"The Veiled Fist of a Master Executioner". One of the best comic fantasy struggles with a larger-than-life Mailer. The Oranging of America and Other Stories. Concrete reading of Mailer’s “rhetoric of self-dramatization,” with deft discussion of Mailer’s “Left-conservatism.” Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction. The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America. Satirical portrait of Mailer (Norman Manlifellow) and James Baldwin (Giovanni Johnson) and other New York literary figures. "New York: Rapietta Greensponge, Girl Counselor Comes to My Aid". In his introduction Mailer says, “Aldridge was the nearest guideline to absolute truth that the working novelist had in my young days.” See 85.14. Reprint, with an introduction by Norman Mailer. After the Lost Generation: A Study of the Writers of Two Wars. Contains Aldridge’s reviews of Genius and Lust ( 76.12), The Long Patrol ( 71.29), and Harlot’s Ghost ( 91.26). Includes two essays on Mailer’s cosmology, a long bibliography and Adams’s useful introduction. Fourteen essays and reviews and one interview examining Mailer’s protean activities. Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up. Good discussion of themes and techniques, especially early narrators includes description of extra-literary activities. Existential Battles: The Growth of Norman Mailer.
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