Bibliography
By Jack Henry Abbott:
Books:
In the Belly of the Beast, Random House, 1981
My Return, Prometheus, 1987
On Jack Henry Abbott (and Norman Mailer):
Books:
Jack and Norman by Jerome Loving, St. Martin’s Press, 2017
Articles:
Victim vs. ‘Star’: Convict-Turned-Author Gest More Sympathy Than Talented Actor He’s Accused of Killing, Miguel Perez, Daily News, July 25, 1981
A Child of the State: In the Belly of the Beast, Terrence Des Pres, New York Times Book Review, July 19, 1981
Freedom for Convict-Author: Complex and Conflicting Tale, M.A. Farber, New York Times, August 17, 1981
The Literary Life of Crime, Naomi Munson and James Atlas, The New Republic, September 9, 1981
The Brief and Violent Freedom of Jack Abbott, Robert Sam Anson, Life, November 1981
The Poetic License to Kill, Lance Morrow, Time Magazine, Feb 1982, Vol. 119, issue 5, p.90
Il Mulino Reviews, Dining Out Guide: Casual Italian, New York Times, May 2, 1986
Restaurants: Greek food without the cliche elements, Italian food that starts before the menu arrives, Bryan Miller, New York Times, May 27, 1988
A New Book Explores the Fatal Friendship Between Jack Abbott and Norman Mailer, Allen Barra, The Village Voice, May 9, 2017
Crime and Publishing: The Story of Jack Abbott and Norman Mailer, Rachel Monroe, Los Angeles Review of Books, July 23, 2017
By Norman Mailer:
Books:
The Naked and the Dead, Rinehart, 1948
Barbary Shore, Rinehart, 1951
The Deer Park, Putnam’s, 1955
The White Negro, San Francisco City Lights, 1957
Advertisements for Myself, Putnam, 1959
Death for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), Putnam, 1962
An American Dream, Dial, 1965
Why Are We in Vietnam, Putnam, 1967
The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer, Dell, 1967
The Armies of the Night, New American Library, 1968
Miami and the Siege of Chicago, New American Library, 1968
Of a Fire on the Moon, Little, Brown, 1971
The Prisoner of Sex, Little, Brown, 1971
The Fights, Little, Brown and Company, 1975
A Transit to Narcissus, Howard Fertig, 1978
The Executioner’s Song, Little, Brown and Company, 1979
Ancient Evenings, Simon and Schuster, 1980
Tough Guys Don’t Dance, Random House, 1984
Harlot’s Ghost, Random House, 1991
The Gospel According to the Son, Random House, 1997
The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing, Random House, 2003
The Castle in the Forest, Random House, 2007
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays, Penguin, 2014
On Norman Mailer:
Books:
Managing Mailer, Joe Flaherty, Coward, McCann, 1970
The Last Party, Adele Morales Mailer, Barricade Books, 1997
Mailer: His Life and Times, Peter Manso, Washington Square Press, 2008
A Ticket to the Circus, Norris Church Mailer, Random House, 2011
Loving Mailer, Carole Mallory, 2012
Norman Mailer: A Double Life, J. Michael Lennon, Simon and Schuster, 2013
Articles:
Norman Mailer Arrested in Stabbing of Wife at a Party, The New York Times, November 22, 1960
Americana: Of Time and the Rebel, Time, December 5, 1960
Norman Mailer Runs for Mayor, Joe Flaherty, The Village Voice, April 24, 1969
My Mailer Problem, Germaine Greer, Esquire, May 1, 1971
Norman Mailer Writes a Dithyramb, Anatole Broyard, The New York Times, May 27, 1971
Mailer Finds Book Is No Advertisement to Himself, Eric Pace, October 18, 1972
Mailer Goes Egyptian, Marie Brenner, New York Magazine, March 28, 1983
Norman Mailer Stabs His Wife, Peter Kobel, Entertainment Weekly, November 15, 1991
Tough Guys Do Dance, The Irish Times, September 27, 1997
“Machismo Isn’t That Easy to Wear”, Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, February 5, 2002
The Last Man Standing, Tom Junod, Esquire, January, 2007
Mailer’s Young Hitler Novel Angers Germans, Jess Smee, The Guardian, January 29, 2007
Riding the Whirlwind: Mailer Interview, Michael Chaiken, Film Comment, July-August, 2007
Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Dies at 84, Charles McGrath, The New York Times, November 10, 2007
Norman Mailer Obituary, James Campbell, The Guardian, November 12, 2007
