Contributors

Mashey Bernstein holds a PhD in American Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he currently teaches in the Writing Program and in the Film and Media Studies Department. He has written extensively on Mailer in The Mailer Review, Studies in American-Jewish Literature, the San Francisco Review of Books, and the London Jewish Chronicle. He also writes on film, especially Jewish aspects of the media. Scott Duguid is in the process of completing his Doctoral Thesis on and the aesthetics/politics of the avant-garde at the University of Edinburgh. His interests include twentieth-century fic- tion, with a particular focus on America; intersections between liter- ature and art history; theories of modernism and postmodernism. He has published articles on Norman Mailer, and on Warhol’s films. Jason Epstein was Editorial Director at Random House for forty years, where he developed the Vintage paperbacks series and pub- lished Norman Mailer, , E.L. Doctorow, , , Elaine Pagels, and Richard Holbrook. In 1952 he created the Anchor Books imprint; in 1963 he cofounded the New York Review of Books, and in 1979 he became one of the cofounders of the , which was intended to market archival quality editions of American classic literature. The first volumes were published in 1982, and the company now prints about 250,000 vol- umes per year. Epstein is the first winner of the for Distinguished Service to American Letters (1988) and, in 2007, he has won the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement. Currently he is running On Demand Books, which he cofounded in 2004. This company markets the Espresso Book Machine. Ashton Howley teaches literature and writing at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia. He has taught at the University of Ottawa and at Yonsei University and Jeonju University in Korea. His publications include “Mailer Again: Heterophobia in Tough Guys 196 CONTRIBUTORS

Don’t Dance” (JML 30.1, 2006) and “Squaring the Self: Versions of Transcendentalism in E.E. Cummings’s The Enormous Room” (Spring 12, 2002). Brian J. McDonald holds the PhD in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include post–World War II American and British fiction and the relationship between imaginative literature and liberal political thought. His essays have appeared in Studies in American Jewish Fiction, Journal of Modern Literature, and Gothic Studies. Norris Mailer has worked as a high school teacher, a model, a film and theater actress, a painter, and as the artistic director of the Provincetown Repertory Theatre. She is the author of the novels Windchill Summer and Cheap Diamonds, and she has just completed a memoir of her life with Norman Mailer entitled A Ticket to the Circus. It will be published in April 2010. Jeffrey F.L. Partridge is Associate Professor of Humanities and Chair of Humanities at Capital Community College in Connecticut. He is the author of Beyond Literary Chinatown, a 2007 American Book Award winner from the Before Columbus Foundation. