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The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/The Child

For years I’ve tried to bury
the child in me: that last proud
barber pole I stood in front of
as a boy, the new housing project,
chain-lined walks, blacktop sweat,
poverty just a spelling word.
To rate responsibility, I’ve tried 
to rid myself of selfish 
evasion. It’s just as well
that I move to Nepal! 
Someone believes, someone bleeds. 
A girl bolts screaming from bed,
her hands pathetic wild birds,
a wooden man plods from
the house of his single mind.
At such times, when the cover
is torn off catalog comforts
and nothing grown seems full,
the child sliding head-first
into home, center of a good idea,
dustily rises, clear on the score,
and the words that passed for life
go in one ear and out the other,
a naughty habit never broken.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Two Roads Wonder in a Wood

When Mailer first read Flaubert’s
“Be regular and orderly in your life,
so that you can be violent and
original in your work,”
he thought
“Shouldn’t Gustave have said
‘Be violent and
original in your life,
so that you can capture real life in your work’?”
Later in his 70s he thought,
“Jesus, maybe Gustave was right.”
Later still,
”What about Hitler?”
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 14, 2020

===/Reflections/===
==Articles and Miscellany==
* Lawrence Schiller/The Executioner’s Song/
* J. Michael Lennon/The Touchdown Twins: James Jones and Norman Mailer/
* Legs McNeil/Interview: Norman Mailer/
* Phillip Sipiora/On A Scholarly Life: A Conversation with Maggie McKinley/
* Norman Mailer/Wilkes Commencement Address/
* Robert J. BegiebingMailer and Emerson: Lipton’s Journal and the Dissident Soul
* Raymond M. Vince/Mailer and Conrad: Part One—Tradition and Narrative/
* Justin David Mitchell/The Mary McCarthy Case/
* Peter BalbertSolar Copulation and Spiral Rhythm: Norman Mailer, Giovanni Verga, Trigant Burrow, and the Courage of Desire in D.H. Lawrence’s Sun
* Marlissa Santos“In the Pull of Memory”: Noir’s Legacy of Amnesia in Tough Guys Don’t Dance
* Michael Fournier/Hip Chaplin: Superficial Notes on Charlie/
* Kevin Power“Audiences are composed of sentimental necrophiles”: Notes on Norman Mailer’s The Deer Park: A Play
* J. Michael Lennon, Donna Pedro Lennon, Gerald R. LucasNorman Mailer: Works and Days: June 2020 Update
* Jasna Potočnik Topler/Norman Mailer: Reporter, Travel Writer, Critic, “Provocateur-in-Chief”/
==Memorial Tributes==
===In Memory of Beverly Bentley===
* Michael Mailer/A Remembrance/
* Stephen Mailer/Beverly’s Love/
* Stephen Mailer/Slow Down/
* Phillip Sipiora/A Star Across the Spectrum/
===In Memory of Chris Busa===
* Peter Alson/What I Miss Most/
* Robert J. Begiebing/Chris Busa: A Welcoming Friend/
* Mary Dearborn/Thoughts on Chris/
* Matthew Hinton/Beachcomber Blues/
* J. Michael Lennon/Provincetown’s Boswell/
* Maggie McKinley/In Memory of Chris Busa/
* Denise Doherty Pappas/Chris Busa: A Man With A Mission/
* Phillip Sipiora/One Editor to Another/
* Raymond M. VinceChris Busa and The Mailer Review
==Classic Interpretation==
* Robert MerrillThe Naked and the Dead: The Beast and the Seer in Man
* Robert Stone/“The Loser’s Loser”/
==Book Reviews==
* Ernest Hemingway: A BiographyPhillip Sipiora/A Biographer’s Art/
* OffedMichael L. Shuman/Shooting for the Big Time/
* Spies and SaucersMichael L. Shuman/What Mad Universe?/
* The Only Way To Play ItRobert Singer/Dealer’s Choice/
==Creative Works==
* Barry N. Malzberg/Barbarians? Sure/
* Michael L. Shuman/Barbarians? Sure: An Appreciation/
* Robert Guffey/Old Man on a Bus/
* Peter AlsonExcerpt from The Only Way To Play It
* Michael Nixon/Parris Island 1968/
* Jay Hopler/student evaluation of instruction: obituary edition//the seawall//imaginary photograph sunset mother’s day davis island florida c. 2020/
* Gary D. Rhodes/Infinite Dirge//Jacqueline//Unsettling/
* Raymond M. Vince/Sing the Song/
* Stephen A. Rozwenc/that night//through the open temple door//ascendant beings//dawn’s orange canaries trill//since I am//“sewasdee khrab”//silent prayers/
==Bibliography==
* Shannon L. Zinck/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2019/
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The Mailer Review/Volume 14, 2020/Reflections