Mailer’s Talent Was Never as Big as His Ego, Jay Parini, The Guardian, November 12, 2007
Farewell to Norman Mailer, a sexist, homophobic reactionary, Joan Smith, The Guardian, November 13, 2007
In This Corner, Norman Mailer, Dick Cavett, The New York Times, November 14, 2007
The Woman in the Shadow, John Freeman Gill, The New York Times, November 18, 2007
1962 International Writers’ Conference, Jed Birmingham, Reality Studio, January 21, 2008
Mailer’s Movie Madness, Patricia Bosworth, Vanity Fair, February 12, 2008
The Mailer Files, Thessaly LaForce, The New Yorker, November 11, 2008
It took a Village, Louis Menand, The New Yorker, December 28, 2008
William Burroughs and Norman Mailer, Jed Birmingham, Reality Studiom, 2009
Being Norman Mailer’s Wife, Alex Witchel, The Sunday Times, April 10, 2010
Advertisements for Norman Mailer, Jonathan Lethem, LA Review of Books, October 3, 2011
Norman Mailer’s True Fiction, Richard Brody, The New Yorker, October 4, 2011
Norman Mailer Runs for Mayor, Stabs Wife, Evan Hughes, NY Magazine, March 30, 2012
Norman Mailer, Auteur, Christine Smallwood, The New Yorker, September 25, 2012
Stabbing Your Wife as an Existential Experiment, Thomas McGrath, June 1, 2013
The Norman Invasion, Louis Menand, The New Yorker, October 14, 2013
The Novel that Norman Mailer Didn’t Write, Richard Brody, The New Yorker, October 16, 2013
Fight Club: Two Rounds With Norman Mailer, Nate Freeman, Observer, October 22, 2013
Norman Mailer at the Movies, Richard Brody The New Yorker, October 30, 2013
Norman Mailer: Writer of a Bygone Era, Michael Wolff, The Guardian, September 30, 2013
The Strange Powers of Norman Mailer, Edward Mendelson, The New York Review,
November 21, 2013
Norman Mailer: A Double Life, by J. Michael Lennon – review, Philip French, The Guardian,
December 2, 2013
The Gospel According to Norman, Christian Lorentzen, Book Forum, Dec/Jan 2014
Norman Mailer’s Of A Fire on the Moon: a Giant Leap for Reportage, Geoff Dyer, The Guardian, May 24, 2014
When Writers Attack, Jonathan Gottschall, Lit Hub, April 23, 2015
Mailer vs. The Liberals, Taki Theodoracopulos, The American Conservative, June 8, 2015
Where is the Modern-Day Mailer?, Tim Lemire, Project Mailer, July 29, 2015
Adele Morales, Artist Who Married Norman Mailer, Dies at 90, William Grimes, The New York Times, 24 November, 2015
The Complications on Norman Mailer, Philip Sipiora and J. Michael Lennon,
The Mailer Review, Vol. 7, 2017
Norman Mailer’s Snarling Encounter With Feminism, Restaged in Trump’s America, Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, February 23, 2017
How Norman Mailer Blurred the Line Between the Literary and the Lurid, Ashley Rindsberg,
Los Angeles Review of Books, March 4, 2017
Norman Mailer v. Germaine Greer, Travis Diehl, The Guardian, March 31, 2017
Burroughs’ Statements at the 1962 International Writers’ Conference, Reality Studio,
February 21, 2018
Why Norman Mailer Still Matters in 2018, Amy Brady, The Village Voice, March 22, 2018
Should we still read Norman Mailer?, Chrir Barsanti, The Millions, May 9, 2018
Confessions of a Left-Conservative: Norman Mailer in the Library of America, Jonathan Kirshner, LA Review of Books, September 19, 2018
F-Bombs and Insults: Norman Mailer’s Epic Run for Mayor of New York in 1969, Paul Schwartzman, The Washington Post, June 15, 2019
Mailer and Violence, Ted Burke, January 25, 2020
Blood in the Morning: the Turbulent Relationship of Norman Mailer and Adele Morales, M.J. Moore, Criminal Element, February 27, 2020
Town Bloody Hall – Rip-Roaring Feminist Cross Fire, Thomas Doherty, The Arts Fuse,
October 18, 2020
Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer, The Allen Ginsberg Foundation, January 31, 2021
Films:
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up?, Dock Fontaine, 1968
Wild 90, Norman Mailer, 1968
Beyond the Law, Norman Mailer, 1968
Maidstone, Norman Mailer, 1970
Town Bloody Hall, Chrish Hegedua and D.A. Pennebaker, 1979