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature, MELUS, and Studies in the Literary Imagination. James Emmett Ryan is an Associate Professor of English at Auburn University; he has been researching the ways American writers and literary cultures have been shaped by transformative historical forces such as religion, politics, technology, and commercial media. He also has studied topics in American Studies such as disability and author- ship, Herman Melville’s fiction, nineteenth-century American Catholic literary culture, modern architecture, and New Journalism and has recently published essays and reviews in American Quarterly, American Literary History, Religion and American Culture, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, the Journal of Modern Literature, American Literature, Early American Literature, and the Encyclopedia of Alabama. His new book Quakers and American Culture, 1650–1950 is was published in 2009 from the University of Wisconsin Press. Lawrence Shainberg was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His works include the novels One on One, Memories of Amnesia and Crust, as well as nonfiction writings Brain Surgeon and Ambivalent Zen. His stories and articles have appeared in Paris Review, Esquire, Harpers, CONTRIBUTORS 197 Magazine, and other publications. He lives now in Truro, Massachusetts, and New York City. John Whalen-Bridge is Associate Professor of English at the National University of Singapore; he has written Political Fiction and the American Self (1998). He has also published articles on American lit- erature in relation to Buddhism, Orientalism, the Cold War, and pragmatism. With Tan Sor-hoon, he coedited Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World (2007). He coedits the SUNY series Buddhism and American Culture with Gary Storhoff, which includes The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature (2009) and American Buddhism as a Way of Life (2010). He is cur- rently working on “engaged aesthetics” in the work of Gary Snyder, Charles Johnson, and Maxine Hong Kingston. Heather Wolffram is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the University of Queensland. She is the author of several articles on psychical research and parapsychology in the German context as well as a book titled The Stepchildren of Science: Psychical Research and Parapsychology in Germany, c. 1870–1939 (Rodopi, 2009). She is currently working on a project that considers the use of hypnosis by European psychiatrists during the late nineteenth century as a “cure” for homosexuality. Index

“Author’s Note” (DeLillo), 8, A Moveable Feast (Hemingway), 179 125, 130 Anderson, Ken, 151 “Conversion of the Jews” (Philip Anderson, Quentin, 119 Roth), 78 Arendt, Hannah, 94 “Karma of Words” (Whalen-Bridge), Ariosophy, 142–143, 145–146, 24, 30 148, 150 “Notes on Camp” (Sontag), 24 Aristotle, 59–63, 65, 67, 69 “Paranoid Style in American Asch, Sholem, 6, 73, 75–78, 80, 83 Politics, the” (Hofstadter), 127 Augustine, see St. Augustine “Preface to a Twenty Volume A Vision (Yeats), 107, 110 Suicide Note” (Jones), 2 “Second Coming, The” (Yeats), 110 Baraka, Amiri, see Jones, Leroi “Uncanny, The” (Freud), 25 Beebe, John, 67, 105–106 “Zelda, Scott, and Ernest: A Bloom, Harold, 16, 69n2, 89, 113, Dramatic Dialogue” (Quinn, 184, 190n1 