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“Mailer: Tough Guy at Ease in P’town.” Article-interview by Peter E. Howard. Cape Cod Times, 12 August, 1, 12–13; front page photograph of Mailer. The conversation focuses mainly on 84.17, with a long aside on feminism. Mailer says, “I always wanted to write a book about Provincetown….It’s full of mood. I think the mark of a good murder mystery is that it is full of mood.”