Tough Guys Don’t Dance, Norman Mailer, 1987
Norman Mailer: The American, Joseph Mantegna, 201
Multimedia:
Norman Mailer – What is a Hipster?, origin unknown, year unknown
Norman Mailer’s USA, Fem Amerikanare, Swedish Television, 1966
The Summer Way with Marshall McLuhan, conversation with Norman Mailer, CBC, 1968
Firing Line with William F. Buckley, interview with Norman Mailer, Episode 102, May 28, 1968
Norman Mailer Mayoral Campaign, New York, Kino Library, 1969
Desert Island Discs, with Norman Mailer, BBC Radio 4, December 15, 1979
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009mwr2
The Dick Cavett Show, with Janet Flanner, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal, December 1, 1971
Interview with Adele Morales, Jason Howard, Famous X2, 1997
“Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant”, Gilmore Girls, Season 5 Episode 6, October 26, 2004
Mailer reads The Naked and The Dead in 1983, Norman Mailer Society Podcast by Justin Bozung, Episode 26, 15 April, 2016 – https://archive.org/details/nms-podcast-26
The exhaustive archives of Project Mailer have been an invaluable source of information and material: https://projectmailer.net/pm/Main_Page
By Jerzy Kosinski (and a number of uncredited ghost writers):
Books:
The Painted Bird, Houghton Mifflin, 1965
Steps, Random House, 1968
Being There, Harcourt Brace, 1970
The Devil Tree, Harcourt Brace, 1973
Cockpit, Houghton Mifflin, 1975
Blind Date, Houghton Mifflin, 1977
Passion Play, St. Martin’s Press, 1979
Pinball, Bantam, 1982
The Hermit of 69th Street, Seaver Books, 1988
Conversations With Jerzy Kosinski, University of Mississippi, 1993
Passing By: Selected Essays, 1962-1991, Grove, 2007
Oral Pleasure, Kosinski as Storyteller, Grove, 2012
On Jerzy Kosinski:
Books:
In Touch: The letters of Paul Bowles, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993
Letter to James Leo Hurley, April 8th 1966, mentions Lila Van Saher
Jerzy Kosinski: a Biography, James Park Sloan, Penguin, 1996
Karmic Traces, Genuine Fakes, Eliot Weinberger, New Directions, 2000
Articles:
Wife Sues Dr. Van Saher: Novelist Says World Bar Head Threw Dictionary at Her, New York Times, September 26, 1949
Lilla Alexander Van Saher, Writer and Former Actress, Obituary, New York Times, July 19, 1968
Jerzy Kosinski, The Art of Fiction No. 46, George Plimpton and Rocco Landesman, The Paris Review, Summer 1972
An Interview with Jerzy Kosinski, Roger Copeland, New York Art Journal, Vol. 21, 1980
Being Jerzy Kosinski, Barbara Gelb, New York Times Magazine, February 21, 1982
Jerzy Kosinski’s Tainted Words, Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Freemont, The Village Voice, June 22, 1982
17 Years of Ideological Attack on a Cultural Target, ,John Corry, The New York Times,
November 7, 1982
The Kosinski Conundrum, Stephen Schiff, Vanity Fair, June 1988
The Most Considerate of Men, John Corry, American Spectator, July 1991
Painted Words, Russ W. Baker, The Village Voice, March 15, 1994
Interview with Mrs. Katherina Von Fraunhofer-Kosinski, with Barbar Tepa Lupack, The Polish Review, Vol. 49, No. 1, 2004
Will the Real Jerzy Kosinski Please Stand Up?, Michael P. Kardos, The Missouri Review, February 10, 2005
The Rise and Fall of Jerzy Kosinski, Phillip Routh, Arts and Opinions, November 6, 2007.
The Tainted Bird, Sam Kerbel, Tablet Magazine, December 4, 2012
Jerzy Kosinski’s Traumas, Real and Invented, Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, March 20, 2017
Designing for Jerzy Kosinski: The Embellished Bird, Roy R. Behrens, http://www.bobolinkbooks.com/BALLAST/jk.html
Multimedia:
Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski, Agniesszka Piotrowska, BBC 1995
Jerzy Kosinski Lecture, The John Adams Institute, September 27, 1990
The Painted Boy, Norman Finkelstein, 1995
Late Night with David Letterman, with Jerzy Kosinsi, May 25, 1982
Late Night with David Letterman, with Jerzy Kosinski, April 4, 1984
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, with Jerzy Kosinski, January 10, 1980