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 Norman Mailer 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, Vladimir Nabokov, E.L. Doctorow, Gore Vidal, Philip Roth, 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 Library of America, 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 National Book Award 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 the New York Times 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