The New York Review of Books
American literary and intellectual semi-monthly founded in early 1963 by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein during the 114-day New York newspaper strike (December 1962 – April 1963). Mailer's review of Morley Callaghan's That Summer in Paris — 'Punching Papa' — appears in the inaugural Winter 1963 issue (63.1), making Mailer one of the first writers to publish in the new journal. NYRB recurs as a major Mailer venue for the rest of his life.
The New York Review of Books was founded in early 1963 by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein as the literary semi-monthly that, in their hope, the suspended New York Times Book Review (then immobilized by the 114-day New York newspaper strike of December 1962 to April 1963) could no longer be. The inaugural issue dated Winter 1963 carried contributions from a roster of American and British literary critics that the NYRB would maintain for the next half-century: W. H. Auden, Hannah Arendt, Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy, Robert Penn Warren, Susan Sontag, and others — and Norman Mailer, whose “Punching Papa” (63.1), a review of Morley Callaghan’s That Summer in Paris, was one of his first appearances in a major American literary journal that he would return to over the next four decades. The inaugural issue contributions were later collected as Selections from the First Two Issues of The New York Review of Books (Winter, Spring 1963), edited by Silvers and Epstein, and republished in 1988.
Mailer’s 1963 NYRB appearances also include “The Mary McCarthy Case” (63.36, 17 October 1963, on Mary McCarthy’s The Group) and “The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After” (63.38, 26 December 1963, the post-assassination symposium contribution).
Stub; to be expanded as Mailer’s NYRB recurrences are added through the 1960s and beyond.