An American Dream Resources

Essentially, this website is like the greatest Tumblr blog dedicated to Norman Mailer—and that is by no means a bad thing.

Hey, we don't know—maybe reading An American Dream made you want to plan your life in accordance to the phases of the moon, just like Rojack. Stranger things have happened.

This loose adaptation of the novel bombed so hard at the box office that they retitled it See You In Hell Darling for its subsequent rerelease. Ouch.

This is actually Mailer's second sit-down with The Paris Review's legendary "Art of Fiction" series, but the previous interview took place before he wrote An American Dream.

This interview represents Mailer and Gore Vidal burying the hatchet after their well-known feud on The Dick Cavett Show. Think of these two as the literary Biggie and Tupac.

This interview touches on Mailer's passion for film, including the way that this love for cinema shaped his writing style.

If nothing else, this interview with legendary conservative William Buckley is worth watching on the sole basis of the two men's glorious accents.

Check out Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal's famous fight on Dick Cavett's legendary talk show. Hold onto your hats…

Do you really need an explanation for this one?

This radio piece, released shortly after Mailer's death, touches on the major criticisms and controversies that surrounded his career.

This 1991 interview gets to the heart of Mailer's feelings about his own work, as well as his motivations for becoming an author in the first place.

This is a picture of a full moon. We sincerely hope it doesn't make you want to murder someone.

This is what Manhattan looked like in 1965, the year that An American Dream was released.