Plimpton), 179 Bourdieu, Pierre, 35 The Brooklyn Crucifixion, 77 1950s, 22, 36, 40, 136n2, 146, 183 Browning, Christopher, 139 1960s, 15–17, 22–23, 35–36, 38, Busa, Christopher, 62, 118 40, 126, 146, 183, 186 Bush, George, W., 120n7, 173, 189 1970s, 9, 15–16, 35, 38, 43, 136n2, Byron, George Gordon, Lord, ix 147, 187 1980s, 17, 22, 24, 26–67, 30, Call It Sleep (Roth), 78 38–39, 43–44, 148, 186 Capote, Truman, 35 Carter, President James Earl, 30n2 Addiction, 4, 18–19 Chandler, Raymond, 17, 24, 40 Adorno, Theodor, 16, 29–30 CIA, 4, 7, 38, 41, 123–128, Aesthetics of Excess (Weiss), 117 130–136, 137n5, 186 Against Interpretation (Sontag), City of God (Augustine), 90, 92 24–25 Cold War, 7, 27, 123–125, 127, AIDS, 20, 23–24, 26n11 129, 132–133, 135–136, Alcoholism 137n7, 185–186 Hemingway, alcoholism and Confessions (Augustine), 86, 89, 95 depression of, 173, 176–178 Conspiracy Culture (Knight), 126, American Psycho (Ellis), 26–29, 130–131 31n11 Costello, Frank, 19 200 INDEX

Cunningham, Michael, 17, 30n7 Freud, Sigmund, 4, 21, 25, 106 Curious Case of Syd Finch Fromm, Eric, 109 (Plimpton), 172 Gambling, 82, 168, 171, 174, Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya (Wilson 190n3 & Nabokov), 162 Gelertner, David, 83 Dearborn, Mary. V., 17, 30n1 Gibson, Mel, 77 DeCurtis, Anthony, 125, 137 Gilmore, Gary, 37, 41, 87, 183 DeLillo, Don, 8, 123, 125, 128, Glazer, Nathan, 79 131, 133, 137n5 Glenday, Michael, 7, 17, 119 DeMott, Benjamin, 31n12, 106 Gnosticism, 5, 57–59, 64–69, 69n3 Devil, see Satan God, 2–3, 5, 7, 21, 55–69, 69n7, Didion, Joan, 10, 35, 184, 190n2 70n8, 76–78, 80–83, 85–101, Donoghue, Roger, 19 105, 119n2, 140, 169, 178, 184 Dreiser, Theodore, 46 Godden, Richard, 16, 23 Driesch, Hans, 144 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Dualism, 5, 6, 56, 59, 85, 86, 89, 88, 90 91–94, 97, 100, 109, 111, Gold, Michael, 79 120n4, 188 Gordon, Mary, 75–76 Duguid, Scott, 49n4 Gospel of Mary, 58–59, 63, 65, 68 Great Gatsby, The, 19, 160, Edmondson, Mark, 129 169–170 Egypt, 7, 15, 28–29, 70n10, Grecian Urn, The (professional 105–108, 110, 114–118, 120, wrestler), 165 187–189, 190n4 Green, André, 105, 108 Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Griffiths, Paul J., 94, 99 (Budge), 70, 106, 107, 110, 190n4 Hammett, Dashiell, 40 Ellis, Bret Easton, 26–29 Harris, Sam, 57 Ellroy, James, 20 Harvard University, 46, 171 Epstein, Jason, 1, 184, 190n1 Hemingway, Ernest, 9, 46, 56, 116, Explaining Hitler (Rosenbaum), 8, 159–164, 168–73, 176–179, 139, 153 181–181, 185–186 Hess, Rudolf, 140, 143–145 Faludi, Susan, 114 Hillman, James, 67–68, 69n6 Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), 176 Himmler, Heinrich, 96, 139–140, Farrell, James T., 46 143–145, 150 Feidelson, Charles, 82 Hitler, Adolph, 1, 6, 8, 86–87, 94, Feminism, 17–19, 22, 25, 40, 97–101, 139–154, 193–194 114–115, 166, 175 Hofstadter, Richard, 127–128 Fiedler, Leslie, 49n7 Holocaust, 5, 69, 99, 150, Fisher, Philip, 47 154, 188 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 9, 19, 160–179 Homophobia, 121–124 Fitzgerald, Zelda, 9, 160, 165–166, Hughes, Robert, 30 169–170, 173, 178–179 Huxley, Aldous, 61 Foster, Hal, 30 Huyssens, Andreas, 16 INDEX 201