of the Review, although the turbulence has continued unabated, as it has been for our readers. I am very proud that our staff has worked selflessly in assembling Volume 14, especially Mike Shuman, Chondell Villines, and Shannon Zinck. They have my profuse gratitude.
This issue includes memorial tributes to two individuals important in the life of Norman Mailer: Beverly Bentley and Chris Busa. Beverly Bentley was an acclaimed theatre and film actor and was Norman Mailer’s fourth wife, mother of Michael and Stephen. Chris Busa was the heralded publisher and editor of Provincetown Press, which he launched in 1985. Beverly and Chris will remain in the hearts and memories of those fortunate to have known them.
Our series connecting Mailer with other writers continues as Robert Begiebing explores Mailer’s links with Ralph Waldo Emerson in a close reading of Lipton’s Journal, Mailer’s self-examination journal compiled in 1954–55. Raymond Vince considers Mailer’s foci—particularly tradition, narrative, myth, and skepticism—as powerful connections to Joseph Conrad’s major fiction. We are pleased to publish three interviews, which collectively offer an eclectic range of perspectives into Mailer Studies. In 1979, Legs McNeil interviewed Mailer on a range of topics, ranging from the creative spirit to literary giants. In 1983, J. Michael Lennon engaged Norman Mailer and his relationship and perspectives on the life and work of James Jones. In 2020, Maggie Mailer, President of The Norman Mailer Society, graciously participated in a discussion of her scholarly life.
I would like to thank our readers for your enthusiasm and support over fourteen volumes, which could never have been brought to life without you. It has been a remarkable journey.
Category:Editorials
Category:Written by Phillip Sipiora
The Mailer Review/Volume 15, 2021

