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	~~====~~''Existential Errands''. Boston: Little, Brown, 17 April; Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, August 1982. Miscellany, 365 pp., $7.95.~~====~~		{{Large\|''Existential Errands''. Boston: Little, Brown, 17 April; Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, August 1982. Miscellany, 365 pp., $7.95.}}

	The British edition combines 72.7 with ''The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer'' ([[67.11]]) under the title ''The Essential Mailer'' ([[82.19]]).		The British edition combines 72.7 with ''The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer'' ([[67.11]]) under the title ''The Essential Mailer'' ([[82.19]]).

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	* {{cite news \|last=Buchanan \|first=Cynthia \|date=April 16, 1972 \|title=We Read Mailer because He Is Our Genius \|url=https://nyti.ms/2GtJjf3 \|url-access=limited \|work=New York Times Book Review \|pages=27–28 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Positive.		* {{cite news \|last=Buchanan \|first=Cynthia \|date=April 16, 1972 \|title=We Read Mailer because He Is Our Genius \|url=https://nyti.ms/2GtJjf3 \|url-access=limited \|work=New York Times Book Review \|pages=27–28 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Positive.
	* {{cite news \|last=Edwards \|first=Thomas \|date=June 15, 1972 \|title=Keeping Up with Mailer \|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/06/15/keeping-up-with-norman-mailer/ \|url-access=subscription \|work=New York Review of Books \|pages=21–22 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.		* {{cite news \|last=Edwards \|first=Thomas \|date=June 15, 1972 \|title=Keeping Up with Mailer \|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/06/15/keeping-up-with-norman-mailer/ \|url-access=subscription \|work=New York Review of Books \|pages=21–22 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.
	* {{cite news \|last=Lask \|first=Thomas \|date=May 5, 1972 \|title=Review of ''Existential Errands'' \|url=https://nyti.ms/2Gu7PMQ \|work=New York Times \|page=38 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.		* {{cite news \|last=Lask \|first=Thomas \|date=May 5, 1972 \|title=Review of ''Existential Errands'' \|url=https://nyti.ms/2Gu7PMQ \|url-access=limited \|work=New York Times \|page=38 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.
			* {{cite news \|last=Maloff \|first=Saul \|date=June 30, 1972 \|title=Review of ''Existential Errands'' \|url= \|work=Commonweal \|page=361 \|access-date= }} Mixed.
			* {{cite news \|last=Oberbeck \|first=S. K. \|date=April 30, 1972 \|title=Like an Ahab Hunting Many Whales \|url= \|work=Washington Post Book World \|page=5 \|access-date= }}

	'''Essays'''		'''Essays'''
			* {{cite book \|last=Adams \|first=Laura \|date=1977 \|title=Existential Battles: the Growth of Norman Mailer \|pages=169–171 \|location=Athens \|publisher=Ohio UP \|author-link= }}
			* {{cite book \|last=Radford \|first=Jean \|date=1975 \|title=Norman Mailer: A Critical Study \|location=London; Basingstoke \|publisher=Macmillan Press \|pages=170–175 \|ref=harv }}

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	The British edition combines 72.7 with ''The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer'' ([[67.11]]) under the title ''The Essential Mailer'' ([[82.19]]).		The British edition combines 72.7 with ''The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer'' ([[67.11]]) under the title ''The Essential Mailer'' ([[82.19]]).

	Dedication: “To Barbara, to Susan, to Adeline, and to Al.” Rpt: 98.7 (partial).		Dedication: “To [[Barbara Wasserman Mailer\|Barbara]], to [[Susan Mailer\|Susan]], to Adeline, and to Al.” Rpt: [[98.7]] (partial).

	{{cquote\|This collection covers pieces written almost entirely in the last five years, a period in which ''The Deer Park'' as a play<ref>[[67.13]]</ref> was given its last draft and then produced, ''Why Are We in Vietnam?''<ref>[[67.15]]</ref> was written and then ''The Armies of the Night,''<ref>[[68.8]]</ref> ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago,''<ref>[[68.25]]</ref> ''Of a Fire on the Moon''<ref>[[71.1]]</ref> and ''The Prisoner of Sex''.<ref>[[71.20]]</ref> Three movies<ref>''Wild 90'', ''Beyond the Law'' and ''Maidstone</ref> were also made. So it is a period when, with every thought of beginning a certain big novel which had been promised for a long time, the moot desire to have one’s immediate say on contemporary matters kept diverting the novelistic impulse into journalism.\|author=Mailer\|source=72.7}}		{{cquote\|This collection covers pieces written almost entirely in the last five years, a period in which ''The Deer Park'' as a play<ref>[[67.13]]</ref> was given its last draft and then produced, ''Why Are We in Vietnam?''<ref>[[67.15]]</ref> was written and then ''The Armies of the Night,''<ref>[[68.8]]</ref> ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago,''<ref>[[68.25]]</ref> ''Of a Fire on the Moon''<ref>[[71.1]]</ref> and ''The Prisoner of Sex''.<ref>[[71.20]]</ref> Three movies<ref>''Wild 90'', ''Beyond the Law'' and ''Maidstone</ref> were also made. So it is a period when, with every thought of beginning a certain big novel which had been promised for a long time, the moot desire to have one’s immediate say on contemporary matters kept diverting the novelistic impulse into journalism.\|author=Mailer\|source=72.7}}
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	File:72-7.jpg\|Cover of the first edition.		File:72-7.jpg\|Cover of the first edition.
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			== Notes ==
			{{Reflist\|20em}}

