The “periodical-blizzard” year — Mailer’s most prolific publishing year to date, with 42 Lennon Works entries plus one about row (Calder Willingham’s December 1963 Esquire response to “Some Children of the Goddess”). The year of The Presidential Papers (8 November), the Scott Meredith–Dial Press move-over for An American Dream (fall), the public announcement of the new serial novel (“One is tempted to call this novel An American Dream,” December Big Bite), the Lady Jeanne Campbell divorce (16 December), the Beverly Bentley marriage (29 December), and the JFK assassination (22 November) — which the late-year Wesleyan talk (63.37a) and NYRB tribute (63.38) directly address. Counts: 33 by, 2 interview, 2 article-interview, 5 article, 1 about (Willingham) — plus 18 post-Lennon by rows for the 1963 letters in Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream (04.7), added in the 2026 letter-by-letter ingest.
Bibliography 1963
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- 50
- article
- 6
- interview
- 2
- article-interview
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- about
- 1
| Legacy | Author(s) | Title | Venue | Date | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 63.1 | Mailer, Norman | Punching Papa | New York Review of Books | 1963-01 | by |
| 63.2 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-01 | by |
| 63.3 | Mailer, Norman | Ten Thousand Words a Minute | Esquire | 1963-02 | by |
| 63.4 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-03 | by |
| 63.5 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-04 | by |
| 63.6 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-05 | by |
| 63.7 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-06 | by |
| 63.8 | Mailer, Norman | Some Children of the Goddess: Further Evaluations of the Talent in the Room | Esquire | 1963-07 | by |
| 63.9 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-08 | by |
| 63.10 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-09 | by |
| 63.11 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-10 | by |
| 63.12 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-11 | by |
| 63.13 | Mailer, Norman | The "Big Bite" | Esquire | 1963-12 | by |
| 63.14 | Mailer, Norman | Untitled poem ("One never hears the words intended") | Way Out | 1963-01 | by |
| 63.15 | Mailer, Norman; Buckley, William F. Jr. | "The Real Meaning of the Right Wing in America" (paired statements) | Playboy | 1963-01 | by |
| 63.16 | Mailer, Norman | "Responses and Reactions" II | Commentary | 1963-02 | by |
| 63.17 | Mailer, Norman | "Responses and Reactions" III | Commentary | 1963-04 | by |
| 63.18 | Mailer, Norman | "Responses and Reactions" IV | Commentary | 1963-06 | by |
| 63.19 | Mailer, Norman | "Responses and Reactions" V | Commentary | 1963-08 | by |
| 63.20 | Mailer, Norman | "Responses and Reactions" VI | Commentary | 1963-10 | by |
| 63.21 | Mailer, Norman | Smog Doggerel for the Haze"; "Static | Way Out | 1963-02 | by |
| 63.22 | Mailer, Norman; Buckley, William F. Jr. | The Role of the Right Wing: A Debate | Playboy | 1963-02 | by |
| 63.23 | Mailer, Norman | Classes | New Statesman | 1963-02-08 | by |
| 63.24 | unidentified | The Hipster and the American Right | Phoenix | 1963 | interview |
| 63.25 | Mailer, Norman | Untitled poem ("The most eligible bachelor in London") | Harvard Advocate | 1963 | by |
| 63.26 | Cowan, Paul S. | Norman Mailer Returns to Read, Philosophize on Existential Life | Harvard Crimson | 1963-03-25 | article |
| 63.27 | Mailer, Norman | Reading from Left to Right | Playboy | 1963-04 | by |
| 63.28 | Henry, Jan | Norman Mailer: The Conservative Leftist | Brooklyn Heights Press | 1963-05-30 | interview |
| 63.29 | Brower, Millicent | The Novelist Comes to Carnegie Hall | Village Voice | 1963-05-30 | article-interview |
| 63.30 | O'Doherty, Brian | Carnegie Hall Audience Listens to Norman Mailer's Thoughts | New York Times | 1963-06-01 | article |
| 63.31 | Henriques, Darryl | Existential Leader or Just Another Reader? | Brooklyn Heights Press | 1963-06-06 | article |
| 63.31a | Blumenfield, Ralph | Norman Mailer at Carnegie Hall | New York Post | 1963-06-01 | article |
| 63.32 | Mailer, Norman | The First Presidential Paper | Dissent | 1963 | by |
| 63.33 | unidentified | Antidote | Harper's Bazaar | 1963-07 | article |
| 63.34 | Christian, Frederick | The Talent and the Torment | Cosmopolitan | 1963-08 | article-interview |
| 63.35 | Mailer, Norman | The Leading Man, or the Dark Ambiguities within Us All | Book Week | 1963-09-29 | by |
| 63.36 | Mailer, Norman | The Mary McCarthy Case | New York Review of Books | 1963-10-17 | by |
| 63.37 | Mailer, Norman | The Presidential Papers | Putnam's | 1963-11-08 | by |
| 63.37a | Woodley, Richard | Author Traces Kennedy Impact | Middletown (Conn.) Press | 1963-12-12 | article |
| 63.38 | Mailer, Norman | The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After | New York Review of Books | 1963-12-26 | by |
| 63.39 | Mailer, Norman | The Last Night | Esquire | 1963-12 | by |
| 63.40 | Mailer, Norman | Letters to Myrick Land | In Myrick Land, *The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds* (Holt, Rinehart and Winston), 216–38 | 1963 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Sergio Gutiérrez-Olivos | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-09-18 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Andre Deutsch (15 October 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-10-15 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Alan Earney (15 October 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-10-15 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Reed Whittemore | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-10-15 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (16 October 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-10-16 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Willie Morris | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-10-21 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Andre Deutsch (4 November 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-11-04 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Alan Earney (4 November 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-11-04 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Adeline Lubell Naiman | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-11-05 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Francis Irby Gwaltney (9 November 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-11-09 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (26 November 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-11-26 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Edmund Skellings | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-11-26 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to David Susskind | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-11-26 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Mary Jane Shoultz | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-12-11 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (15 December 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-12-15 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Mickey Knox | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-12-17 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Francis Irby Gwaltney (20 December 1963) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-12-20 | by |
| — | Mailer, Norman | Letter to Rita Halle Kleeman | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream | 1963-12-20 | by |
| — | Willingham, Calder | The Way It Isn't Done: Notes on the Distress of Norman Mailer | Esquire | 1963-12 | about |