===/Reflections/===
==Articles and Miscellany==
* J. C. Campbell/Norman Mailer on James Baldwin/
* Barbara Wasserman/Love of My Life/
* J. Michael Lennon/Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer’s Opposite/
* Peter Lennon/A Parley in Brooklyn/
* Robert J. Begiebing/Mailer and Whitman: An Interview on Democracy in America/
* Lawrence R. Broer/You Just Go: On the Literary Road with Mailer and Kerouac/
* Phillip Sipiora/Seeds of Promise: Norman Mailer’s Early Short Fiction/
* Gerald R. Lucas/“It Might Not Be Unpleasant to Live”: The Transitional Short Fiction of Norman Mailer/
* Raymond M. Vince/Mailer and Conrad: Part Two—Myth and Skepticism/
* Jason Mosser/Mailer’s Hipster Meets Thompson’s Bikers: White Negroes on Wheels/
* Erik Nakjavani/Meditations on Hemingway’s Robert Jordan: An Ontological Democratic Deontology/
==Classic Interpretation==
* Robert MerrillThe Executioner’s Song: Mailer’s Sad Comedy
==Book Reviews==
* Mailer in ContextMichael L. Shuman/Becoming Mailer: Violence, Ego, Guilt, Courage/
* Song of Ourselves: Walt Whitman and the Fight for DemocracyRobert J. Begiebing/Obey Little, Resist Much: Whitman’s Fight for Democracy/
* Love of My LifeDenise Doherty Pappas/Reflections of Barbara Mailer Wasserman/
* Talking at the Gates: A Life of James BaldwinJ. Michael Lennon/James Baldwin: Preacher vs. Writer/
* SilenceJ. Michael Lennon/Dread Persists/
* Philip Roth: The BiographyJohn J. Winters/The Many Sides of Roth/
* Ida Lupino, FilmmakerRobert Guffey</br >/Noir Trailblazer/
* Let Me Tell You What I MeanJason Mosser/Telling It as She Means It/
* The Last American AristocratStephen LennonTitle TC
* Game Ball and Other EssaysTim Nolan/Cards on the Table/
* Languages of TraumaPhillip Sipiora/Exploring Trauma/
* For Father and Many Other ThingsGabrielle Grilli/Metamorphosis/
==Creative Works==
* Emmy Li/The Mirror//Chessboard/
* Teon Blake Jr./Kelen Saved the Day!/
* Victor Peppard/Camp Windiblo/
* Robert Guffey/Shaking Down the Goon/
* Daniele Pantano /PICTURE (SHOW)//SAINT (STRAWBERRY LEMONADE)//STILL LIFE (SELF-PORTRAIT)/
* Gary D. Rhodes/The Plains//Forsaken//Solstice//Tír na nÓg/
* Sal Cetrano/The Poet Drinks//Money Back//Fired//Shattered in Laramie//Carpe Residuum//Seventh Inning Stretch//Unders//Why We Have Prayer/
* Matthew Diomede/Possessions//Morning Tree Beauty//Primary Consciousness//My Father//America and My Father//A Woven Thought//Birth Dance//Bullets//Ode to a Marine Who Died in Iraq//Cycles and Convolutions/
* Clarence Wolfshohl/Lo, the Gods//On the Tenth Day//The Church of the Holy 33/
* Jason Mosser/Five Students Writing/
* Stephen A. Rozwenc/so that//The fog’s unbelievable nightgown lifts//for you I’ll write//HAIKU MONOLOGUE/
* Gabrielle Grilli/Unattainable: A Cento//Unexpected Return: A Cento//My Blood boils//i always used to hug dad goodnight in the garage/
==Bibliography==
* Shannon L. Zinck/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2020/
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The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008

===/Reflections/===
==In Memorium==
* The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer
* /Tributes to Norman Mailer/
==Articles, Interviews, Miscellany==
* Norman Mailer/What’s Wrong with America: Five Proposals/
* Norman Mailer/Acceptance Speech for National Book Foundation Award/
* Norman Mailer/The Bodily Function Blues/
* Philip RothNorman Mailer, from Exit Ghost
* Robert J. Begiebing and Philip Bufithis/A Dialogue on Mailer’s Novels/
* Christopher HitchensNorman Mailer: Miami and the Siege of Chicago
* J. Michael Lennon/Norman Mailer’s Best Sellers/
* Stephan Morrow/The Unknown and the General/
* Donald L. Kaufmann/Norman Mailer in “God’s Attic”/
* Richard Stratton/Meeting Mailer/
* John Whalen-Bridge“Their Humor Annoyed Him”: Cavalier Wit and Sympathy for the Devil in The Castle in the Forest
* Walter Grünzweig/The Hitler Family: A Relational Approach to Norman Mailer/
* Richard Lee FulghamThe Wise Blood of Norman Mailer: An Interpretation and Defense of Why Are We in Vietnam?
* Michael K. Glenday/From Monroe to Picasso: Norman Mailer and the Life-Study/
* Lawrence R. Broer/Identity Crisis: A State of the Union Address/
* Mashey Bernstein/The Heart of the Nation: Jewish Values in the Fiction of Norman Mailer/
* Barry H. Leeds/He Was a Fighter: Boxing in Norman Mailer’s Life and Work/
* John G. Rodwan Jr./Fighters and Writers/
* Michael ChaikenAuthor, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer
* J. Michael LennonThe Castle in the Forest: A Conversation with Norman Mailer
* Lawrence Grobel/Norman Mailer: Stupidity Brings Out Violence in Me/
* David AnshenA New Politics of Form in Harlot’s Ghost
* Neil GordonOn The Armies of the Night
* K. D. Norris/Exhuming Mailer’s America/
==Classic Interpretation==
* Christopher RicksNorman Mailer: The Executioner’s Song
==Book Reviews==
* On God: An Uncommon ConversationJohn Bowers/Mailer’s Last Words/
* On God: An Uncommon ConversationEugene Cullen Kennedy/You Are Too Healthy for the World/
* On God: An Uncommon ConversationPhillip Sipiora/Norman Mailer, Metaphysician at Work/
==Creative Works==
* Robbin A. Martinelli/Mailer’s Song/
* Daniele Pantano/Mailer at the Théâtre Du Grand Guignol/
* Daniela Feliciani/AmDream/
==Bibliography==
* J. Michael LennonNorman Mailer, First Editions, 1948–2007Abbreviations for Works of Norman Mailer
* Constance E. Holmes and Kristine A. Wilson/Norman Mailer Bibliography: 2007/
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The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/AmDream

