Works by form
917 Work pages across 19 forms
Browse works: A–Z · by form · by decade · the bibliography register
Essay 189Article 175Article-interview 148Interview 110Other 43Criticism 41Collection 41Column 35Nonfiction-narrative 28Short-story 25Poem 22Biography 22Novel 19Play 8Novella 4Journal 3Screenplay 2Letter 1Film 1
Essay 189
- 1948 Life-View
- 1948 A Credo for the Living
- 1951 Authors and Humanism
- 1951 The Defence of the Compass
- 1952 Our Country and Our Culture: A Symposium
- 1954 The Meaning of 'Western Defense'
- 1954 David Riesman Reconsidered
- 1955 The Homosexual Villain
- 1955 What I Think of Artistic Freedom
- 1957 The White Negro full text
- 1958 Reflections on Hipsterism
- 1959 An Eye on Picasso
- 1959 Sentiments Larger than Work
- 1959 The Mind of an Outlaw
- 1959 Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room
- 1959 Ten Words from the Dean
- 1959 From Surplus Value to the Mass-Media
- 1959 The White Negro (City Lights pamphlet)
- 1959 Comment
- 1960 Brooklyn Minority Report: 'She Thought the Russians Was Coming'
- 1960 Massachusetts vs. Mailer
- 1960 A Program for the Nation
- 1961 An Open Letter to JFK and Fidel Castro
- 1961 The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy
- 1961 Mailer to [Lorraine] Hansberry
- 1961 Sex and Censorship in Literature and the Arts
- 1961 Untitled postscript to 'The Time of Her Time'
- 1961 Foreword to Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer full text
- 1962 The Womanization of America
- 1962 An Evening with Jackie Kennedy: Being an Essay in Three Acts
- 1962 An Open Letter to JFK from Norman Mailer
- 1963 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
- 1963 Ten Thousand Words a Minute
- 1963 The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After
- 1963 The First Presidential Paper
- 1964 Mailer vs. Scully
- 1964 Special Preface to the Bantam Edition
- 1964 Architects: Blindness Is the Fruit of Your Design
- 1964 Gargoyle, Guignol, False Closet
- 1964 A Vote for Bobby K. — Possibility of a Hero
- 1965 Cities Higher than Mountains
- 1965 The Boston Trial of Naked Lunch
- 1965 Norman Mailer on LBJ full text
- 1965 Norman Mailer on Lindsay and the City
- 1965 On Vietnam
- 1965 A Small Public Notice by Norman Mailer
- 1966 Modes and Mutations: Quick Comments on the Modern American Novel
- 1966 On Cannibals and Christians
- 1966 The Great American Mystery: A New Dissent on the Methods and Findings of the Warren Commission
- 1966 Henry Miller
- 1966 The Writer and Hollywood: Norman Mailer
- 1967 A Requiem for the Rube
- 1967 A Statement of Aims by the Playwright
- 1967 Mr. Mailer Passes Out the Cigars
- 1967 The Crazy One
- 1967 Some Dirt in the Talk: A Candid History of an Existential Movie Called Wild 90
- 1967 Foreword to The Beard, by Michael McClure full text
- 1967 In Clay's Corner
- 1967 Two Untitled Excerpts from Speech at Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade
- 1968 Mailer Statement Endorsing Wild 90
- 1968 Beyond the Law full text
- 1968 The Steps of the Pentagon
- 1968 The Battle of the Pentagon
- 1968 Miami Beach and Chicago
- 1968 Norman Mailer's Open Letter to Richard Nixon
- 1968 Black Power: A Discussion
- 1968 Up the Family Tree
- 1969 Looking for the Meat and Potatoes — Thoughts on Black Power
- 1969 Who Is to Declare that the Minority Do Not Deserve to Determine the Schools' History?
- 1969 On Accepting the Pulitzer Prize
- 1969 A Letter from Norman Mailer to the Voting Democrats of New York
- 1969 Foreword to The End of Obscenity, by Charles Rembar full text
- 1969 Why Are We in New York?
- 1971 The Prisoner of Sex excerpt
- 1971 The Prisoner of Sex
- 1971 A Course in Film-Making
- 1971 Preface to ...Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story full text
- 1971 Introduction to Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)
- 1973 The Morning After
- 1973 A Transit to Narcissus excerpt
- 1973 Marilyn Monroe's Sudden Death
- 1974 The Faith of Graffiti
- 1974 The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comments
- 1974 The Faith of Graffiti (Esquire)
- 1974 Expletive Restored
- 1974 Preface to The Joker (My Friend, Jean Malaquais) full text
- 1974 Norman Mailer: 'The Time of Her Time'
- 1975 The Murder File
- 1975 The Meaning of Vietnam
- 1975 Preface to Fiction Writer's Handbook full text
- 1975 The CIA vs. Democracy
- 1975 A Preface to The Joker
- 1976 Henry Miller: Celebrating a Cause Celebre
- 1976 Henry Miller: Genius and Lust, Narcissism
- 1976 A Harlot High and Low: Reconnoitering through the Secret Government
- 1976 Preface to The Presidential Papers full text
- 1976 Preface to The Deer Park
- 1976 Preface to Advertisements for Myself
- 1976 Foreword to St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley full text
- 1976 Preface to Papa: A Personal Memoir full text
- 1976 Two Letters from Frank Crowther
- 1977 Preface to Why Are We in Vietnam?
