Norman Mailer: Works and Days

In the Ring: Grappling with the Twentieth Century

Thirty-eight letters from Mailer to various correspondents, 1945–1988, edited by J. Michael Lennon for The New Yorker; the first major posthumous gathering of Mailer's correspondence. Eighteen are reprinted in 14.3.

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A New Yorker portfolio of thirty-eight Mailer letters, 1945–1988, to various correspondents, edited by J. Michael Lennon — the first major posthumous gathering of Mailer’s correspondence, anticipating Lennon’s 2014 Selected Letters (14.3, where eighteen are reprinted). A candidate for a future letter-by-letter split, like the 04.7 collection.

First published: 2008-10-06
Form: collection
Lennon & Lennon: 08.1
Cite as: /works/2008-10-06-in-the-ring
Last updated: 2026-06-08