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...nd weakness as a man and an artist is in that. He was repelled by Maloney{{refn|A writer friend of Larry Alson (1920-2016), a writer and editor who was mar

Television may have some extraordinary quality{{refn|{{NM}} was intrigued by the possibility that television’s monotony had a

...tter was a great relief. I feared that I had spoken out of turn with Ted,{{refn|Theodore Amussen (1915-1988), editor for both {{NM}} and Lindner at Rinehar About your book{{refn|''[[The Deer Park]]''.}}—Norman, it is so good, and has such potential, t

...he one who denies. One’s mother implants upon the infant’s sensate matter{{refn|{{NM}} explores the infant-mother relationship with verve and humor in “[ ...rial he wished to disgorge and leave as his petrifaction, his mark (Reik,{{refn|An American psychologist, [[w:Theodore Reik|Theodore Reik]] (1888-1969) was

...eeking all his life and which he approached in “The Jet-Propelled Couch.”{{refn|A chapter from Lindner’s 1955 collection, ''The Fifty-Minute Hour''. Each

...one who must take on the whole world (The small trumpet of my defiance).{{refn|On the next-to-last page of ''[[The Deer Park]]'', Sergius imagines Eitel t

...a rabbi furious that his most talented disciple was wearing his tfillen){{refn|'''Chassidility''' refers to the Hasidic Orthodox sect; the second, spelled

...h Ted Amussen,{{LJ:Amussen}} Stan Rinehart,{{LJ:Rinehart}} John Aldridge,{{refn|A prolific literary critic and professor at the University of Michigan, [[w

The tragic air of Mexico{{refn|{{NM}} usually spent two or three months every year from 1952–59, visitin

Dialogue: Yesterday, Hiram Haydn{{refn|A prominent figure in the postwar New York literary world, and longtime edi

...never could accept the Soviet Union even in the height of my Wallace days{{refn|In 1948, {{NM}} campaigned for [[w:Henry A. Wallace|Henry A. Wallace]], the

...he pillars of society like Stalin, Chamberlain, the D.A.R.s, my Aunt Nan,{{refn|Anne Mailer Kessler (1889-1958) was the sister of Mailer’s father, Barney

...act that—I’ve been—as you seem to sense—close to illness with exhaustion.{{refn|It appears that the root cause Lindner’s declining health was congestive ''Genug!''{{refn|Enough.}}

...he bark of anger which is the echo of the sigh of regret? Vance Bourjaily{{refn|He wrote to {{NM}} in the summer of 1951 with praise for ''[[Barbary Shore]

Marion Faye’s{{LJ:Faye}} note: Re: Teddy Pope,{{refn|In ''[[The Deer Park]]'', a handsome gay actor who is forced to play straig

...refn|A Hebrew term meaning a righteous or holy person.}} of the Chasidim,{{refn|A sect of Orthodox Jews that arose in Eastern Europe in the late 18th centu

...u don’t have the time to do personally but would like to see followed up.{{refn|This job never materialized.}} As far as pay goes, I don’t care about tha ...other connection.}} belongs to you now or is still in Jerry Wald’s hands.{{refn|[[w:Jerry Wald|Wald]] (1911-62) was a screenwriter and producer who won an

...uck like the ultimate end of thought is to comprehend the universe whole.{{refn|At which point all dualisms, oppositions, duads, and polarities would disap

...Last week I was a patient at the Doctor’s Hospital in New York and Billie{{refn|Rembar’s wife.}} and Cy{{LJ:Rembar}} came to see me at Johnnie’s{{LJ:Jo

...-publishable in its present form (which had been at the back of my mind.){{refn|{{NM}} never changed his mind about publishing of “Lipton’s,” but he ...One thing which bucked me up is that in going over ''[[The Deer Park]]''{{refn|Mailer missed several deadlines for submitting the last draft to Putnam’s