Playboy
American men's magazine founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner. Mailer's debut here is the July 1961 symposium contribution 'Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts' (61.8), a substantial early statement of his views on obscenity, censorship, and the writer's privileges; later reprinted, in part, as 'Petty Notes on Some Sex in America' (66.11, 68.11). Mailer would return often through the 1960s and 1970s — most famously in the January 1968 Brower interview.
Mailer’s first Playboy appearance is “Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts” (61.8, July 1961) — a symposium response running to seven non-continuous pages and laying out, in characteristically charged terms, the case against censorship as a form of “totalitarian” intrusion on art. The piece was reprinted, in part, as “Petty Notes on Some Sex in America” in Cannibals and Christians (66.11) and The Idol and the Octopus (68.11).
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Related pages
- Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts
- Cannibals and Christians (66.11) | The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings by Norman Mailer on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations (68.11)
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Works
- All Night Long: The Fight, Part II
- Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts
- The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative with Text by Norman Mailer
- The Dead Are Dying of Thirst: The Fight, Part I
- The Executioner's Song
- The Executioner's Song (Playboy, Part I)
- The Executioner's Song (Playboy, Part II)
- The Executioner's Song (Playboy, Part III)
- The Fight
- The Real Meaning of the Right Wing in America: Opposing Statements on the Role of the Right Wing in America Today: A Conservative's View by William F. Buckley Jr.; A Liberal's View by Norman Mailer
- The Role of the Right Wing: A Debate
- The Womanization of America
- Trial of the Warlock