	== Bibliography ==		== Bibliography ==
	{{Refbegin\|40em}}		{{Refbegin\|40em}}
	'''Reviews'''		'''Reviews'''
	* {{cite news \|last=Buchanan \|first=Cynthia \|date=April 16, 1972 \|title=We Read ~~Him~~ because He Is Our Genius \|url= \|work=New York Times Book Review \|pages=27–28 \|access-date= }} Positive.		* {{cite news \|last=Buchanan \|first=Cynthia \|date=April 16, 1972 \|title=We Read Mailer because He Is Our Genius \|url=https://nyti.ms/2GtJjf3 \|url-access=limited \|work=New York Times Book Review \|pages=27–28 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Positive.
			* {{cite news \|last=Edwards \|first=Thomas \|date=June 15, 1972 \|title=Keeping Up with Mailer \|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/06/15/keeping-up-with-norman-mailer/ \|url-access=subscription \|work=New York Review of Books \|pages=21–22 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.
			* {{cite news \|last=Lask \|first=Thomas \|date=May 5, 1972 \|title=Review of ''Existential Errands'' \|url=https://nyti.ms/2Gu7PMQ \|work=New York Times \|page=38 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.

	'''Essays'''		'''Essays'''

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====''Existential Errands''. Boston: Little, Brown, 17 April; Sevenoaks, Kent: New English Library, August 1982. Miscellany, 365 pp., $7.95.====

The British edition combines 72.7 with ''The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer'' ([[67.11]]) under the title ''The Essential Mailer'' ([[82.19]]).

Dedication: “To Barbara, to Susan, to Adeline, and to Al.” Rpt: 98.7 (partial).

{{cquote|This collection covers pieces written almost entirely in the last five years, a period in which ''The Deer Park'' as a play<ref>[[67.13]]</ref> was given its last draft and then produced, ''Why Are We in Vietnam?''<ref>[[67.15]]</ref> was written and then ''The Armies of the Night,''<ref>[[68.8]]</ref> ''Miami and the Siege of Chicago,''<ref>[[68.25]]</ref> ''Of a Fire on the Moon''<ref>[[71.1]]</ref> and ''The Prisoner of Sex''.<ref>[[71.20]]</ref> Three movies<ref>''Wild 90'', ''Beyond the Law'' and ''Maidstone</ref> were also made. So it is a period when, with every thought of beginning a certain big novel which had been promised for a long time, the moot desire to have one’s immediate say on contemporary matters kept diverting the novelistic impulse into journalism.|author=Mailer|source=72.7}}

Of the six books named above all but ''The Deer Park: A Play'' were nominated for a National Book Award in four different categories. ''The Armies of the Night'' won for arts and letters, and a Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction as well.

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File:72-7.jpg|Cover of the first edition.
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== Bibliography ==
{{Refbegin|40em}}
'''Reviews'''
* {{cite news |last=Buchanan |first=Cynthia |date=April 16, 1972 |title=We Read Him because He Is Our Genius |url= |work=New York Times Book Review |pages=27–28 |access-date= }} Positive.

'''Essays'''

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	* {{cite news \|last=Buchanan \|first=Cynthia \|date=April 16, 1972 \|title=We Read Mailer because He Is Our Genius \|url=https://nyti.ms/2GtJjf3 \|url-access=limited \|work=New York Times Book Review \|pages=27–28 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Positive.		* {{cite news \|last=Buchanan \|first=Cynthia \|date=April 16, 1972 \|title=We Read Mailer because He Is Our Genius \|url=https://nyti.ms/2GtJjf3 \|url-access=limited \|work=New York Times Book Review \|pages=27–28 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Positive.
	* {{cite news \|last=Edwards \|first=Thomas \|date=June 15, 1972 \|title=Keeping Up with Mailer \|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/06/15/keeping-up-with-norman-mailer/ \|url-access=subscription \|work=New York Review of Books \|pages=21–22 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.		* {{cite news \|last=Edwards \|first=Thomas \|date=June 15, 1972 \|title=Keeping Up with Mailer \|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1972/06/15/keeping-up-with-norman-mailer/ \|url-access=subscription \|work=New York Review of Books \|pages=21–22 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.
	* {{cite news \|last=Lask \|first=Thomas \|date=May 5, 1972 \|title=Review of ''Existential Errands'' \|url=https://nyti.ms/2Gu7PMQ \|work=New York Times \|page=38 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.		* {{cite news \|last=Lask \|first=Thomas \|date=May 5, 1972 \|title=Review of ''Existential Errands'' \|url=https://nyti.ms/2Gu7PMQ \|url-access=limited \|work=New York Times \|page=38 \|access-date=2018-12-18 }} Mixed.
			* {{cite news \|last=Maloff \|first=Saul \|date=June 30, 1972 \|title=Review of ''Existential Errands'' \|url= \|work=Commonweal \|page=361 \|access-date= }} Mixed.
			* {{cite news \|last=Oberbeck \|first=S. K. \|date=April 30, 1972 \|title=Like an Ahab Hunting Many Whales \|url= \|work=Washington Post Book World \|page=5 \|access-date= }}

	'''Essays'''		'''Essays'''
			* {{cite book \|last=Adams \|first=Laura \|date=1977 \|title=Existential Battles: the Growth of Norman Mailer \|pages=169–171 \|location=Athens \|publisher=Ohio UP \|author-link= }}
			* {{cite book \|last=Radford \|first=Jean \|date=1975 \|title=Norman Mailer: A Critical Study \|location=London; Basingstoke \|publisher=Macmillan Press \|pages=170–175 \|ref=harv }}

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