- 1977 Our Man at Harvard
- 1977 Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots
- 1977 A Transit to Narcissus
- 1979 Mailer on the '70s - Decade of 'Image, Skin Flicks and Porn' full text
- 1979 A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer
- 1980 In Prison
- 1980 Introduction to Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture full text
- 1980 Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots (Lord John Press)
- 1981 Until Dead: Thoughts on Capital Punishment
- 1981 A Sinister Occupation
- 1981 Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast full text
- 1982 Foreword to Dear Muffo full text
- 1983 The Poor American in London
- 1983 Dwight Macdonald: 1906-1982
- 1983 Jackie, the Prisoner of Celebrity
- 1983 Foreword to Oswald's Game full text
- 1984 A Country, Not a Scenario
- 1984 Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100
- 1985 Introduction to After the Lost Generation full text
- 1985 The Hazards and Sources of Writing
- 1986 The Writer's Imagination and the Imagination of the State
- 1988 Jackson Is a Friend of Life's Victims full text
- 1988 Fury, Fear, Philosophy: Understanding Mike Tyson
- 1989 A Folly Repeated: On Conviction and Creative Freedom, as Reflected by the Salman Rushdie Controversy
- 1989 Cosmic Ventures: A Meditation of God at War
- 1989 Introduction to Messages: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1989 full text
- 1991 Children of the Pied Piper
- 1991 How the Wimp Won the War
- 1992 Footfalls in the Crypt
- 1992 Preface to The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories full text
- 1992 Preface to A Driving Passion full text
- 1993 The Best Move Lies Very Close to the Worst
- 1995 Commencement Address, Wilkes University
- 1996 Mailer and Me excerpt · rights pending
- 1998 Introduction to The Naked and the Dead
- 1998 A Man Half Full
- 1999 Milosevic and Clinton full text
- 2000 [Statement about Norris Church and their marriage] full text
- 2000 Preface to Norman Mailer: Works and Days full text
- 2001 Foreword to Enduring Justice: Photographs full text
- 2002 For Whom the Will Toils full text
- 2003 Bush and Terror: an Exchange excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Immodest Proposals
- 2004 Preface to The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita full text
- 2004 The Election and America's Future
- 2004 [Comment on the passing of George Plimpton]
- 2005 One Idea
- 2005 America and Its War with the Invisible Kingdom of Satan
- 2005 Sartre's God Problem full text
- 2005 God's Chosen Envoy for America full text
- 2006 The March of Progress full text
- 2007 The Boy and the Bees
- 2007 The Rise of Mailerism excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 On the Authority of the Senses
- 2008 Introduction to Blue Nights: Photographs full text
- 2008 What's Wrong with America: Five Proposals full text
- 2018 The Naked and the Read: Inside the Library of Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2020 The Archivist's Apprentice
- 2021 When in Need of the Right Word, Great Writers Simply Make Them Up
- 2021 Norman Mailer: Prisoner of Sex
- 2021 Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer's Opposite excerpt · rights pending
- 2022 The Execution and Un-Execution of Norman Mailer
- 2022 Norman Mailer Wanted to Be Cancelled
- 2022 Mailer and the Monoculture
- 2022 If Norman Mailer Can Be Cancelled, No One Is Safe
- 2022 "The White Negro": Norman Mailer's Essay 65 Years Later
- 2022 The Effort to "Delete" American Novelist Norman Mailer
- 2022 What Norman Mailer's "Cancellation" Reveals
- 2022 Norman Mailer Wasn't Canceled
- 2022 Canceling My Father, Norman Mailer
- 2022 My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours
- 2022 When Kurt Vonnegut Met Norman Mailer in Cape Cod's Legendary "Helltown"
- 2022 The Making of Norman Mailer
- 2023 Critical Mass: Norman Mailer at 100
- 2023 What Should Readers Make of Norman Mailer's Life and Work?
- 2023 High Life
- 2023 Let's All Celebrate Norman Mailer
- 2023 When American Writers Had Grit
- 2023 All Hail Mailer! A Belated Eulogy for a Fellow Jeffersonian
- 2023 Another Round with Norman Mailer
- 2024 Norman Mailer vs. the Big Empty
- 2024 Where Secularism Fails
- 2024 The Real "Woke Right"
- 2024 We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now excerpt · rights pending
- 2026 From Norman Mailer's 'Fug' to Trump's Oval Office
- 2026 The Dumb and Joyful Masses
- 2026 Sex Wars, What Are They Good For? excerpt · rights pending
Article 175
- 1948 Do Professors Have Rights?