Why do you call it
The American Dream?
The European Dream
Would be an oxymoron
You need an Ocean
In/between
In order to be able
To acquire your
Dreaming ability
I don’t mean
Ocean as in water
You can’t;
Impossible 
Without an
Ocean in/bet/ween
Ocean in/be/tween
Ocean in/be/twixt
No water
Oceani d’aria, d’ombra, di luci, di parole che uniscono, che dividono. Oceani di culture e di storia: 1943, dopo lo sbarco in Sicilia il comando Americano mette in circolazione l’ Allied Military Currency che diviene Famosa come Am-lira. I biglietti portano l’indicazione del loro valore in Lettere sia in italiano che in inglese. Le banconote riportano sul retro, in inglese, le quattro libertà sancite dalla Costituzione americana. L’Am-lira è anche definita “moneta d’occupazione” e in questa dicitura Si sintetizza, con valenza sia positiva che negativa, il rapporto che si è Andato costruendo negli anni del dopo guerra tra l’Italia ed il Colosso americano.
There are oceans of air, shadows, lights, and words that join and divide. There are also oceans of culture(s) and history. In 1943, after American forces landed in Sicily, command headquarters ordered the issue of what was called “Allied Military Currency,” which quickly became known as Am-Lira. This currency denoted its value in both Italian and English. The reverse side of the bills displayed the four essential freedoms of the American Constitution. The Am-Lira was also defined as the “currency of occupation,” a phrase that carries both positive and pejorative connotations and serves as a metaphor for the evolving post-war relationship between Italy and giant America.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Mailer at the Théâtre Du Grand Guignol

Fifty lifeless characters animated.
The audience, astonished, reflects upon the preeminent importance:
A curtain that never falls.
Performance and terror often contain an unconscious existence.
Vacuous eyes
Nonchalantly rising above any great and definite achievement,
While the Playbill attends a memorable ceremony:
A writer’s death flanked by language.
The stage conceives a stranger, a sage, matters of occultism, 
In an attempt to stimulate man’s inner need
To move toward an addressable reality.
But the audience still believes in imitation, nothing more . . .
The applause raucous.
Category:Poetry (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Norman Mailer, from Exit Ghost

Overwhelming. I’d never seen Norman Mailer off the screen before. Guy’s eighty now, both knees shot, walks with two canes, can’t take a stride of more than six inches alone, but he refuses help going up to the pulpit, won’t even use one of the canes. Climbs this tall pulpit all by himself. Everybody pulling for him step by step. The conquistador is here and the high drama begins. The Twilight of the Gods. He surveys the assemblage. Looks down the length of the nave and out to Amsterdam Avenue and across the U.S. to the Pacific. Reminds me of Father Mapple in Moby-Dick. I expected him to begin “Shipmates!” and preach upon the lesson Jonah teaches. But no, he too speaks very simply about George. This is no longer the Mailer in quest of a quarrel, yet his thumbprint is on every word. He speaks about a friendship with George that flourished only in recent years — tells us how the two of them and their wives had traveled together to wherever they were performing in a play they’d written together, and of how close the two couples had become, and I’m thinking, Well it’s been a long time coming, America, but there on the pulpit is Norman Mailer speaking as a husband in praise of coupledom. Fundamentalist creeps, you have met your match.
Category:Excerpts (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/The Bodily Function Blues

