{{Short description|Academic journal}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox journal | title = The Mailer Review | cover = File:Mailer Review, Volume 1.jpg | editor = Phillip Sipiora | discipline = Literature | abbreviation = Mail. Rev. | publisher = The Norman Mailer Society; the University of South Florida English Department | country = United States | frequency = Annually | history = 2007-present | openaccess = yes | impact = | impact-year = | website = http://mailerreview.org/ | link1 = | link1-name = | link2 = | link2-name = | RSS = | atom = | JSTOR = | OCLC = 86175502 | LCCN = | CODEN = | ISSN = 1936-4687 | eISSN = }}
'''''The Mailer Review''''' is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2007 by the Norman Mailer Society and edited at the University of South Florida's Department of English. The purpose of the journal is to maintain the legacy of eponym Norman Mailer. The ''Review'' publishes original scholarship, book reviews, fiction, poetry, tributes, bibliographies, and interviews. Contributors have included Norman Mailer, Don DeLillo, William Kennedy, J. Michael Lennon, Christopher Hitchens, and Lawrence Schiller.
The founder and editor is Phillip Sipiora of USF. The journal is published annually in the fall.
== History == During the fourth annual conference in Provincetown (October 12–14, 2006), the membership voted to establish the brainchild of Phillip Sipiora, ''The Mailer Review'', co-sponsored by the University of South Florida and edited by Sipiora and co-edited by Gerald Lucas and Michael L. Shuman.<ref>{{cite news |last=Walker |first=Kevin |date=February 12, 2007 |title=Bull's-Eye |work=The Tampa Tribune |location=Bay Life, p. 1, 6–7 |quote=USF scores a coup with an agreement to publish a literary journal linked with iconic author Norman Mailer. }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://normanmailersociety.org/2007/05/19/a-new-journal-for-mailer-studies/ |title=A New Journal for Mailer Studies |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=May 18, 2007 |website=The Norman Mailer Society |access-date=2017-10-22 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Melendez |first=Barbara |date=October 23, 2013 |title=All About Mailer |url=http://news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=5809 |work=University of South Florida |location=News |access-date=2018-11-16 }}</ref> It was originally proposed to publish twice a year and contain "objective articles, including scholarly, biographical, bibliographical and cultural essays [by] a wide range of writers and views".{{sfn|Walker|2007|p=6}} The ''Review'' "contains a broad range of expertly edited essays, reviews, memoirs, documentary material, and a number of heretofore unpublished short works by Mailer, [and] is a major contributor to Mailer's legacy".<ref name=wd>{{cite book |last1=Lennon |first1=J. Michael |last2=Lennon| first2=Donna Pedro |editor-last=Lucas |editor-first=Gerald R. |date=2018 |title=Norman Mailer: Works and Days |edition=Revised, Expanded |url=http://worksdays.projectmailer.net/ |location=Atlanta, GA |publisher=The Norman Mailer Society |isbn=978-1-7326519-0-6 |page=xiii }}</ref> J. Michael Lennon, then the Society's president, said the journal will realize the Society's goal to produce "something that is going to be relevant and accessible".{{sfn|Walker|2007|p=7}}
The inaugural issue of ''Review'' arrived on newsstands on October 18, 2007. Since, the ''Review'' has published one volume annually for a total of ten in 2017.<ref name=wd /> Dwight Garner called the premiere issue of the ''Review'' a "fascinating testament to Mailer's headlong life."<ref>{{cite news |last=Garner |first=Dwight |date=October 18, 2007 |title=The Mailer Review |url=https://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/the-mailer-review/ |work=The New York Times |location=ArtsBeat |access-date=2017-03-15 }}</ref> Recent issues of the ''Review'' have included never-before-published short stories from Norman Mailer's archive at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.{{sfn|Lennon|Lennon|2018|pp=332, 335, 337, 338}}<ref>See volumes 6–10, years 2012–2016, on the bibliography under short stories.</ref>
No impact factor is provided for the Review by Clarivate. No article in the Review had been listed by Google Scholar since 2017.
== See also == * Norman Mailer Society * Norman Mailer bibliography
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{URL|http://mailerreview.org|''The Mailer Review''}} * {{URL|https://normanmailer.us|The Norman Mailer Collection}}
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