- 1948 Political Freedom for Teachers Urged
- 1948 Norman Mailer
- 1949 Panel Discussions of the Cultural Conference Delegates Cover a Wide Range of Subjects
- 1949 Guardian Reports on the Peace Conference Panels
- 1949 Weekend at the Waldorf
- 1949 Reply to the Sunday Times on The Naked and the Dead
- 1949 The Waldorf Conference
- 1959 Capote, Mailer and Miss Parker
- 1959 Eggheads in the Tall Corn
- 1959 Is Modern Man Meaningless
- 1960 'Angry Americans' Air Dissent on British TV
- 1960 Norman Mailer Cleared: Not Drunk
- 1960 Author Norman Mailer is Colorful in Court
- 1960 Norman Mailer in Tiff
- 1960 Mailer Directs Group Tour of Mailer World
- 1960 Norman Mailer Leads 300 on Tour of Own Odd World
- 1960 Norman Mailer Arrested Here in Stabbing of Wife at Party
- 1960 Norman Mailer to Undergo Test in Wife Stabbing
- 1960 Hold Norman Mailer in Stabbing of Wife
- 1960 Norman Mailer Sent to Bellevue
- 1960 Norman Mailer Sent to Bellevue over His Protest in Wife Knifing
- 1960 Of Time and the Rebel
- 1960 Birdland Head Drops Charge against Mailer
- 1961 Mailer: 'I Don't Think About It'
- 1961 Mailer Reading Halted
- 1961 People
- 1961 Judge Gives Mailer a Break
- 1961 Mailer's Sentence: Good Behavior
- 1961 The Spoken Word: Good Talkers
- 1961 An Unprofessional Eye . . . Docket No. 15883
- 1962 The Man's World
- 1962 Norman Mailer Confirms Marriage to Lady Jean
- 1962 Ex Libris
- 1962 Mailer Debates William Buckley: Chicago Political Bout a Draw
- 1962 Mailer vs. Buckley: Good Fight, No Decision
- 1962 The Literate at the Fight
- 1962 Liston and the Author: 'I Can Call You a Bum'
- 1962 The Big Fight
- 1962 The Prizefighter and the Author
- 1962 U.S. Perils Return Bout
- 1963 Norman Mailer Returns to Read, Philosophize on Existential Life
- 1963 Carnegie Hall Audience Listens to Norman Mailer's Thoughts
- 1963 Norman Mailer at Carnegie Hall
- 1963 Existential Leader or Just Another Reader?
- 1963 Antidote
- 1963 Author Traces Kennedy Impact
- 1964 Mailer and Buckley Talk on 'Open End'
- 1964 Untitled announcement
- 1965 Defenders of "Naked Lunch" Compare Burroughs to Authors of Classics
- 1965 Authors Discuss Sick Book Trend
- 1965 The Week in Books (14 March 1965)
- 1965 "Four Years Ago My Life Went Out of Control"
- 1965 "Viet Nam Day" — Few Surprises: Theme Was "Hate America"
- 1965 2,000 Hear "Teachers-In" Demand LBJ Resignations
- 1965 President Assailed by Norman Mailer
- 1965 Distorted Vision of Mailer
- 1965 In This Corner, Norman Mailer: Never the Champion, Always the Challenger
- 1966 A Band of New York Intellectuals Meets with Prof. Schlesinger for a Talk-In on Vietnam
- 1966 What Norman Means . . . .
- 1966 Will Success Spoil the "Village Voice"
- 1967 It Happened Last Night
- 1967 Opening Night at the Theater
- 1967 Joe Shaw and the Hip Boxing Syndicate
- 1967 Mailer Says U.S. Dangerously Split
- 1967 Mailer — Man of Fevered Words
- 1967 Mailer's Street Scene: Renewal on Sunday
- 1967 A Shaky Start excerpt · rights pending
- 1967 Anything Goes: Taboos in Twilight
- 1968 U.S. Should Relocate War in Amazon, Mailer Says
- 1968 Enfant Terrible at Notre Dame
- 1968 Mailler [sic] Speaks for City TNT
- 1968 From Split Ends to Bookends: Notre Dame and Norman Mailer
- 1968 The Sophomores at Notre Dame
- 1968 Democracy Has/Hasn't a Future . . . a Present
- 1968 Norman Mailer Enlists His Private Army to Act in Film
- 1968 Produced by Norman Mailer, Directed by Norman Mailer, Written by Norman Mailer, Starring Norman Mailer, and Introducing Norman Mailer's Friends
- 1968 Mailer Film Party a Real Bash: Broken Jaw, 2 Bloody Heads
- 1968 People (Time, 9 August 1968)
- 1968 Newsmakers (Newsweek, 12 August 1968)
- 1968 Norman Mailer, Movie Maker
- 1968 Hundred Injured: 178 Are Arrested as Guardsmen Join in Using Tear Gas
- 1968 At Play in the Fields of the Bored
- 1969 Norman Mailer '43 to Run for Election to Overseers
- 1969 Scholars Debate Whether 'Feel' Has Killed Rationalists' 'Think'
- 1969 The Book Industry Presents the 20th National Book Awards
- 1970 Mailer on Chi 7 Judge: 'A Fast Featherweight'
- 1970 '68 Yippie Plans Stunned Mailer
- 1970 Mailer Says Piety Dulls Moon Appeal
- 1970 Mailer Starts Term in Jail, Labels Nixon 'Uriah Heep'
- 1970 Mailer Calls Nixon a Dickens 'Heep' Creep
- 1970 Norman Mailer to Serve Sentence in Alexandria
- 1970 Mailer at Venice with Film Aiming to Be Memorable
- 1970 Mailer, in London, Trades Jabs with Audience over New Film excerpt · rights pending
- 1971 Light on Orwell
- 1971 Morris Resigns in Harper's Dispute
- 1971 Mailer Tells Harper's — Me, Too
- 1971 Hang-Up at Harper's
- 1971 Mailer Fracas Fails to Jell
- 1971 Norman Mailer vs. Women's Lib
- 1971 Sexism — A Better Show than Sex
- 1971 Theatre for Ideas: Mailer and the Women
- 1971 What Happened to Mozart's Sister?
