Books
Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature. Etruscan Press: Wilkes-Barre, PA, 2022.
Edited Books
Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal, 1954-55 by Norman Mailer. Editor (with Gerald R. Lucas and Susan Mailer). NY: Arcade Books, 2024. Winner of the Robert F. Lucid Award for Mailer Studies.
A Mysterious Country: The Grace and Fragility of American Democracy. Writings by Norman Mailer. Editor (with John Buffalo Mailer). NY: Arcade Books, 2023.
“Five Best Books on Sparring Partners,” Wall Street Journal, April 8-9, 2023. Books chosen: The Red and the Black by Stendhal (1830); Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry (2019); Words in Air: Correspondence of Elizabth Bishop and Robert Lowell, edited by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton (2008); Butterfield 8 by John O’Hara (1935); Parisian Lives: Simon de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett by Deirdre Bair (2019).
The Naked and the Dead and Selected Letters, 1945-46. Editor. NY: Library of America, 2023.
“Memorial: Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer’s Opposite,” Chicago Tribune, December 29, 2021, Section 1, p.11.
Selected Book Chapters, Interviews, and Essays
Interview with Rachel Weaver, author of Dizzy: A Memoir (Morgantown, WV, West Virginia University Press, 2026). Hippocampus On-line Magazine, March 3, 2026.
“Saint and Psychopath.” Excerpt from Norman Mailer’s unpublished marijuana journal from Lipton’s: A Marijuana Journal, 1954-55, edited by J. Michael Lennon, G.R. Lucas, and Susan Mailer (NY: Arcade Books, 2024). TLS, August 19, 2024
“The Archivist’s Apprentice,” Lifewriting Annual: Biographical and Autobiographical Studies, 6 (2021). Memoir on assembling Mailer’s Archive. Rpt. Mailer’s Last Days (2022).
“JFK and Political Heroism,” Chapter in Norman Mailer in Context, edited by Maggie McKinley (Cambridge University Press, 2021), 138-47.
“Interview with Susan Mailer, author of In Another Place: My Life With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer.” Hippocampus On-line Magazine, October 1, 2019.
Reviews
Review of Twice-Born. Biography of Justin Kaplan by Hester Kaplan (NY: Catapult Press, 2025). Provincetown Arts, June 2026.
Review of Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer by David Denby (NY: Henry Holt, 2025). Hippocampus on-line Magazine, May 6, 2025.
“Middleman of American Letters.” Review of The Outsider. Biography of Malcolm Cowley by Gerald Howard (NY: Penguin Press, 2025). TLS, March 6, 2026, 17.
“Memorial: John T. ‘Ike’ Williams,” Provincetown Arts, 2025, 164-65.
“This Bastard Form,” Review of The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-rousers and Outsiders Concocted Creative Nonfiction,” by Lee Gutkind (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024), TLS (March 15, 2024), 5.