
The Lady, for all her rocks 
and ten-buck words
just a dyke in taffeta to Berkowitz,
chafes on: equal something 
for somebody, level tracks, 
affirmative assholes . . .
He is dim on the details.
Life is complicated enough,
he is thinking. Can he even 
find his way to the john? 
Men now used ju-jitsu—
kiss her ass just right, and 
she’ll swear she’s kicking yours. 
Refocusing the mute blonde 
over by the dip, it is all
the same to him—the hollow 
that he may have had her before, 
or the notion that she’s had him.
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Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Always

A fallen priest on a shuttle flight
padding the holes in his resume
looks down and sees Manhattan as Babel
built on bedrock and whistling in the wind.
He’d ingested descriptions of Gomorrah
and vowed not to lie with the swine,
an earnest but dubious intention, like a boy
with webbed hands forswearing masturbation.
Propped in confessional, coin-slot gypsy
working Wakefield’s flock without effect,
his mechanical arm allotted dispensation
for sins that made his vitals ache,
his collared understanding crave the light.
How to counsel salesmen on fidelity, virgins
on the roots of desire? Other voices
had announced his calling, but the scream
that tore the darkness was his own.
So, in the Oak Room of the Plaza, surrounded
by dowagers waiting opulently on death,
his mind turns elegant perversities:
he is naked, bearer of bread and fishes,
plying a gospel of swift return. Offered
a sanctum with mirrors, he will say,
it is always the living who are saved.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Bedroom Light

The light in her bedroom
has been out for hours.
She reaches for him,
swayed by the wash of the moon
and its exile waters and ripples
of fallen stars, throaty rasp
of tiger cub and fleshy plump
of huntress back to den.
She is old enough.
Blossom of blue smoke,
her lips fret the edge
of salty questions, quiver and relax.
A single candle is lit.
It dances attention on stuffed dogs,
training bra, milky plastic crucifix,
jar of petroleum jelly. Dog-eared
Polaroids glint like oyster shells
on a flat cotton beach. A reef
of crumpled tissues rings the bed.
In the body she longs for,
priests of Isis tremble at her veil,
and the bloody herald teaches
more than her mind can know.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Conversion

We harbor.
It approaches.
We cleanse.
It befalls.
We fret.
It accumulates.
Here is the death
of centuries past,
consuming
the tallest column,
the largest monument,
the greatest monolith.
So meager, so minute,
so imperious, so absolute.
Dust entombs
What Is into What Was.
It buries us all.
Then we become it.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Here, Now

For our own grave and shallow reasons,
we occupy each other for a night. Bathed,
your milky body is in season, this house
you carry, to dance the dance and sleep.
I light candles, play an oldies station.
Odd, almost intimate, our tongues lace,
but the motions are mechanical, a muscular
offering, two snails wrestling on the moon.
Yet, you are here, you are with me, now.
For every inch you open up, I’ll drive
a chariot through, sport rose-colored eyes,
swallow whatever drivel dims your pain.
For it’s truth that’s left me like this,
swapping empathy and sweat with a breeze.
Were Death to come, halving this loneliness,
I’d suit up and leave you with the keys.
Instead, smell sickness in sweet familiars,
taste it in riot of piss and bitterroot.
Across your deepest essence, see me stretch
my muddy cloak, the ultimate pollution.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2018

==Primary==
==Secondary==
===Essays, Articles, Book Chapters, Dissertations, and Creative Works===
 Originally published in The Doubling: Those Influential Writers That Shape Our Contemporary Perceptions of Identity and Consciousness in the New Millennium, Nova Science Publishers, 2017, pp. 109–124.
===Book and Film Reviews===
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte.
 Rev. of Norman Mailer: Works and Days, by J. Michael and Donna Lennon.
 Rev. of Bootlegger of the Soul: The Literary Legacy of William Kennedy, ed. by Suzanne Lance and Paul Grondahl.
 
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte.
 Rev. of In Another Place With and Without my Father, Norman Mailer, by Susan Mailer.
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte.
 Rev. of Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940–1950, by Agnès Poirier.
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte.
 Rev. of Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview and Other Conversations, ed. by David Streitfeld, Who Killed Hunter S. Thompson: The Picaresque Story of the Birth of Gonzo, ed. by William Hinckle, Hunter S. Thompson: Fear, Loathing, and the Birth of Gonzo, by Kevin T. McEneaney, Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson’s Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism, by Timothy Denevi, Fear and Loathing Worldwide: Gonzo Journalism Beyond Hunter S. Thompson, ed. by Robert Alexander and Christine Isager.
 Rev. of The Cinema of Norman Mailer: Film is Like Death, ed. by Justin Bozung
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte.
 Rev. of Seeing the Beat Generation: Entering the Literature through Film, by Raj Chandarlapaty.
 Rev. of Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11, 50th Anniversary Edition, by Norman Mailer.
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte.
 Rev. of Norman Mailer: The Sixties by Norman Mailer and ed. by J. Michael Lennon.
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte. 
 Rev. of Understanding Norman Mailer by Maggie McKinley.
 Rev. of Norman Mailer: The Sixties, by Norman Mailer and ed. by J. Michael Lennon.
 Rev. of The Town Hall Affair, dir. by Elizabeth LeCompte.
 Rev. of Norman Mailer: The Sixties, ed. by J. Michael Lennon.
Category:Bibliographies (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Putrescent

Inside the cell.
Inside many cells.
Abdication.
Over scores of hours,
the purge expands.
Color discolors.
Swirling
into a
chemical
cocktail,
freshly fermented.
New species,
thousands.
New Life,
trillions.
They feed,
they fester.
They writhe,
they pupate.
Quantum horror
reigns.
The corpse teems with life,
cadaveric and anarchic,
henceforth.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Remember the Alamo

The man who sells the centrifugal lettuce crisper, the woman 
with combination mood ring and pregnancy test kit,
the man who seeks damages for his cataloged sufferings,
the woman who warns of morning breath,
the man whose burning compulsion is to wear a dress,
the woman who gleefully sells him her old ones,
the 90’s girl with self-help tape, who masturbates
before triptych mirrors and gives birth to the sunrise—
and scores of others—are trampling my fescue,
correct mob demanding to be let in: famished Jacquerie
antsy to hand out all my cake, but I have no cake.
I crawl naked to the doors and set the latches.
“Let us in!” they chant. “We know you’re in there!”
“Who are you people?!” I ask. “What do you want?”
“None of your business!” they yell. “Just let us in.
Sooner or later, everybody lets us in. You’ll see!”
The walls begin to sag. Screams and gunfire mingle.
The armoire buttressing the bedroom door trembles.
I prop my back against the wall. A window shatters.
I hone my Bowie on the skull of an Amway salesman.
Then comes my Mexican sweetheart, incongruously
both blond and Jewish for purpose of this reverie,
ample bosom laden with pistols. “The cities
have fallen,” she cries. “They want the mission now.”
Category:Poetry (MR)