- 1971 My Mailer Problem
- 1971 People (Time column, 20 December 1971)
- 1972 Female Students Interrupt Mailer
- 1972 Mailer Battles Feminists
- 1972 Mailer's on Tour, Recouping
- 1972 Mailer Discusses His Film
- 1972 Mailer Hails Cinema Verite of His Film Maidstone
- 1972 Mailer Addresses Mailer on Mailer
- 1972 Getting at the Truth about Norman Mailer
- 1972 Mailer Offers Views on Amateur Movie
- 1972 Drunken Mailer Amuses Full House
- 1972 God Bless Drinking in Public
- 1972 Norman Mailer Talks Politics at Towson
- 1972 Mailer Finds Book Is No Advertisement for Himself
- 1972 Norman Mailer Asks Correction of Quote
- 1972 Mailer Criticizes American Politics
- 1972 Norman Mailer in Full Cry
- 1972 People (Time, 6 November 1972)
- 1972 TV Review: Mailer and Laing Seen in Channel 13 Talk
- 1972 The Day the Movement Died
- 1972 Caribbean Cruise Attempts to Seek Meaning of Apollo
- 1973 Writer as Something Else
- 1973 Class of '43 — Waiting for Mailer
- 1973 Mailer Enjoys a Day in the Sun at MacDowell Colony
- 1974 Some Notables Name Their Bests
- 1974 Mailer Headlines Counter-Spy Pitch
- 1975 CIA, FBI 'Threaten Nation'
- 1976 Book Ends
- 1976 Mailer Talks about Mailer, Heroes, Women
- 1976 The State of the Art of Alger Hiss
- 1976 Do Writers Ride in Cadillacs?
- 1976 Mailer's Poetry Reading at the Y Rated A for Effort, X for Content
- 1976 New Yorkers, etc.
- 1977 Johnny Reeferseed
- 1977 Writers' Writers
- 1978 Mom Mailer's Advice, and Other Things
- 1978 Notes on People
- 1979 Mailer: Poor Manager
- 1979 Mailer's Memory
- 1979 Where Nothing Is Felt
- 1979 Life with Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 1979 Private Lives
- 1979 The Books That Made Writers
- 1980 Norman Mailer V. Ryan O'Neal: The Author Unveils His Sunday Punch
- 1980 Mailer Wins Pulitzer for Gilmore Story
- 1980 In a Merry Marriage-Go-Round, Norman Mailer Plans a Double Wedding
- 1980 How is Fiction Doing?
- 1980 Mailer, Dying for a Part in 'Ragtime'
- 1998 The Joy of Bricks excerpt · rights pending
- 2000 At 77, Mailer gives up on the Sexual Revolution excerpt · rights pending
- 2002 The Very Literate Are Different: Zelda, Scott and Ernest on Stage excerpt · rights pending
- 2003 A 'Long Day's Journey' with the Mailers excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Are You Open-Minded Enough for Norman Mailer on Iraq? excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Mailer: Why He is Still at War
- 2004 Mailer Takes Goodman to Task Over Election Issues
- 2004 Norman Mailer: Poetic Lion in Winter excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 The Lion on Canes excerpt · rights pending
- 2005 Don't be a Blogger Manqué, Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2005 You've Got Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2006 US Writer Norman Mailer Wins Top France Prize excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 My Friend Norman
- 2007 Still a Brawler at Heart
- 2007 Ancient Evening
- 2007 Father, Son Share Stage
- 2007 Arts, Briefly
- 2007 The Road from Danzig excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Mailer Gets Hammered excerpt · rights pending
- 2021 Just the fact(oid)s, please excerpt · rights pending
- 2022 Was Norman Mailer Canceled? His Publishers Say No.
