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Patricia Ahearn

I’m very sorry to say that Pat, my wife of 55 years, died yesterday of complications from cancer and Alzheimer’s. As many of you know, her breast cancer from 2009 came back in her head between the brain and the skull in 2011, and she was also diagnosed with Alzheimer’s that year. 
Pat was born in Virginia Beach June 26, 1937. Attended Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, MD, where she shared the editing of the school newspaper, yearbooks and was a class officer and member of the Quill and Scroll Honor Society. She attended Maryland University but left after a year to work for the President of a major insurance company in DC. 
We were married in 1959 and had Beth, Sue and Allen, Jr.in four years, as good Catholics did then. Dyanne was born in 1968. She raised the children during the 60’s and 70’s, but also was active in our church and the League of Women Voters. Coached girls CYO basketball (finals one year) and also coached for Olney Boys and Girls Club for many years. In 1976, we co-founded the Quill & Brush, a book-and-art store, which she ran first in Olney and then in Bethesda until 1987, when the business moved to our home. 
A talented artist, she studied art at Maryland School of Art and the Corcoran, and illustrated the covers for many early Quill & Brush catalogs. Co-author with Allen of seven books on book collecting and rare book values; edited and published several small-press literary editions and hundreds of Quill & Brush collectible-book catalogs.
She is survived by our 4 children, 13 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Services will be at St. Mary’s Church on Barnesville Road in Barnesville, MD at 11 am Saturday May 31st. In lieu of flowers we ask that a donation be made to your local non-profit Hospice or the Alzheimer’s Association.
All my best wishes. Allen
Patrick Brennan

earned his B.F.A. in Film and TV Production from New York University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. He currently serves as a professor of English and as the coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies in the department of Media, Culture, and the Arts at Middle Georgia State University. He has published and presented original research in the fields of American Underground Cinema, World Cinema, and Classic Hollywood Cinema.
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Peter Balbert

Peter Balbert is Professor of English at Trinity University. He has published more than fifty essays on D.H. Lawrence and other modern and contemporary writers, and is the author of D.H. Lawrence and the Phallic Imagination and D.H. Lawrence and the Psychology of Rhythm, and is the co-editor of D.H. Lawrence: A Centenary Consideration. His most recent book, D.H. Lawrence and the Marriage Matrix: Intertextual Adventures in Conflict, Renewal, and Transcendence, was published by Cambridge Scholars.
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Philip Brady

Philip Brady is the author of Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City (University of Tennessee Press, 2019). His most recent book of poetry is To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet (Broadstone, 2015). He has authored three previous books of poetry, a previous collection of essays, and a memoir. He has edited a critical book on James and an anthology of contemporary poetry.
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Philip Bufithis

, author of the critical study Norman Mailer (1978, Japanese edition 1981), is former executive editor of the literary magazine Antietam Review. His articles on twentieth-century American literature and his stories have appeared in numerous publications. He is Professor of English Emeritus at Shepherd University and a member of the graduate creative writing faculty at Wilkes University.
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Phillip Sipiora

is Professor of English at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately fifty scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the founding editor of The Mailer Review.
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Preface to The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories

Reading Carl Oglesby be on the assassination of JFK offers the pleasure of following a first-rate mind through the processes of its thought. For the political writer, Oglesby’s literary instincts are exceptional. He comprehends what so few authors of that genre begin to understand — which is that style is not the servant of our desire to inform others how to think, but the precise instrument by which we attempt to locate the truth.
So, this contribution to the JFK case has been not only illuminating but crucial. If we are left in intellectual limbo and learn know more about what happened in Dallas, then the president’s death will remain obsessive in our history. We really cannot calculate the price of living with this unsolved crime, and Oglesby, in addition to his writing, has worked directly on the case. The Assassination Information Bureau, which Oglesby be helped to found, and then co-directed, did a great deal to force the assassination question back on the agenda of the Congress.
So his efforts appealed to me greatly. He is one of the few contemporaries I read for the pleasure of clarifying my own thinking.
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Raj Chandarlapaty

Raj Chandarlapaty taught writing and literature courses for seventeen years. He is the author of three books, Seeing The Beat Generation, Re-Creating Paul Bowles, the Other and the Imagination, and The Beat Generation and Counterculture. Dr. Chandarlapaty has also published ten essays on authors such as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Mohammed Mrabet, and James Baldwin. His research and teaching interests include: modernist fiction, transatlantic fiction, and modern American poetry.
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Randy Laist

Randy Laist is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Connecticut, where he is writing his dissertation on technology and subjectivity in the novels of Don DeLillo. His articles have appeared in Critique, Modern Language Studies, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Leviathan, and The Journal of the Kafka Society of America. His research interests include ecocriticism, phenomenology, and mammalogy.
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Raymond M. Vince

has taught American Literature & Writing for about thirty years—at the University of Tampa, University of South Florida, Hillsborough Community College, and other places. He has degrees in English, Theology, and Logic & Scientific Method from the University of Bristol, Kings College, London, the London School of Economics, and the University of South Florida. He has nine articles in The Fitzgerald Review and The Mailer Review and is a contributor to Norman Mailer in Context (Cambridge, 2021).
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Reed Whittemore, October 15, 1963

