Norman Mailer: Works and Days

A digital bio-bibliography — v3, preview (beta version)

The successor edition to the print Works and Days compiled by J. Michael Lennon and Donna Pedro Lennon (2000; revised 2018), continued as a digital edition under the editorship of Jerry Lucas. Two tiers: curated Work pages that carry substance, and a bibliography register that aims to be the complete record of Mailer utterances in print, by and about, 1941–2026. A life chronology runs alongside, one page per year, and every Lennon number in the prose is a link.

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• Works A–Z 917 · by form · by decade
• Days 105 years
• Bibliography register 3,434 entries, 81 years
• Letters 130
• Full texts 141 of 253 in full
• People 290 · Places 20 · Publishers 74 · Organizations 16 · Concepts 5
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• Search the register exactly and completely; the pages by relevance

1976

Mailer at the Bicentennial — the year of Some Honorable Men, Genius and Lust, and the Berkley reissue prefaces. Start with the Days page for 1976 or the 1976 register.

• Book Ends
• Set Theory
• Henry Miller: Celebrating a Cause Celebre
• Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972
• Mailer Talks about Mailer, Heroes, Women
• Henry Miller: Genius and Lust, Narcissism
• The State of the Art of Alger Hiss
• Do Writers Ride in Cadillacs?
• Mailer and the Siege of Rome
• Norman Mailer on Women, Love, Sex, Politics, and All That!
• A Harlot High and Low: Reconnoitering through the Secret Government
• The Search for Carter
• Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller
• Preface to The Presidential Papers full text
• Preface to The Deer Park
• Mailer Takes on the Heavyweight Novel
• Mailer's Poetry Reading at the Y Rated A for Effort, X for Content
• New Yorkers, etc.
• A Conversation between Norman Mailer and John Ehrlichman: The CIA and Watergate
• Preface to Advertisements for Myself
• Trial of the Warlock
• Foreword to St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley full text
• Mailer and the Times of His Time
• Preface to Papa: A Personal Memoir full text
• The Inn and Us
• Two Letters from Frank Crowther

Preview, beta version — the edition is still in progress. Full texts appear only where rights are cleared and the text is not otherwise available in print; everything else shows an excerpt and says why. See About for provenance, scope, and how to cite.