- 2024 The Infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, as Seen by Novelist Norman Mailer
- 2025 Bringing the Fun Back to Fun City: Mamdani, Mailer and Breslin excerpt · rights pending
- 2026 The 26 Most American Books of All Time
Article-interview 148
- 1948 The Author
- 1948 People Who Read and Write
- 1948 Wonder Boy Novelist excerpt · rights pending
- 1948 The Naked Are Fanatics and the Dead Don't Care excerpt · rights pending
- 1948 Rugged Times excerpt · rights pending
- 1952 Authors Debate U.S., USSR Issues at Mt. Holyoke
- 1955 Two Ex-GI's Write Revenge on Army
- 1957 Mailer Finishes First Stage Work
- 1958 Hip Mailer Talks to Orwell Forum; Defines American Beatnik Generation
- 1959 2 Symposium Authors Say Write for Elite, Not Masses
- 1959 Interest in Books Flowers Where the Tall Corn Grows
- 1959 Critic At-Large: Mailer's Apology
- 1961 The Ordeal of Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 1961 Peter Underwood Meets Norman Mailer
- 1961 Young American Rebel: An Interview with Norman Mailer
- 1961 Norman Mailer in Austin
- 1962 The Week in Books
- 1962 Two Bucks — 20 Dances
- 1962 Wed to Lady Jean? A Mystery, by Norman Mailer
- 1963 The Novelist Comes to Carnegie Hall
- 1963 The Talent and the Torment
- 1965 Mailer's Castle: Far Out, Way Up, and Swinging
- 1965 Behind the Lines: Dropping His Guard
- 1965 In and Out of Books (14 March 1965)
- 1965 PPA Press Conference excerpt · rights pending
- 1965 Norman Mailer's Night Out
- 1965 Clay, Mailer in "Draw"
- 1965 Mailer on Buckley: "Tarnished Charm"
- 1966 In and Out of Books: Mailer
- 1967 Norman Mailer's "Deer Park": Countdown Drama
- 1967 Norman Mailer, Playwright
- 1967 Norman Mailer Has Calmed Quite a Bit
- 1967 They Seek Out Saul Bellow
- 1967 Uncle Norman Makes the Obscene
- 1967 Why We Are Interviewing Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 1967 Following the Bouncing Talk of Norman Mailer
- 1968 Norman Mailer Has a New Attitude Toward Himself
- 1968 Mailer at Ease
- 1968 A Writer's Diary: Mailer Sees Mailer as Book Character for his 'Armies'
- 1968 On the Steps of a Zeitgeist
- 1968 Mailer's New Movie Has a Punchy Denouement
- 1968 War & Peace: The Mailer Version
- 1968 Critics' Influence on Campus Part of New Producer Mailer's Insights
- 1968 Norman Mailer in Focus
- 1968 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, It's Norman Mailer
- 1968 Flying High with Mailer
- 1969 Mailer Reviews a Chaotic Year
- 1969 Norman Mailer Wins an Award
- 1970 Mailer's Opera
- 1970 Confrontation with Norman Mailer
- 1970 The Nonviolent Norman Mailer
- 1971 The Siege of Mailer: Hero to Historian
- 1971 Authors and Editors: Norman Mailer
- 1971 The Rape of the Moon: Norman Mailer Talks about Sexual Lunacy and the WASP
- 1971 Norman Mailer Crosses Swords with Women's Lib
- 1971 Norman Mailer — Ego, Movies and the Moon
- 1971 The Mailer Plan to Save Los Angeles
- 1971 Norman Mailer: Devil in the Fire
- 1971 Norman's Phantasmagoria
- 1972 Mailer: A Maverick Who Became... Aquarius Rex
- 1972 Norman Mailer in Illinois
- 1973 Two Myths Converge: NM Discovers MM
- 1974 The Rich, Famous, Talented and Powerful Resolve...
- 1974 Is He Writing the Big One?
- 1974 Mailer: I'm Sorry about the 'Marilyn' Book
- 1974 Norman Mailer (in Tongues of Fallen Angels)
- 1975 Norman Mailer: Humor Saves Day for the Man of La Mancha
- 1975 Before He's Naked or Dead, Norman Mailer Goes for Broke: The Biggest Novel of All
- 1976 Mailer and the Siege of Rome
- 1976 The Search for Carter
- 1976 Mailer Takes on the Heavyweight Novel
- 1977 Literary Lasagna: A Conversation with the Least Famous Person You'll See Regularly at Elaine's
- 1978 Mailer's Real-Life Escapades Outdo Fiction
- 1978 The Many Marriages of Norman Mailer
- 1979 Battling Mailers Agree Norman's a Genius
- 1979 Life with Mailer: After Four Years, So Far, So Good
- 1979 Norman Mailer: Warrior in the Battle of the Sexes
- 1980 Do Facts and Fiction Mix?
