1982

Pieces and Pontifications (82.16), Mailer’s fifth miscellany, including 12 essays and 20 interviews, and edited by J. Michael Lennon, is published on 21 June.

A TV miniseries of The Executioner's Song (79.14), produced and directed by Schiller, airs in November. Mailer writes the screenplay.

Mailer: A Biography, by Hilary Mills, is published.

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  NM in NYC, 1982.

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  Credit: Paul Burnett.

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  Christopher Walken, Susan Sarandon, and Norman Mailer outside the trial of Jack Henry Abbott, 1982. Credit: David Handschuh.

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  Norman Mailer and Rosanna Arquette in Paris.