Ideas of Good and Evil (Yeats), 107 “Children of the Pied Piper,” Imperial Self, The (Anderson), 119 26–27 Irving, John, 162 “End of Obscenity,” 44 “Mailer Meets Madonna,” 31n9 Jameson, Fredric, 17, 21, 29–30 “Metaphysics of the Belly,” 63–67 Janitchek, 175 “A Note on Comparative Jenkins, Philip, 57 Pornography,” 26 Jesus, 5–6, 55–69, 70n10, 73–83, Advertisements for Myself, 2, 9, 86–87, 91, 93, 101 10n1, 10n3, 35, 37, 81 Jews Without Money (Gold), 79 An American Dream, 1–2, 24, Johnson, Charles, 184, 190n2 27, 40, 80, 82, 186 Jones, Leroi (Amiri Baraka), 2, 10 , 1, 3, 4, 7, 9, Jung, Carl Gustav, 5, 58–59, 61, 15–18, 23, 28–30, 31n12, 64, 66–69, 89, 106–111, 38–39, 49n5, 56, 86, 105–120, 113–115, 117, 119n3 184, 186–187, 189 Armies of the Night, The, 2, 10n3, Kahn, Sammy Abel, 78 16, 37, 50n10, 172, 181, 183 Kakutani, Michiko, 190n5 Barbary Shore, 37 Karma, 106, 104, 187 Cannibals and Christians, 24, 66 Kennedy, John F., 8, 40, 125–126 Castle in the Forest, 1, 3, 5–6, Kermode, Frank, 119 8, 59, 85–94, 96, 98–100, King, Karen L., 57–59, 65 139–154, 184, 193–194 Knight, Peter, 126, 130–131 Conversations with Norman Mailer, 15, 55, 107, 110, 113, Lawrence, D.H., 56, 62 118 Leeds, Barry, 49n5, 182 Deer Park, The, 35, 37, 164, 190 Legacy of Ashes (Weiner), 136 Executioner’s Song, The, 1, 4, 17, Leigh, Nigel, 16, 28 37–38, 40, 48, 186 Lennon, J. Michael, 10n2, 29, 59, Existential Errands, 45 68, 119n3, 182–184 Fight, The, 56, 193 Leonard, Elmore, 40, 42 Gospel According to the Son, The, Leonard, John, 48n3 3, 5–6, 55–69, 73–83, 86–87, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of 91–93, 100, 167, 174, 186 His Childhood (Freud), 106 Harlot’s Ghost, 3–4, 7, 38, 41, Levenda, Peter, 56, 140 48n3, 88, 123–136, 190n3, Lewis, C.S., 90 194 Libra (DeLillo), 8, 125, 129–133 Marilyn: A Biography, 10, 43 Liebenfels, Larz von, 142, 145, 147, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 148, 150, 152, 153 10n3, 16, 37 Lieberman, Chaim, 76–78 Naked and the Dead, The, 2, 21, 31n10, 35, 37, 45, 48, 83, MacLeish, Archibald, 171 159, 163–164, 172, 174, Mailer, Norman, reputation of, 181, 186 183–190, 190n1–3 , 37, 49n4, Mailer, Norman, works by: 81, 185, 187 “By Heaven Inspired,” 31n8 On God, 5, 57, 59, 68 202 INDEX

Mailer, Norman, works by — Modernism, 4, 9, 16–17, 28, 30, Continued 30n5, 146, 195 Oswald’s Tale, 3–4, 40 Monroe, Marilyn, 17, 126, Pieces and Pontifications, 16, 17 183, 189 Portrait of Picasso as a Young Morrison, Toni, 183 Man, 3, 56 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 124, Presidential Papers, The, 17, 135, 136n1, 137n7 66, 114 Muhammad Ali, 174, 189 Prisoner of Sex, The, 66–67 My Name is Asher Lev (Potok), 77 Spooky Art, The, 3, 36, 74, 140, 159, 168 National Book Award, 182–184, Time of Our Time, The, 3, 190n2 31n8, 186 Nazarene, The (Asch), 73 Tough Guys Don’t Dance, 3, 4, 7, Nenning, Guenther, 163 16–21, 23–30, 35–48, 49n4, New journalism, 1, 35–36, 38, 49n5, 50n9, 67, 80, 114, 48n1, 182–183 120n4 New Republic, The, 73, 167 White Negro, The, 23, 35, New York Times, 183, 190n5 81, 188 New Yorker, The, 123, 165, 177 Why Are We at War?, 3, 189 Norris, Frank, 46 Why Are We in Vietnam?, 2, 37, Norton Anthology