An election-year register dominated by Mailer’s opposition to the Iraq War and the Bush administration: the Playboy “Immodest Proposals” platform for the Democrats (04.2), the New York Review of Books election symposium (04.13), and a run of interviews and reported appearances (04.3, 04.5, 04.6, 04.9, 04.9a, 04.11, 04.14). Two extended father-and-son conversations with John Buffalo Mailer (04.8, 04.15) anticipate their joint 2006 book The Big Empty. The year’s largest single publication is Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969 (04.7), J. Michael Lennon’s edition of 76 letters. Also notable: Mailer’s preface to Mickey Knox‘s memoir (04.4) and his six-word story for Black Book (04.10). Counts: 6 by, 5 interview, 2 article-interview, 4 article (one a post-Lennon internet-only item), 1 collection.
Secondary: 4 about rows added from the Holmes & Lennon Mailer Review supplement (2026 pass).
Related pages
- Immodest Proposals (04.2) | The Election and America's Future (04.13) | Norman Mailer on the Media and the Message (04.3) | Mailer: Why He is Still at War (04.5) | Interview: Norman Mailer (Academy of Achievement) (04.6) | Mailer Takes Goodman to Task Over Election Issues (04.9) | Norman Mailer: Why I Am Protesting the Presidency (04.9a) | Norman Mailer: Poetic Lion in Winter (04.11) | The Lion on Canes (04.14) | Father to Son: What I've Learned about Rage (04.8) | Reflections on Courage, Morality and Sexual Pleasure (04.15) | Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969 (04.7) | Preface to The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita (04.4) | Hemingway Challenge (six-word story) (04.10)