A thin bibliographic year dominated by the publication and reception of Barbary Shore (51.1, 24 May). Four other entries record peripheral publications: the Harvey Breit NYT interview (51.2), Mailer’s first appearance in Esquire (51.3a, letter on Ezra Pound), a Humanist symposium contribution (51.3), and a Cold War essay in the Wingate anthology The Western Defences (51.4) that will be substantially revised into his first Dissent piece three years later. A biographical entry in Warfel’s reference volume (51.5) rounds out the year.
Bibliography 1951
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- interview
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- article
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| Legacy | Author(s) | Title | Venue | Date | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51.1 | Mailer, Norman | Barbary Shore | Rinehart | 1951-05-24 | by |
| — | Gissen, Max | Last of the Leftists? on Barbary Shore | Time | 1951-05-28 | about |
| 51.2 | Breit, Harvey | Talk with Norman Mailer | New York Times Book Review | 1951-06-03 | interview |
| — | West, Anthony | East Meets West, Author Meets Allegory on Barbary Shore | New Yorker | 1951-06-09 | about |
| — | Howe, Irving | Some Political Novels on Barbary Shore | Nation | 1951-06-16 | about |
| — | Swados, Harvey | Fiction Parade on Barbary Shore | New Republic | 1951-06-18 | about |
| — | Rolo, Charles | A House in Brooklyn on Barbary Shore | Atlantic | 1951-06 | about |
| 51.3 | Mailer, Norman | Authors and Humanism | Humanist | 1951-10 | by |
| 51.3a | Mailer, Norman | Letter to the Editor [on Ezra Pound] | Esquire | 1951-11 | by |
| 51.4 | Mailer, Norman | The Defence of the Compass | The Western Defences | 1951 | by |
| 51.5 | Warfel, Harry R.; Mailer, Norman (statement) | Norman Mailer | American Novelists of Today | 1951 | article |