- 1980 Mailer Book Was the 2nd Choice of Fiction Advisory Panel
- 1980 Findings Hardly Startling to Oft-Married Mailer
- 1980 To Mailer, Joyce Was 'a Wild Sound Track'
- 1980 Browsing Through Mailer's 'Cannibals'
- 1980 Norman Mailer on Wives, Women, Books
- 1980 Mailer on Mailer (Beyette)
- 1980 Mailer Writes Another Monroe Doctrine
- 1983 Mailer Goes Egyptian full text
- 1983 The Surreal Professor
- 1984 The Essential Mailer: Author Norman Mailer Talks about His New Novel, the Irish, and His Love for Chicago
- 1984 Norman Mailer: The Prisoner of Celebrity
- 1986 Throwing Punches: Mailer on Mailer
- 1987 Mailer by the Bay excerpt · rights pending
- 1987 Novelist Mailer Turns His Latest Book into a Movie excerpt · rights pending
- 1987 Why Norman Mailer Won't Dance excerpt · rights pending
- 1987 Mailer's Minuet: 'Tough Guys' Two Left Feet
- 1991 Stormin' Norman excerpt · rights pending
- 1996 Searching for Deliverance
- 1997 Why Mailer Decided to Play Jesus excerpt · rights pending
- 1997 Courage in Profiles: Attacked by Critics for His Hubris, Norman Mailer Nonetheless Tackles the Tough Topics excerpt · rights pending
- 1997 Mailer Retells the Greatest Story Ever excerpt · rights pending
- 1997 And the Word Was with Norman excerpt · rights pending
- 1998 Life and Letters: The Contender excerpt · rights pending
- 1998 After Half a Century, Still Writing, Still Questing excerpt · rights pending
- 1998 Making Books: 'Private Ryan' Reviews a Genre excerpt · rights pending
- 2001 Ruin More Beautiful than the Building excerpt · rights pending
- 2002 Machismo Isn't that Easy to Wear excerpt · rights pending
- 2003 Old Brawler Won't Grapple with History: Norman Mailer Ruminates on Literature and Life excerpt · rights pending
- 2003 Norman's Still in a Conquering Mood at 80 excerpt · rights pending
- 2003 Mailer Was the Rage excerpt · rights pending
- 2003 'Yes, I Misbehaved Sometimes' excerpt · rights pending
- 2003 To Mailer, a Good Soldier Puts War on Paper excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Father to Son: What I've Learned about Rage excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Reflections on Courage, Morality and Sexual Pleasure
- 2005 Mailer v. Mailer: Norman Mailer Talks with His Son, John Buffalo Mailer, about the Sport of Boxing
- 2005 Mailer Gives Archives to Ransom Center
- 2005 Mailer's Miscellany excerpt · rights pending
- 2005 Mailer's Vast Archives to Be Housed in Texas
- 2005 Mailer Archives in Texas
- 2005 Norman Mailer: The Last Buccaneer Looks Back
- 2005 The Write Place
- 2005 Mailer's Papers Come to Texas
- 2006 Fallen God of Small Things
- 2006 A Conversation with Norman Mailer
- 2007 Exploring the Roots of Evil
- 2007 Mailer Plays Devil's Advocate excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Norman Mailer Invokes the Devil to Take on Hitler
- 2007 Tough Guys Don't Quit
- 2007 Mailer on Bush, Obama & Writing excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Stormin' Norman Defends his 'Castle' excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Literary Lion Not So Sure about the Big Catch Anymore
- 2007 Demon Seed: Norman Mailer Imagines Hitler as a Young Man
- 2007 Mailer's Novel Ideas about Hitler
- 2007 Norman Mailer Tackles Hitler's Youth excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Mailer's Young Hitler Novel Angers Germans excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 The Last Man Standing excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Epilogue, A Rough Draft
- 2007 Literary Lightning Rod
- 2007 Norman Mailer Talks about 'Incestuary' Hitler, Satan, Monroe
- 2007 Author! Author! The Devil and Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 The Lion in Winter: Norman Mailer Talks about Writing His First Novel in a Decade
- 2007 Writers Take Out the Knives excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 The Pictures: Tough Guys
- 2007 The Sound and the Baby Führer
- 2007 Tough Guys Do God
- 2007 Get Your Ass Off My Pillow
- 2007 The Author at Home: Norman Mailer
- 2007 The Lion in Winter: Five Snapshots
- 2009 Mailer's Final Legacy
- 2011 Norman Mailer's Eclectic Life, as Seen Through His Last Home excerpt · rights pending
Interview 110
- 1949 '48's Nine
- 1951 Talk with Norman Mailer
- 1953 Backstage with Esky
- 1955 An Intimate Interview with Norman Mailer
- 1958 Mike Wallace Asks: Norman Mailer
- 1958 Norman Mailer (in Mike Wallace Asks)
- 1959 Hip, Hell, and the Navigator
- 1961 An Interview with Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 1961 Angry Young Rebel with a Cause: An Interview with Norman Mailer
- 1961 The Pursuit of Experience: W.J. Weatherby Talks to Norman Mailer
- 1961 Living Like Heroes
- 1961 TV Violence? It's a Sedative, Says Norman Mailer
- 1961 The First Day's Interview
- 1962 Norman Mailer Speaks His Mind excerpt · rights pending
- 1962 An Impolite Interview with Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 1963 Norman Mailer: The Conservative Leftist
- 1963 The Hipster and the American Right
- 1964 Norman Mailer: The Art of Fiction XXXII
- 1964 A Conversation with Mailer
- 1964 Talking of Violence
- 1965 Norman Mailer on An American Dream
- 1965 Norman Mailer's "American Dream": Superman Returns
- 1966 His Childhood Was a Happy Time: Norman Mailer Remembers Long Branch
- 1967 Mr. Mailer Interviews Himself full text
- 1968 Playboy Interview: Norman Mailer
- 1968 Why? Why? Why? Why — Are We in Vietnam?
