Bibliography 1964

The An American Dream serialization year — Mailer publishes the novel in eight monthly installments in Esquire (64.2–64.9, January–August 1964) and undertakes two substantial revisions for the Dial Press book edition (early-summer Provincetown revision; 20 December galley revision). Also: Steven Marcus’s omnibus Paris Review “Art of Fiction XXXII” interview (64.1) — one of Mailer’s most important Q&As, conducted 6 July 1963; the Mailer–Scully architecture debate trio (64.10, 64.16, 64.17); “In the Red Light” Republican-Convention essay (64.20); “The Executioner’s Song” Fuck You magazine poem (64.18) that gives Mailer two later book titles; and Mailer’s first son, Michael Burks Mailer, born 17 March to Beverly Bentley. Counts: 20 by, 3 interview, 1 article, 0 about in the Lennon register — plus 2 post-Lennon by rows for the January 1964 letters in Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream (04.7), added in the 2026 letter-by-letter ingest.