Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Bibliography/First Editions

Most of these first editions also include bibliographies of reviews and essays. Many of the following contain a bibliography of reviews and/or critical articles. 
The reviews were chosen because of:
# representative quality;
# intrinsic interest;
# reviewer's reputation and/or relationship with Mailer; or
# subsequent comment by Mailer. 
Obviously, some reviews meet more than one criteria. The essays, which focus almost exclusively on one book and were written years or decades later, were chosen for their cogency and contextual merits. Each are divided according to work. Abbreviations that were not included in or are new to this project; these abbreviations will be used throughout. 
Title 	Abbr.	Publication Info 	Year	Type 	Entry
The Naked and the Dead * 	NAD 	New York: Rinehart 	1948	novel 	48.2 ‡
Barbary Shore * 	BS 	New York: Rinehart 	1951	novel 	51.1 ‡
The Deer Park * 	DP 	New York: Putnam 	1955	novel 	55.4 ‡
The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster 	WN 	San Francisco: City Lights Books 	1959	essay 	59.8a ‡ ∞
Advertisements for Myself 	AFM 	New York: Putnam 	1959	miscellany 	59.13 ‡
Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) 	DFL 	New York: Putnam 	1962	poetry 	62.3 ‡
The Presidential Papers 	PP 	New York: Putnam 	1963	miscellany 	63.37 ‡
An American Dream * 	AAD 	New York: Dial 	1965	novel 	65.7 ‡ ∞
Cannibals and Christians 	CAC 	New York: Dial 	1966	miscellany 	66.11 ‡
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer 	SFNM 	New York: Dell 	1967	collection 	67.11
The Deer Park: A Play 	 	New York: Dial 	1967	play 	67.13
Why Are We in Vietnam? 	WWVN 	New York: Putnam 	1967	novel 	67.15 ‡
The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer 	BF 	New York: Macmillan 	1967	essay 	67.20
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History 	AON 	New York: New American Library 	1968	nonfiction narrative	68.8 ‡
The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations 	IO 	New York: Dell 	1968	miscellany 	68.11
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 	MSC 	New York: New American Library 	1968	nonfiction narrative	68.25 ‡
Of a Fire on the Moon 	OFM 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1971	nonfiction narrative	71.1 ‡
King of the Hill: Norman Mailer on the Fight of the Century 	KH 	New York: New American Library 	1971	nonfiction narrative	71.15
The Prisoner of Sex 	POS 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1971	essay 	71.20 ‡
Maidstone: A Mystery 	MM 	New York: New American Library 	1971	screenplay 	71.28
The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer 	LP 	New York: World 	1971	collection 	71.29
Existential Errands 	EE 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1972	miscellany 	72.7 ‡
St. George and the Godfather 	SGG 	New York: New American Library 	1972	nonfiction narrative	72.17 ‡
Marilyn: A Biography; Pictures by the World's Foremost Photographers * 	MAR 	New York: Grosset & Dunlap 	1973	biography 	73.30 ‡
The Faith of Graffiti 	FOG 	New York: Praeger 	1974	essay 	74.9
The Fight 	FIG 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1975	nonfiction narrative	75.12 ‡
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 	SHM 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1976	anthology 	76.5
Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller 	GAL 	New York: Grove 	1976	essay 	76.12 ‡
A Transit to Narcissus 	TTN 	New York: Howard Fertig 	1978	novel 	78.2
The Executioner's Song * 	ES 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1979	nonfiction narrative	79.14 ‡
Of Women and Their Elegance 	OWE 	New York: Simon & Schuster 	1980	novel 	80.15
Pieces and Pontifications 	PAP 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1982	miscellany 	82.16 ‡
Ancient Evenings * 	AE 	Boston: Little, Brown 	1983	novel 	83.18
Tough Guys Don't Dance * 	TGD 	New York: Random House 	1984	novel 	84.17 ‡
Conversations with Norman Mailer 	CNM 	Jackson: University Press of Mississippi	1988	collection 	88.6
Harlot's Ghost * 	HG 	New York: Random House 	1991	novel 	91.26 ‡
Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery 	OT 	New York: Random House 	1995	nonfiction narrative	95.16 ‡
Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography 	POP 	New York: Atlantic Monthly Press 	1995	biography 	95.38 ‡
The Gospel According to the Son * 	GAS 	New York: Random House 	1997	novel 	97.13 ‡
The Time of Our Time 	TOOT 	New York: Random House 	1998	anthology 	98.7 ‡
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing 	SA 	New York: Random House 	2003	miscellany 	03.7 ‡
Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings 	MG 	New York: Random House 	2003	poetry 	03.17
Why Are We at War? 	WWW 	New York: Random House 	2003	essay 	03.18
Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963-1969 	LAD 	Shavertown, PA: Sligo Press 	2004	letters 	04.7
The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America	BE 	New York: Nation Books 	2006	conversations 	06.2
The Castle in the Forest * 	CIF 	New York: Random House 	2007	novel 	07.10 ‡
On God: An Uncommon Conversation 	OG 	New York: Random House 	2007	conversations 	07.39 ‡
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer 	MO 	New York: Random House 	2013	collection 	13.1
The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer 	SLNM 	New York: Random House 	2014	letters 	14.3
Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s 	 	New York: Library of America 	2018	collection 	
Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s 	 	New York: Library of America 	2018	collection 	
Lipton's, A Marijuana Journal: 1954-1955 	 	New York: Arcade 	2024	journal 	
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