Oh — h — h — h — h — h — h — Ah can’t piss
Ah can’t urinate
Ah can’t bleed
Ah can’t even menstruate
Exit Blues
Oh, Ah can’t puke Ah can’t regurgitate Ah can’t gargle
Ah can’t salivate Ah can’t talk.
Ah can’t elucidate Ah can’t eat.
Ah can’t alimentate Ah can’t sleep
Ah can’t somnambulate Ah can’t breathe
Ah can’t respirate
Ah can’t shit
Ah can’t even defecate But worst of all
The worst of all
Ah can’t fuck,
Can’t fuck worth a damn, Oh, Ah can’t fuck,
Just can’t fuck
Ah can’t fuck,
Ah just can’t copulate Too late, too late,
Oh — h — h — h — h — h — What am I gonna do Ah got those blues,
Ah got those blues,
Ah got those bodily function blues
So what am I gonna do Why do yer know?
Ah can’t eat, & Ah
can’t sleep,
Ah can’t piss, & Ah can’t puke,
Ah can’t shit, Ah can’t breathe, Ah can’t fuck,
So what am Ah gonna do.
Ah got those bodily function blues.
Blue — e — e — e — s
Ah got those bodily function Blue — e — e — e — e s.
Category:Creative Works (MR)
The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Night at Elaine’s

I was thinking that I made a terrible mistake in the twenty-five years I’ve known Norman, probably one of many, but the one I’m thinking of now is that I should have recorded everything he ever said to me. I want to share with you a night, I recall, from the early mid-eighties, a night we spent at Elaine’s [restaurant] — one of many nights we spent at Elaine’s, and this was a night not unlike the others. Norris and Norman arrived and Diane and I arrived together. Norman entered first. Norris and Diane, both unbelievably tall, beautiful women, flanked him, and here he is walking into Elaine’s.
Now I’m in the back, so I can actually watch everybody watch. And Norman subtly, not too obviously, is taking it all in. And loving it. We would sit down. Diane and Norris being thin, could huddle at the table and put their chairs close together. Norman and I, not having that physique, couldn’t get too close. So our conversation was, of course, louder than theirs. Norman and I would talk; that is to say — Norman would talk and I would listen.
And so I heard how plastic is ruining the world: “If we could just somehow extract all of it, get that plastic out of our lives, it would be a clear, clean, vivid universe. Another thing, those damned commercials. No more commercials. There shouldn’t be any more commercials.” If you’ve ever watched television with Norman, as soon as the commercial comes on, he goes nuts about the commercial, making the commercial triply unpleasant. And then, of course, “those atavistic, soulless, grasping, greedy entities, corporations.” Now there he may have actually hit a bull’s-eye.
These were the conversations we had had, and we were having one of those that night. I don’t know if it was at Plastic Time, or Intermission Time, or Corporation Time, but at some point Norman becomes distracted. He looks away and then looks at Norris and Diane. He smiles and he says, “My God, you’re so beautiful!” No segue at all. Then, his blue eyes gleamed, he looked at Norris, and said, “Baby, I love you.”
Category:Carnegie Hall Memorial
The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/Blessings