- 1968 Direct
- 1968 Pick of the Paperbacks
- 1968 Pooter: Vidal on Mailer on Vidal
- 1968 Norman Mailer: Why Do People Dislike America?
- 1968 Mailer, McLuhan and Muggeridge: On Obscenity
- 1968 Mailer's Musings
- 1969 Norman Mailer, Film Maker
- 1970 Norman Mailer (interview in The Film Director as Superstar)
- 1971 Portrait of a Man Reading
- 1972 Why Is the Moon So Boring
- 1972 Norman Mailer Speaks: Films vs. Plays
- 1973 What Apollo Has Meant to Mankind
- 1973 Mailer's Maidstone: Where's the Reality?
- 1973 A Conversation with Norman Mailer
- 1973 Mailer on Marriage and Women
- 1973 Norman Mailer Talks to Melvyn Bragg about... Marilyn Monroe
- 1973 Chasing the Great White Whale: Norman Mailer, Part I
- 1973 Untitled interview (Brushfire)
- 1973 Mailer on Mailer: An Interview
- 1974 Frank Crowther: Norman Mailer, Part II
- 1974 A Section of an Interview between Norman Mailer and David Young
- 1974 Norman Mailer on Science and Art
- 1975 The Rolling Stone Interview, Part I: Aquarius Hustling
- 1975 The Rolling Stone Interview, Part II: Sympathy for the Devil
- 1975 Norman Mailer: I'm Like a Minor Champ
- 1975 Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer full text
- 1976 Norman Mailer on Women, Love, Sex, Politics, and All That!
- 1976 A Conversation between Norman Mailer and John Ehrlichman: The CIA and Watergate
- 1977 Norman Mailer: Writer
- 1979 Norman Mailer: The Champ of American Letters... (High Times) excerpt · rights pending
- 1979 PW Interviews: Norman Mailer
- 1979 Talking with Mailer
- 1979 A Murderer's Tale: Norman Mailer Talking to Melvyn Bragg
- 1979 Desert Island Discs: Norman Mailer
- 1979 Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore
- 1980 Mailer on Gilmore
- 1980 An Interview with Norman Mailer (Aldridge)
- 1980 A Librarian Interviews Norman Mailer
- 1980 Norman Mailer on Love, Sex, God, and the Devil
- 1981 Creators on Creating: Norman Mailer
- 1981 Norman Mailer: The Interview
- 1982 Mailer Talking
- 1983 Twelfth Round: An Interview with Norman Mailer full text
- 1983 Mailer on Moses
- 1983 God and Man and Norman Mailer
- 1987 Interview with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association
- 1994 Like a Lady
- 1997 Norman Mailer on Literary Instincts and Ambitions excerpt · rights pending
- 1998 Fine Distinctions: Norman Mailer on Fiction, Non-Fiction and the Differences between Them excerpt · rights pending
- 1998 In Prose or in Person, Still the Tough Guy excerpt · rights pending
- 1998 Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Barney Rosset: Their Struggles Against Censorship Recalled excerpt · rights pending
- 1999 Interview with Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2002 11 September was 'larger than the atom bomb' excerpt · rights pending
- 2003 Our Religion Is Called America excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Norman Mailer on the Media and the Message excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Interview: Norman Mailer (Academy of Achievement) excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Norman Mailer: Why I Am Protesting the Presidency excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 Norman Mailer: On Pot excerpt · rights pending
- 2004 A Certain Grim Pleasure: Norman Mailer Speaks with James Toback about Film
- 2006 Still Punching
- 2006 The Nerve Interview: Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer
- 2006 Flag-waving U.S. Shows Signs of Totalitarianism
- 2006 Relative Values: Norman Mailer and His Son John excerpt · rights pending
- 2006 Norman Mailer on Anger and Love
- 2007 In Conversation… with Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 The Proust Questionnaire: Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Writing with the Devil excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Author: Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Forty Years of Rolling Stone: Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2007 Oh, the Devils He Knows
- 2007 Advertisements for a Gay Self
- 2007 The Art of Fiction, No. 193, Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2008 Author, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2008 Q&A in 1984 with Norman Mailer
- 2011 Please Do Not Understand Me Too Quickly
- 2012 Mailer is Back excerpt · rights pending
- 2014 An Excerpt from Mailer's Last Interview full text
- 2018 Why Norman Mailer Still Matters in 2018
- 2022 Barbara Mailer Wasserman on ArtScene
- 2023 A Hundred Years of Norman Mailer
- 2023 Norman Mailer Turns 100: The Reckless Truth-Teller
- 2024 Susan Mailer and J. Michael Lennon on Talk Louisiana
- 2024 J. Michael Lennon on ArtScene, with Erika Funke
- 2025 The Son Also Rises: John Buffalo Mailer on Defending Cinema in the Age of Slop excerpt · rights pending
