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 {{cite book |last=Ricks |first=Christopher |chapter=Norman Mailer: ''The Executioner’s Song'' |url= |title=Reviewery |date=2002 |pages=79–90 |location=New York |publisher=Handsell |access-date= |ref=harv }}
+== 2003 ==
+=== Primary ===
+==== Books and Pamphlets ====
+''The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing''. Edited by J. Michael Lennon. New York: Random House, 31 January 2003 (Mailer’s 80th birthday). Miscellany, 330 pp., $24.95. Dedication: “To J. Michael Lennon.” Soft cover edition appeared later in 2003. A compilation taken from nearly 200 previously published works by Mailer and 50 previously unpublished or newly written items, edited and organized under six topical headings: Lit Biz, Craft, Psychology, Philosophy, Genre, and Giants, this last consisting of comment on Tolstoy, Twain, Hemingway, Henry James, Henry Miller, D. H. Lawrence, Dreiser, Bellow, Toni Morrison, Jonathan Franzen and several other writers. Contains extensive source notes, acknowledgements and an index. “Birds and Lions: Writing from the Inside Out,” an advance excerpt, appeared in ''The New Yorker'', 23–30 December 2002, 76, 78–79, 81–82, 84.
+''Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings''. New York: Random House, spring, 2003. 275 pp., $14.95. Dedication: “To Norris.” Acknowledgements: “I would like to thank David Ebershoff, Dwayne R. Prickett, Danielle Mailer, J. Michael Lennon and Judith McNally for their careful reading and criticism of this book.” Soft cover. A reprint of the majority of Mailer’s poems (some revised) from two earlier works: his 1962 collection of poems, ''Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)'', and his 1966 miscellany, ''Cannibals and Christians'', along with a suite of eight new poems collectively titled “Hemingway Revisited.” The Hemingway poems also appeared in ''Paris Review'' (see below). Interspersed with the poems are about 100 of Mailer’s captioned and humorous line drawings of faces, most of which are obliquely related to the poems. He also includes his introduction to the 1971 soft cover edition of ''Deaths for the Ladies'' published by New American Library.
+''Why Are We at War?'' New York: Random House, April 2003. Essay and interviews. 111 pp., $7.99. Dedication: “To Norris.” Soft cover. A polemic against the Iraq War assembled from two interviews and a speech from the period September 2002 to February 2003 (see below).
+==== Essays, poems, forewords, prefaces, introductions, symposia contributions, letters to the editor ====
+“Mailer Erupts: Bush Needs a War Because America Needs an Empire.” ''Daily Telegraph'' (London), 21 February 2003, 22–23. Consists of the transcript of a long speech Mailer gave on 20 February at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on what he sees as the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century—and what can be done to meet it. ''The New York Review of Books'' reprinted the speech as “Only in America” in its 27 March 2003 number. The Commonwealth Club’s magazine, ''The Commonwealth'', also reprinted the speech with the same title in its 15 April 2000 issue, accompanied by the Q and A session in San Francisco with Barbara Lane that followed it in which Mailer speaks of celebrity, reviewers, marriage, and his relationship with Gore Vidal. Finally, a large part of the speech was used in ''Why Are We at War?'' (see above).
+“Gaining an Empire, Losing Democracy.” ''International Herald Tribune'', 25 February 2003. Essay of approximately 500 words in which Mailer again attacks the Bush administration “for moving in an imperial direction.” His comments are excerpted from a 22 February speech at the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
+“We Went to War Just to Boost the White Male Ego.” ''The Times'' (London), 29 April 2003, 20. Essay of approximately 1500 words in which Mailer argues that Pres. Bush went to war because “we very much needed a war” to offset the sinking economy, the loss of face resulting from scandals in the Catholic Church, U.S. corporations, and the FBI, and behind all this, was the need to bolster the sagging machismo of white American males. An expanded version of this essay appeared in the ''New York Review of Books'', 7 July 2003, under the title “The White Man Unburdened.” On 14 August 2003, the ''Review'' published a response to Mailer’s essay by Roland Tiersky, and Mailer’s 1200-word reply.
+“A Riff on Hemingway.” ''Paris Review'', no. 167 (fall 2003), 267–70. 50th Anniversary Number. Poems (with editor’s title). Reprinted from ''Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings'' (see above), where the poems appear in a slightly different form. It is possible that these poems were submitted to ''Paris Review'' well before ''Modest Gifts'' was published.