As a kid I was often asked, when someone recognized the last name, “Any relation to Norman?” “Yeah,” I would reply. “Your Grandfather?” they would likely ask. “My father,” I’d say. Then the real question would come; “What’s that like? Having Norman Mailer for a father?” They might have said, “You were raised by wolves? What’s that like”? I never trusted the question so I never truly answered it.
My relationship with Dad was a little different. I’m the only stepchild. When I came into this family at the age of five, I had two brothers and five sisters to contend with and it was pretty damn intimidating, and then there was Dad, who I tiptoed around with a mixture of fear and respect. He spoke about our getting to know each other in a toast he made at my wedding three years ago:
The last dinner I had with Dad, one on one, I expressed my concern about him being alone for a stretch of time in Provincetown. He shrugged it off: “What’s everyone so worried about? If I fall down the stairs and die, then it’s my time to go. It’s okay.” I answered; “Well Dad, I love you and you have a lot of people who care about you.” To which he said; “Hey, we have love for each other. Come on, we don’t have to say it, we know it.” That was typical of our relationship; a mutual love and respect quietly acknowledged.
I took my wife and one-year-old daughter to Provincetown last July. While there, I could feel Dad watching me, studying my daughter Mattie as I changed her diaper or whatever I happened to be doing to keep her entertained. One night I went up to Dad’s studio, where he was working, to tell him that dinner was ready. He beckoned me over to his desk and told me how impressed he was, what a great father I had become. That praise meant so much to me, more than anything, because for the first time, from one father to another, I felt on equal ground with him.
No one I know knew more about the pitfalls of marriage or the rewards a large family can bestow. He called mine “A marriage to watch” and I know he was and perhaps still is pulling for my wife and me to make a go of it. As he put it in his blessing at our wedding: “If this marriage works out, I’ll be blessing you from up there, or down there, I don’t know where I’ll be, but if they allow you to bless people in Hell, watch out.”
Category:Carnegie Hall Memorial
The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/Channeling Norman Mailer

In honor of my father I’m first going to clear my throat. (He clears his throat) … I forgot what I was going to say…. Good afternoon, thank you all for coming. My name is Stephen Mailer, I am the sixth child of my father, his second son. And I’m known as the “wild card” in my family — because nobody ever knows what I’m going to say or what I’m going to do. There are a lot of family members right now who are sweating bullets. And there are other members of my family who are chomping at the bit that I may do something off-the-wall. But I’m going to turn this time over to the real wild card in my family, my father Norman Mailer.
I’m going to channel him for your viewing pleasure. I’ve never done this before. I don’t know what to expect, so please bear with me. Okay Dad, here you go, man, Carnegie Hall baby, I’m all yours! (Stephen falls to the floor as if struck by lightning. He slowly gets up and walks back to the podium as his father).
Hmm, [as Norman Mailer] Can you hear me in the back? How do? (He clears his throat) Carnegie Hall. Carnegie Hall. Well why the fuck not? I think it’s the perfect place for my memorial. In deference to the joke my sister Barbara told, I practiced my ass off, dammit! So I’ll take it. Thank you.
Now, it was reported in the New York Post that my son Stephen sang a sappy version of Elton John’s “A Candle in the Wind,” at my funeral. When, in fact, he sang a sappy version of Elton John’s “Your Song.” And on completing this number, he gave the stage to his older brother Michael, who turned to Stephen and said, “Stephen, Dad would’ve been appalled by that song! But you sang it, well.” And while I was appalled at that song, I was touched. Because, you see, the song is about writing. It’s about writing a love song. And writing is a gift that I hope to have left to all of my children, and my nephew, and their children, and so on and so on. (He turns to the other Mailers on stage). So keep on writing, you rat fucks!
Now, in terms of my being a candle in the wind, that is the worst fucking metaphor for myself and my life I have ever heard. If anything, I was a forest fire in a hurricane!
And Stephen, I’ve got one more thing to say to you. (He places his fist against the side of his chin). I love you, buddy. (He gently punches himself, spins once, and collapses onto the floor. Stephen gets up, dusts off his suit, and heads back to the podium).
Wow! [As Stephen Mailer] Well, I think that gives a whole new meaning to “the father’s shadow.” I recommend it to everyone. Thank you very much.
Category:Carnegie Hall Memorial