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.... The nearer I’d come to the approaching chapter, the more outline I’d get in my head. But I never try to tap my head, so to speak…I respect my unconsc [[Category:Works]]

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...ion of the attempt by federal officials to entrap [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] in the drug-dealing of his friend Buzz Farbar by recording a luncheon conversa [[Category:Works]]

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...nterview; both quote Mailer disadvantageously. See other [[:Category:Works in 1973|1973 entries]], [[75.3]], [[74.12]], [[77.7]]. [[Category:Works]]

...documentary, ''Norman Mailer: A Sanction to Write'', at the Thalia Theater in New York. Mailer tells Robertson his current opinion of ''Maidstone'': "Now [[Category:Works]]

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...e been as interesting as the real things that happened with the characters in the story.” [[Category:Works]]

...14 October, 78. In this interview, conducted partly in Brooklyn and partly in London, where Mailer traveled for the 15 October publication of ''Tough Guy {{cquote|I was truly in debt and I owed my publisher a great deal of money. And then the day of rec

...''New York Times Book Review'' bestseller list on 30 September. See other 1984 entries and, for comment on the film version of the novel, see 1986 and 198 ...e no other town like it. If you were sensitive to crowds, you might expire in summer from human propinquity. On the other hand, if you were unable to end

...t doesn’t mean they are not accurate but my actions always seem so bizarre in print because the inner connections are not there. I seem to extraordinaril [[Category:Works]]

In a citation by the Academy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. said: “In a career of living dangerously, he has shown qualities of passion, imaginat [[Category:Works]]

...h Guys Don’t Dance'' ([[84.17]]), set in Provincetown, as a novel “written in an entirely American idiom.” Lorca’s translated poem accompanies the in [[Category:Works]]

...) ''Sunday Times'' ([[83.42]]); excerpts from three chapters are reprinted in [[98.7]]. See [[72.19]], [[74.10]], other 1983 entries. ...vertisements for Myself''{{efn|[[59.13]]}}], but it is a big book. I think in a literary sense it’s the most innovative. I think this is far and away t

...Mailer|Mailer]]. Rpt: A number of the essays and interviews are reprinted in ''The Time of Our Time'' ([[98.7]]). See [[76.15]]. ...er, and the cry of the street debater, front and center, who always speaks in the loudest voice.|author=Mailer|source=82.16}}

...rbary Shore'', ''An American Dream'', ''The Executioner’s Song'' and other works. ...with “everything Norman wrote from age 10 to 84.” The Ransom Center houses works by James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, Tennessee Wi

...loration of the writing of D.H. Lawrence. Rpt: Entire essay first appeared in ''Harper’s'' ([[71.10]]), and was revised for book publication; [[98.7]] Rpt: Partially in [[98.7]], [[13.1]].

{{Big|''Why Are We in Vietnam?'' New York: Putnam’s, 15 September; London: Weidenfeld and Nicol ...lacks one. The dedication, with correct spelling of Farbar’s name, appears in three subsequent softcover editions.

...h Guys Don’t Dance,” has the makings of a bad powerful dream. Based on his 1984 novel, it turns a murder-mystery plot into a melodramatic fandango so dark ...benefited from that careless use of “controversial” as much as any writer in memory, using it to build a feisty media presence that has rivaled —