+==== Interviews ====
+“Norman Mailer: Writer.” ''V Magazine'', no. 21 (January/February 2003), 8. Interview by Christopher Bollen. Focus is on ''The Spooky Art'', its genesis and examination of the writing life. Mailer also looks back at earlier works: ''The Naked and the Dead'', ''The Armies of the Night'', and ''The Executioner’s Song''.
+“Old Brawler Won’t Grapple with History: Norman Mailer Ruminates on Literature and Life.” Article-interview by Julie Salamon. ''New York Times'', 22 January 2003, E1, E10. On the eve of his 80th birthday and the publication of ''The Spooky Art'', Mailer talks in Provincetown about the coming war in Iraq and the diminishing power of the novel to affect the life of a nation: “The novel now rides in a sidecar.” Accompanied by a harshly negative review of ''The Spooky Art'' by Michiko Kakutani, one in a long line of negative reviews from Mailer’s ''bête noir'' among reviewers.
+“You’re in the Lap of History.” Interview by Malcolm Jones. ''Newsweek'', 27 January 2003, 62–64, 66. Another Provincetown interview occasioned by the publication of ''The Spooky Art'', with comment on the fiction/nonfiction debate, Iraq, and the Jack Abbott affair. Accompanied by quotes from ''The Spooky Art'', 2003.
+{{" '}}Yes, I Misbehaved Sometimes’.” Article-interview by Zoe Heller. ''Daily Telegraph'' (U.K.), 3 March 2003, 19. Frothy piece in which Heller recites various factoids of the Mailer legend; it is partially redeemed by Mailer’s comments, given in Brooklyn, on death, karma, and reincarnation. Accompanied by an excerpt from ''The Spooky Art'', 2003.
+“To Mailer, a Good Soldier Puts War on Paper.” Article-interview by Bob Minzesheimer. ''USA Today'', 10 April 2003, 7D. Mailer is one of several combat veterans-turned-writers who were interviewed about the literary possibilities of the Iraq War. Mailer, along with Tim O’Brien, James Blinn, Andy McNabb and others are quoted. Mailer’s most interesting comments deal with the many letters he wrote home from the South Pacific during WWII: “Those were my notes for ''The Naked and the Dead''.”
+“Our Town.” Interview by Joseph P. Kahn. ''Boston Globe Magazine'' “Special Issue, New Perspectives on Cape Cod,” 22 June 2003, 19. Along with Michael Lee, Robert Pinsky, Mary Higgins Clark, Susan Baker, Joel Meyerowitz and a half-dozen others, Mailer talks about the Cape. “All through the war,” he said, “I dreamed of coming of coming back [to Provincetown]. Then to come here, my Lord, it had the feel of 1790.”
+“Norman Mailer Gets Moral.” Interview by Tim McCarthy. ''Life in Provincetown'', 14 August 2003, 10–11, 14, 22. Mailer’s comments are evenly divided between his warm memories of Provincetown, where he wrote parts of all but five or six of his books, and his theological views: “We were created in God’s image because we are the infantry of God’s vision.”
+=== Secondary ===
+{{Anchor|Bloom2003}}{{cite book |last=Bloom |first=Harold |date=2003 |title=Bloom’s Modern Critical Views: Norman Mailer |url= |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Chelsea House |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} 262 pp. Collection of 13 reprinted essays, Bloom’s critical introduction, a Mailer chronology, Mailer bibliography, and index.
+{{cite book |last=Cotkin |first=George |date=2003 |title=Existential America |url= |location=Baltimore |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} 359 pp., indexed.
+{{cite book |last=Hamil |first=Pete |date=2003 |chapter=Norman Mailer |title=American Rebels |url= |editor-last=Newfield |editor-first=Jack |location=New York |publisher=Nation Books |pages=1–6 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }}
+{{cite book |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |date=2003 |chapter=Norman Mailer |title=American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies. Retrospective Supplement II: James Baldwin to Nathanael West |editor-last=Parini |editor-first=Jay |location=New York |publisher=Scribner’s |pages=195–217 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Includes Mailer bibliography.
+{{cite news |last=Rosenbaum |first=Ron |date=10 February 2003 |title=Mailer Was the Rage |url= |work=New York Observer |pages=1, 8 |access-date= |ref=harv }}
+{{cite book |last=Whalen-Bridge |first=John |date=2003 |chapter=Norman Mailer |title=American Novelists Since World War II: Seventh Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography |volume=278 |editor1-last=Giles |editor1-first=James R. |editor2-last=Giles |editor2-first=Wanda H. |location=Detroit |publisher=Thompson Gale |pages=217–32 |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} Includes Mailer bibliography.
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