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Dear Reed Whittemore,The poet Reed Whittemore was editor of Carleton Miscellany.	
Ah, thank you for you invitation, but it can’t be done. I’m in trouble. I’m writing a novel for Esquire over the next eight months and since this by definition is a serial, I am suffering the perils of Pauline. Could you send me a copy of the symposium when it comes out?
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Richard Kluger, March 22, 1965

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Dear Dick,Kluger was an editor at the literary supplement, Book Week. Mailer was responding, in part, to his request for a list of the books that most influenced him.
Thank you for your letter, which was a good one. There are no hard feelings. All you can ever ask of a book review editor is that he offers you a fair to good draw on the reviewer. And in advance I would have said Tom Wolfe was a fair choice.Tom Wolfe, novelist and new journalist, wrote a negative review of An American Dream that appeared in Book Week on 14 March 1965. The New York Review is the one I’m irritated at. Because [Robert B.] Silvers must have known (everyone else in New York did) that my work has been anathema to Philip Rahv for years.Philip Rahv, the literary critic, wrote his negative review for the 25 March 1965 number of the New York Review of Books, edited by Robert B. Silvers.
Here’s the list. I’m not very happy with it, and I’m not sure you’re doing the right thing. It’s the sort of poll that tends to reinforce a literary establishment. My opinions go into the hopper with Granville Hicks’—what does that accomplish?Granville Hicks was the literary editor of The Saturday Review, where on 20 March 1965 he gave the novel a negative review, suggesting that it was a literary hoax. Mailer called him “predictable Hicks” in a review of Norman Podhoretz’s memoir, Making It, in Partisan Review, spring 1968. Since there are more Hicks, he thrives on this sort of poll and ultimately I perish. Perhaps not personally, i.e., my “stock” can remain high, but my power to influence opinion has to be diminished by setting up a College of Electors of this sort.
								 
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Richard Lee Fulgham

was born in Germany in 1947. He received his BA in
English from the University of Georgia (1972); MA in American Literature
from the University of Kentucky (1985). He has been a professional newspaper
writer and photographer, and has published approximately a dozen
articles and stories in national magazines. His books include Appalachian Genesis (Bristol: Overmountain Press, 2000) and The Hogs of Cold Harbor (Philadelphia: Whitmore, 2005).
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Richard Schreck

Richard Schreck has published in the areas of linguistics and computer-assisted
learning in academic and professional journals and served as editor for
the TESOL Newsletter. He has taught and held administrative posts at several
universities. He has worked internationally, in Africa, Asia and the Middle
East, directed the delivery of the first online university course in central
Siberia, and later held the position as vice president of an online learning
corporation. He has led teams developing applications for trainable neural
network and computational linguistics systems. The novel Brain Game
draws from his experiences in these fields. He is a member of the Maryland
Writers’ Association and the Writer’s Center.
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Richard Stratton

is a writer whose fiction and journalism have appeared in numerous magazines including GQ, Esquire, Details, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, Penthouse, Playboy and Story Magazine. Nation Books published his latest book, Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen, in October, 2005. His Playboy article on John Gotti Junior and Senior won the 2011 New York Press Club Award for Crime Reporting.
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Rita Ciresi

Rita Ciresi is author of the novels Bring Back My Body to Me, Pink Slip, Blue Italian, and Remind Me Again Why I Married You, and two award-winning story collections, Sometimes I Dream in Italian and Mother Rocket. Under the pen name of Meg West, she is author of Love on Longboat Key, a romantic comedy set on the west coast of Florida. She is professor of English at the University of South Florida, a faculty mentor for the Bay Path University MFA program in creative nonfiction, and fiction editor of 2 Bridges Review.
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Rita Halle Kleeman, December 20, 1963

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Dear Rita Halle Kleeman,Kleeman was a staff member at P.E.N., the international writers organization. Mailer served as President of the American branch, 1984-86. His letter turning down her invitation to speak is similar to many others not included in this edition. The gregarious Mailer knew that he had to say no or fail to complete his installments on time. The speech at Wesleyan University was a notable exception.
Normally I’d say yes and be pleased to be part of your discussion on March 2, but I’m afraid it’s not possible to speak anywhere for the next six months, since I’m doing a novel in serial form for Esquire and it takes up just about all of my time. I spoke at Wesleyan last week, and was not able to prepare properly, and had cause for embarrassment in the result. Now I’m also stuck for a debate with William Buckley after the first of the year, but outside of that nothing this year, nothing. Maybe 1965.
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Robert Alderman

Robert Alderman is a writer and poet. He was born and raised on military bases throughout the southeast United States, as his father was an officer in the mechanized infantry and Special Forces. After his first attempt at college, Robert then went on to serve 8 years in the Army, from which he recently earned an honorable discharge. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of South Florida and has published fiction and poetry in several literary magazines. In 2011, he was the winner of the Scholarly and Creative Excellence Award in the Fine Arts. He was also the recipient of the Thomas E. Sanders Scholarship in Creative Writing. Robert is currently moving to Pennsylvania with his wife and two Labradors to work as a part-time lecturer at Penn State.
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Robert F. Lucid