Criticism 41
- 1948 War & No Peace excerpt · rights pending
- 1961 The Blacks full text
- 1963 Punching Papa
- 1963 Some Children of the Goddess: Further Evaluations of the Talent in the Room
- 1963 The Leading Man, or the Dark Ambiguities within Us All
- 1963 The Mary McCarthy Case
- 1964 The Best Man, 1964: To Pick Him, We Must Choose between Nostalgic Extremism and Overwhelming Moderation
- 2019 An American Dream: A Critical Bibliography
- 1965 An American Dream: Reception and Reviews, 1965
- 2019 An American Dream: Timeline of Events, 1962–1966
- 2004 An American Dream: Word-Count Comparison, Esquire and Dial Editions
- 1967 Norman Mailer's Cherry Pie excerpt · rights pending
- 1967 A Disturbance of the Peace excerpt · rights pending
- 1967 At the 'Filth Barrier' with Norman Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 1967 Review of Why Are We in Vietnam? excerpt · rights pending
- 1968 The Armies of the Night: Reception and Prizes
- 1971 Norman Writes a Dithyramb
- 1975 Mankind in Barbary: The Individual and Society in the Novels of Norman Mailer
- 1976 Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller
- 1976 Mailer and the Times of His Time
- 2013 The Writing on the Wall excerpt · rights pending
- 2013 Norman Mailer Speaks to America From Beyond the Grave excerpt · rights pending
- 2017 Understanding Norman Mailer
- 2018 Fighting Words
- 2018 Mr. Mailer Goes to Washington: The Armies of the Night Fifty Years On excerpt · rights pending
- 2020 The Savage Poet
- 2023 Mailer's Last Days?
- 2023 Fiction: Revisiting Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead
- 2023 In the Ring with Mailer
- 2023 The Importance of Norman Mailer
- 2023 Advertisements for Democracy: Norman Mailer's Anti-Fascist Eloquence
- 2023 Norman Mailer's Ripe Garbage
- 2024 A Hell of a Performance
- 2024 A Haunting Doc Captures the Majesty of the Mailer Experience
- 2024 The Ghosts of Tough Guys Don't Dance
- 2024 How Norman Mailer Changed the Face of Biography excerpt · rights pending
- 2025 Fighting for One's Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots excerpt · rights pending
- 2025 Review of Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer excerpt · rights pending
- 2026 Revisiting Norman Mailer's 'White Negro' Essay excerpt · rights pending
- 2026 Here's Piety in Your Eye excerpt · rights pending
- 2026 50 Years Later, Reconsidering Norman Mailer's Wild, Bloody Provincetown Noir
Collection 41
- 1956 Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers
- 1959 Advertisements for Myself
- 1962 Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)
- 1963 The Presidential Papers
- 1966 Cannibals and Christians
- 1967 The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer
- 1968 The Idol and the Octopus: Political Writings by Norman Mailer on the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations
- 1968 A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer
- 1969 Running against the Machine: A Grass Roots Race for the New York Mayoralty
- 1971 The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer
- 1972 Existential Errands
- 1976 Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972
- 1980 The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (hardcover)
- 1982 Pieces and Pontifications
- 1982 The Essential Mailer
- 1988 Conversations with Norman Mailer
- 1998 The Time of Our Time
- 2003 The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing
- 2003 Why Are We at War?
- 2004 Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969
- 2005 Norman Mailer's Provincetown: The Wild West of the East
- 2006 The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America
- 2007 'A Series of Tragicomedies': Mailer's Letters on The Deer Park full text
- 2008 In the Ring: Grappling with the Twentieth Century full text
- 2008 The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer
- 2009 A Man of Letters
- 2009 Norman Mailer: Letters on Writing
- 2009 Norman Mailer: 'Deer Park' Letters
- 2009 Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Henry Abbott
- 2011 Norris Mailer: A Life in Words
- 2013 The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer
- 2014 Selected Letters of Norman Mailer
- 2018 Norman Mailer: Collected Essays of the 1960s
- 2018 Norman Mailer: Four Books of the 1960s
- 2018 Norman Mailer: The Sixties (boxed set)
- 2021 Norman Mailer in Context
- 2022 Mailer's Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
- 2022 Norman Mailer at 100: Conversations, Correlations, Confrontations
- 2023 Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100
- 2023 The Naked and the Dead & Selected Letters 1945–1946
- 2023 A Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy