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- 1956 Quickly (11 January 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (18 January 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (25 January 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (1 February 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (8 February 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (29 February 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (7 March 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (14 March 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (21 March 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (28 March 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (4 April 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (25 April 1956)
- 1956 Quickly (2 May 1956)
- 1957 The White Negro
- 1961 The Blacks
- 1961 Foreword to Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
- 1963 Letter to Sergio Gutiérrez-Olivos
- 1963 Letter to Alan Earney (15 October 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Andre Deutsch (15 October 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Reed Whittemore
- 1963 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (16 October 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Willie Morris
- 1963 Letter to Alan Earney (4 November 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Andre Deutsch (4 November 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Adeline Lubell Naiman
- 1963 Letter to Francis Irby Gwaltney (9 November 1963)
- 1963 Letter to David Susskind
- 1963 Letter to Edmund Skellings
- 1963 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (26 November 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Mary Jane Shoultz
- 1963 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (15 December 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Mickey Knox
- 1963 Letter to Francis Irby Gwaltney (20 December 1963)
- 1963 Letter to Rita Halle Kleeman
- 1964 Letter to Don Carpenter (15 January 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Vance Bourjaily
- 1964 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (17 January 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Harvey Breit (11 February 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Charles Schultz (17 February 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Mickey Knox (17 February 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (19 February 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Vahan Gregory (16 March 1964)
- 1964 Letter to George Lea (17 March 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Martin Peretz (17 March 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Andre Deutsch (16 April 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Louis and Moos Mailer (17 April 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Mickey Knox (19 April 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Francis Irby Gwaltney (15 May 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Don Carpenter (1 June 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Mickey Knox (2 June 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Mrs. Jose Casanova (2 June 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Diana Athill (5 July 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Pete Hamill (6 July 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (7 July 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Diana Athill (21 August 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Robert F. Lucid (29 September 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Don Carpenter (5 October 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Andre Deutsch (4 November 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Esther Whitby (15 December 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Arnold Kemp (18 December 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Bill McLaughlin (18 December 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Mickey Knox (18 December 1964)
- 1964 Letter to Virginia Mangrum (21 December 1964)
- 1965 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi (27 January 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Diana Athill (25 February 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Richard Kluger (22 March 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Alan Earney (23 March 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Diana Athill (23 March 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Diana Trilling (25 March 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Don Carpenter (25 March 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Jason Epstein (25 March 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Diana Trilling (6 April 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Donald Kaufmann (20 April 1965)
- 1965 Letter to John W. Aldridge (23 April 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Moos Mailer (23 April 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Diana Trilling (8 June 1965)
- 1965 Letter to John W. Aldridge (8 June 1965)
- 1965 Letter to John William Corrington (8 June 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Roger Shattuck (8 June 1965)
- 1965 Letter to John A. Meixner (12 June 1965)
- 1965 Norman Mailer on LBJ
- 1965 Letter to Diana Trilling (14 July 1965)
- 1965 The Harbors of the Moon
- 1965 Letter to John W. Aldridge (17 August 1965)
- 1965 Letter to Irving J. Weiss (26 August 1965)
- 1966 Letter to Lionel Abel (28 February 1966)
- 1966 Letter to Mann Rubin (24 March 1966)
- 1966 Letter to Lonnie L. Wells (16 April 1966)
- 1966 Letter to Nancy Weber (24 September 1966)
- 1966 Letter to Susan Abrams (24 September 1966)
- 1966 Letter to Yale M. Udoff (24 September 1966)
- 1966 Letter to Louis and Moos Mailer (25 September 1966)
- 1966 Letter to Sanford Sternlicht (26 September 1966)
- 1967 Mr. Mailer Interviews Himself
- 1967 Foreword to The Beard, by Michael McClure
- 1968 Beyond the Law
- 1968 Letter to the Editor (Newsweek, 23 December 1968)
- 1969 Foreword to The End of Obscenity, by Charles Rembar
- 1969 The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer
- 1969 Letter to Whit Burnett (1969)
- 1970 Statement for Managing Mailer
- 1971 Preface to ...Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story
- 1973 A Mystery (from The Martian Invasion)
- 1974 Preface to The Joker (My Friend, Jean Malaquais)
- 1975 Preface to Fiction Writer's Handbook
- 1975 Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer
- 1976 Preface to The Presidential Papers
- 1976 Foreword to St. Patrick's Day with Mayor Daley
- 1976 Preface to Papa: A Personal Memoir
- 1977 Norman Mailer and the Cutting Edge of Style
- 1979 Mailer on the '70s - Decade of 'Image, Skin Flicks and Porn'
- 1980 Introduction to Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture
- 1981 Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast
- 1982 Foreword to Dear Muffo
- 1983 Mailer Goes Egyptian
- 1983 Twelfth Round: An Interview with Norman Mailer
- 1983 Foreword to Oswald's Game
- 1985 Introduction to After the Lost Generation
- 1988 Jackson Is a Friend of Life's Victims
- 1989 Introduction to Messages: New and Selected Poems, 1969–1989
- 1992 Preface to The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories
- 1992 Preface to A Driving Passion
- 1999 Milosevic and Clinton
- 2000 [Statement about Norris Church and their marriage]
- 2000 Preface to Norman Mailer: Works and Days
- 2001 Foreword to Enduring Justice: Photographs
- 2002 For Whom the Will Toils
- 2004 Preface to The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita
- 2004 Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969
- 2005 Sartre's God Problem
- 2005 God's Chosen Envoy for America
- 2006 The March of Progress
- 2007 'The Naked and the Dead': Excerpt from unpublished 1942 play
- 2007 'A Series of Tragicomedies': Mailer's Letters on The Deer Park
- 2008 In the Ring: Grappling with the Twentieth Century
- 2008 Introduction to Blue Nights: Photographs
- 2008 The Bodily Function Blues
- 2008 Acceptance Speech for the [2007] National Book Foundation Award
- 2008 What's Wrong with America: Five Proposals
- 2012 The Blood of the Blunt
- 2013 Love-Buds
- 2014 An Excerpt from Mailer's Last Interview
- 2014 La Petite Bourgeoise
- 2015 Existentialism, Violent Liberation, and Racialized Masculinities: Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” and An American Dream
- 2015 The Thalian Adventure
- 2016 The Collision
- 2023 Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100
- 2023 Allen Ahearn, remembrance
- 2023 Norman and the Mad Grad Student
- 2023 How Norris Got a New Kitchen
- 2023 The Seminar Table at Trinity University
- 2023 Let's Do the Twist
- 2023 Norman: "My Friend for Life"
- 2023 Jackson R. Bryer, remembrance
- 2023 James Campbell, remembrance
- 2023 Christina Mailer-Nastasi, remembrance
- 2023 Superman
- 2023 Nobody Could Sleep
- 2023 Donna Lennon, remembrance
- 2023 Salvatore J. Fallica, remembrance
- 2023 The Norman Mailer Writers Colony – July 2010
- 2023 Kaylie Jones, remembrance
- 2023 Joseph Lennon, remembrance
- 2023 Breakfast with Norman
- 2023 Meeting Mailer
- 2023 Breathing Lessons
- 2023 Elisabeth Malaquais, remembrance
- 2023 Colum McCann, remembrance
- 2023 An Epic Procedure
- 2023 Jay McInerney, remembrance
- 2023 Maggie McKinley, remembrance
- 2023 Memories of Norman Mailer
- 2023 Maileriana
- 2023 Carl Rollyson, remembrance
- 2023 Lawrence Schiller, remembrance
- 2023 Kevin M. Schultz, remembrance
- 2023 A Nobody Becomes a Somebody
- 2023 Stephen Lennon, remembrance
- 2023 Mr. Cappuccino
- 2023 Remembering Norman
- 2023 Barbara Wasserman, remembrance
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- 1942 Right Shoe on Left Foot in print elsewhere
- 1948 War & No Peace rights pending
- 1948 Wonder Boy Novelist rights pending
- 1948 The Naked Are Fanatics and the Dead Don't Care rights pending
- 1948 Rugged Times rights pending
- 1961 An Interview with Norman Mailer rights pending
- 1961 Letter to Eiichi Yamanishi rights pending
- 1961 The Ordeal of Norman Mailer rights pending
- 1962 Norman Mailer Speaks His Mind rights pending
- 1962 An Impolite Interview with Norman Mailer rights pending
- 1965 An American Dream: Reception and Reviews, 1965 rights pending
- 1965 An American Dream: Reception and Reviews, 1965 rights pending
- 1965 PPA Press Conference rights pending
- 1965 An American Dream: Reception and Reviews, 1965 rights pending
- 1965 An American Dream: Reception and Reviews, 1965 rights pending
- 1967 Norman Mailer's Cherry Pie rights pending
- 1967 A Disturbance of the Peace rights pending
- 1967 At the 'Filth Barrier' with Norman Mailer rights pending
- 1967 Review of Why Are We in Vietnam? rights pending
- 1967 Why We Are Interviewing Norman Mailer rights pending
- 1967 A Shaky Start rights pending
- 1969 The Mailer–Breslin Mayoral Campaign (1969) rights pending
- 1969 The Mailer–Breslin Mayoral Campaign (1969) rights pending
- 1969 I Run to Win rights pending
- 1970 Mailer, in London, Trades Jabs with Audience over New Film rights pending
- 1971 The Prisoner of Sex in print elsewhere