of American 45, 50n10 Literature, 186, 189 Mailer, Norris, 160–162, 165–169, 173, 174–175, 178–179 O’Donnell, Patrick, 129 Malamud, Bernard, 78, 89 O’Neal, Ryan, 47 Maltby, Paul, 130 Occult, and National Socialism, Manichaeism, 2, 5–6, 55–56, 58, 139–154 63, 65–66, 85–86, 89, 91–92, Olster, Stacey, 106, 114 94, 142, 185, 190n3 Orientalism, 7, 30, 107, 186 Manso, Peter, 16, 24, 30n7 Orientalism (Said), 107 Manson, Charles, 22, 99 Out of My League (Plimpton), Marcus, Steven, 43, 49n8 172, 177 Marquand, Bryan, 30 Mary Magdalene, 64, 66 Pagels, Elaine, 5, 57 Masculinity, 19–25, 27, 65–67, 70, Palingenesis, 107, 113 105–106, 108, 114 Papadopolous, Renos K., 106, 107, Melville, Herman, 2, 7, 9, 115, 184, 108, 109 186, 189 Paradise Lost (Milton), 92 Menand, Louis, 7, 38, 43, 50n9, Paranoia, 22, 24, 86, 95, 125, 123–124 127–133, 135, 177 Merrill, Robert, 49n4, 49n5 Paris Review, The, 160, 162, 165, Miles, Jack, 75 172, 178 Miller, Henry, 17, 56, 185, 189 Passion of the Christ, 77 Millett, Kate, 19 The Pawnbroker (Wallant), 78 Milton, John, 82, 90, 92, 96, 140 Peretz, Martin, 167–168 Moby-Dick, 2, 7, 184 Perkins, Maxwell, 160, 170, 176 INDEX 203

Plato, 59–64, 89, 115, 120n6 Shackleton, Ernest, 164, 174 Polok, Chaim, 77 Shlain, Leonard, 67 Pornography, 18, 25–26, 43, 45, Siegel, Lee, 96, 98, 100 48, 48n3, 49n7, 49–50n8 Sontag, Susan, 23–24, 115 Postmodernism, see Modernism and Spear of Destiny (Ravenscroft), 149 Postmodernism Spenser, Scott, 123, 128 Powers, Richard Gid, 133 St. Augustine, 6, 69n2, 85–101 Provincetown, 3, 17–19, 21, 23–24, St. Paul, 179 30n3, 30n7, 39, 41–44, 49n4, Surette, Léon, 113 161–162, 167–168, 173, 182 Psyche and Symbol (Jung), 63, 66, Tabbi, Joseph, 31n11 69, 69n7, 117 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 26 Theosophy, 141–142, 149 Queer, 42 Thompson, Hunter S., 10n3, 35, Quinn, Terry, 161–162, 179 48n1 Thule Society, 142–143, 148, 150 Ravenscroft, Trevor, 149–150 Tolkien, J.R.R., 90 Read, Herbert, 108 Totalitarianism, 29, 31 Reagan, Ronald, see Reaganism Treitel, Corinna, 142–145, 149 Reaganism, 17, 21–22, 26 Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 139 Repressed, return of, 3–4, 9, 16, Twain, Mark, 171 18, 25, 29 Robertson, K.G., 136 Unconscious, 6, 18, 55, 58–60, Rosenbaum, Ron, 8, 139, 153–154 64–65, 67, 69n3, 87–88, Rosenheim, Andrew, 181 105, 106–109, 111–114, Roth, Henry, 78 117–118, 185 Roth, Philip, 78, 80, 195 Unholy Alliance (Levenda), 140

De Sade, Marquis Donatien A. F., Vidal, Gore, 183 116 Violence, 15, 19, 22, 26–27, 29, Said, Edward, 107, 118 106, 110, 114–116, 183, 188 Salinger, J.D., 78 Sanchez, Thomas, 49n6 Wallant, Edward Lewis, 78 Sandlund, Debra, 47 Webb, James, 141, 147–148 Satan, 2, 9, 55–60, 63–64, 69, Weiner, Tim, 136 79–82, 86–88, 90–94, Weiss, Allen S., 117 96–101, 119n3, 139–140, 154, Whalen-Bridge, John, 30n2, 48n2, 165, 184–186 106, 117, 119, 119n2 Saul, John Ralston, 134 Willman, Skip, 152 Save Me the Waltz (Zelda Wolfe, Tom, 10n3, 35–36, 48n1 Fitzgerald), 178 Wolin, Sheldon, 137 Savram, David, 4, 20, 22, 26 Wood, James, 73 Schwaller de Lubicz, R. A., 116, 120n6 Yeats, William Butler, 107, 110–111 Sense of an Ending, The (Kermode), 119 Zelda (Milford), 178