(1930–2006), longtime Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, was a leading Mailer scholar and critic, often called “the dean” of Mailer scholarship. A close friend of Mailer’s since 1958, he was working on the authorized biography when he died. In the late 1960s, with Mailer’s mother, Fan, he created the Mailer Archive, now residing in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Lucid wrote numerous essays and reviews on Mailer and his work and edited two pioneering collections: Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work (1971), essays and reviews, and The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer (1971), selections from 13 of Mailer’s books. Friend and mentor to many in The Mailer Society, he was one of its founders and served on the Society’s Board of Directors. The Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies was created in his honor by the Society in 2003.
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Robert F. Lucid, September 29, 1964

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Dear Bob,Longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Lucid was one of ’s closest friends and his authorized biographer. They met at the University of Chicago in 1958 during Mailer’s visit there. Lucid edited the first collection of critical essays on Mailer, Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work (1971).
We’ll be in October 1. Any chance for you, Joanne, and Jackie to visit us shortly after? You know, I ended up following your advice about Roberts.Mailer took Lucid’s advice and added a scene between Rojack and the detective, Roberts, in the Dial version of AAD. There’s a short very odd little scene with him which takes place now after Cherry’s death. I believe it’s right, but it’s a very odd little scene. I’d really like you to see it. I think if you said, “Leave it in,” or “Take it out,” I would be inclined to obey. At any rate, whether I did it successfully or not—if it’s successful while I was writing it, which means it’s now impossible for me to judge it, since I’m best on things which are half-successful and so enable me to work them into shape—at any rate, realized or no, your idea was altogether right: it stayed with me all summer. So wouldn’t it be fine if I could show it to you now. Listen, what’s your phone number? Wouldn’t even know how to reach you fast if there were a good party. VaROOM!
Beverly, Annie, and Michael all fine.
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Robert Guffey

is a lecturer in the Department of English at California State University–Long Beach. His most recent books are Bela Lugosi and the Monogram Nine, coauthored with Gary D. Rhodes (BearManor Media, 2019), and Until the Last Dog Dies (Night Shade/Skyhorse, 2017), a darkly satirical novel about a young stand-up comedian who must adapt as best he can to an apocalyptic virus that destroys only the humor centers of the brain. Forthcoming is a collection of four novellas entitled Widow of the Amputation and Other Weird Crimes (Eraserhead Press, 2019). A graduate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he has also written a collection of novellas entitled Spies & Saucers (PS Publishing, 2014). His first book of nonfiction, Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form, was published in 2012. He’s written stories and articles for numerous magazines and anthologies, among them The Believer, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Black Dandy, Catastrophia, The Chiron Review, Hypnos, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, New Reader Magazine, Pearl, The Pedestal, Phantom Drift, Postscripts, Selene Quarterly Magazine, The Temz Review, The Third Alternative, and TOR.com.
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Robert J. Begiebing

is the author of many articles and stories and nine books—including memoir, fiction (a cycle of four historical novels set in New England and Europe), collected journalism, and criticism. His two critical books on Norman Mailer are Acts of Regeneration and Toward a New Synthesis. His novel Rebecca Wentworth’s Distraction won the Langum Prize for historical fiction. His fiction writing has been supported by grants from the Lila-Wallace Foundation and the New Hampshire Council for the Arts. He was one of the inaugural faculty members at the Norman Mailer Center Writers’ Colony in Provincetown, MA. He is Professor of English Emeritus at Southern New Hampshire University, where he served as the founding director of the Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction.
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Robert Lindner

Robert M. Lindner was a psychoanalyst and author of several works of popular psychology, including Rebel without a Cause (New York: Grune & Stratton, 1944), and Prescription for Rebellion (New York: Rinehart, 1952). Lindner (1914-56) and met in 1953 and became close friends.
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Robert Merrill

is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Nevada at Reno. He is the author of Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller in the Twayne’s United States Authors series, as well as Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1990 by G.K. Hall. Merrill received the University’s Foundation Professor Award in , acknowledging his record of excellence as a teacher and scholar.
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Robert Saxe

is Associate Professor of History at Rhodes College. He is the author of Settling Down: World War II Veterans’ Challenge to the Postwar Consensus (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007) and co-editor of The Underground Reader: Sources in Trans-Atlantic Counterculture, with Jeffrey H. Jackson (Berghahn Books, 2015).
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Robert Singer

is Professor of Liberal Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center [ret.]. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He co-edited The Brooklyn Film (2003), Zola and Film (2005), and he also co-authored the text, The History of Brooklyn's Three Major Performing Arts Institutions (2003). He is currently working on a book on naturalism and film interrelations, and he is the co-editor of the ReFocus volumes in both American and International Film Directors, a series of multiple editions, published by Edinburgh University Press. He has also written articles on the Faust myth for the Mellen Series in Comparative Literature, the Rodopi Perspectives in Modern Literature, and the Centennial Review, as well as articles on film studies for Film/Literature Quarterly, Griffithiana, Dedalus, Act 4, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, and PostScript.
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