- 1973 The Fifth Estate Birthday Party rights pending
- 1973 A Transit to Narcissus in print elsewhere
- 1979 Life with Mailer rights pending
- 1979 Norman Mailer: The Champ of American Letters... (High Times) rights pending
- 1987 Mailer by the Bay rights pending
- 1987 Novelist Mailer Turns His Latest Book into a Movie rights pending
- 1987 Why Norman Mailer Won't Dance rights pending
- 1991 Stormin' Norman rights pending
- 1996 Mailer and Me rights pending
- 1997 Norman Mailer on Literary Instincts and Ambitions rights pending
- 1997 Why Mailer Decided to Play Jesus rights pending
- 1997 Courage in Profiles: Attacked by Critics for His Hubris, Norman Mailer Nonetheless Tackles the Tough Topics rights pending
- 1997 Mailer Retells the Greatest Story Ever rights pending
- 1997 And the Word Was with Norman rights pending
- 1998 Life and Letters: The Contender rights pending
- 1998 The Joy of Bricks rights pending
- 1998 After Half a Century, Still Writing, Still Questing rights pending
- 1998 Fine Distinctions: Norman Mailer on Fiction, Non-Fiction and the Differences between Them rights pending
- 1998 In Prose or in Person, Still the Tough Guy rights pending
- 1998 Making Books: 'Private Ryan' Reviews a Genre rights pending
- 1998 Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Barney Rosset: Their Struggles Against Censorship Recalled rights pending
- 1999 Interview with Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2000 At 77, Mailer gives up on the Sexual Revolution rights pending
- 2001 Ruin More Beautiful than the Building rights pending
- 2002 The Very Literate Are Different: Zelda, Scott and Ernest on Stage rights pending
- 2002 Machismo Isn't that Easy to Wear rights pending
- 2002 11 September was 'larger than the atom bomb' rights pending
- 2003 Old Brawler Won't Grapple with History: Norman Mailer Ruminates on Literature and Life rights pending
- 2003 Norman's Still in a Conquering Mood at 80 rights pending
- 2003 Mailer Was the Rage rights pending
- 2003 'Yes, I Misbehaved Sometimes' rights pending
- 2003 To Mailer, a Good Soldier Puts War on Paper rights pending
- 2003 Our Religion Is Called America rights pending
- 2003 A 'Long Day's Journey' with the Mailers rights pending
- 2003 Bush and Terror: an Exchange rights pending
- 2004 Norman Mailer on the Media and the Message rights pending
- 2004 Are You Open-Minded Enough for Norman Mailer on Iraq? rights pending
- 2004 Interview: Norman Mailer (Academy of Achievement) rights pending
- 2004 Father to Son: What I've Learned about Rage rights pending
- 2004 Norman Mailer: Why I Am Protesting the Presidency rights pending
- 2004 Norman Mailer: Poetic Lion in Winter rights pending
- 2004 The Lion on Canes rights pending
- 2004 Norman Mailer: On Pot rights pending
- 2005 Mailer's Miscellany rights pending
- 2005 Don't be a Blogger Manqué, Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2005 You've Got Mailer rights pending
- 2006 US Writer Norman Mailer Wins Top France Prize rights pending
- 2006 Relative Values: Norman Mailer and His Son John rights pending
- 2007 Mailer Plays Devil's Advocate rights pending
- 2007 In Conversation… with Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2007 Mailer on Bush, Obama & Writing rights pending
- 2007 Stormin' Norman Defends his 'Castle' rights pending
- 2007 Norman Mailer Tackles Hitler's Youth rights pending
- 2007 Mailer's Young Hitler Novel Angers Germans rights pending
- 2007 The Last Man Standing rights pending
- 2007 The Proust Questionnaire: Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2007 Writing with the Devil rights pending
- 2007 Author! Author! The Devil and Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2007 Author: Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2007 Forty Years of Rolling Stone: Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2007 Writers Take Out the Knives rights pending
- 2007 The Road from Danzig rights pending
- 2007 Mailer Gets Hammered rights pending
- 2007 The Rise of Mailerism rights pending
- 2007 The Art of Fiction, No. 193, Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2008 Author, Auteur: A Conversation with Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2011 Norman Mailer's Eclectic Life, as Seen Through His Last Home rights pending
- 2012 Mailer is Back rights pending
- 2013 The Writing on the Wall rights pending
- 2013 Norman Mailer Speaks to America From Beyond the Grave rights pending
- 2015 The Writer's Daughter rights pending
- 2016 People Who Look Alike Are Alike rights pending
- 2016 Top Ten Things I Learned from Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2018 The Naked and the Read: Inside the Library of Norman Mailer rights pending
- 2018 Mr. Mailer Goes to Washington: The Armies of the Night Fifty Years On rights pending
- 2021 Just the fact(oid)s, please rights pending
- 2021 Looking for Joan Didion: Norman Mailer's Opposite rights pending
- 2022 Saint and Psychopath rights pending
- 2024 We Must All Be Left Conservatives Now rights pending
- 2024 How Norman Mailer Changed the Face of Biography rights pending
- 2025 Fighting for One's Fiction: How Norman Mailer Taught Me to Defend My Plots rights pending
- 2025 Review of Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer rights pending
- 2025 The Son Also Rises: John Buffalo Mailer on Defending Cinema in the Age of Slop rights pending
- 2025 Bringing the Fun Back to Fun City: Mamdani, Mailer and Breslin rights pending
- 2026 Revisiting Norman Mailer's 'White Negro' Essay rights pending
- 2026 Here's Piety in Your Eye rights pending
- 2026 Sex Wars, What Are They Good For? rights pending