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| Norman Mailer: Works and Days |
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| Frontmatter |
| Preface • Lennon Introduction • Lucas Introduction • Acknowledgments and Appreciations |
| Bibliographies |
| First Editions • Key Texts • Bibliographies • Biographies • Criticism • Cultural Backgrounds |
| Works |
| Works Index • NM’s Introductions • The Big Bite • Mailer for Mayor • Abbott Affair |
| Days |
| Days Index • Important Dates |
| Index |
| Index of Names • Works Categories • Days Categories |
 Books •  Projects |
“Mailer’s Many Lives.” Article-interview by Julia Braun Kessler. Life: The World and I, January, 332–339. Mailer comments on Harlot’s Ghost (91.26) in this piece, which contains several errors, the most notable being that Mailer served four years as a rifleman in WWII (he served 25 months in the army); and that The Naked and the Dead (48.2) was accepted by Little, Brown (they turned it down). Mailer says that his
| “ | own key experiences are exactly what I will not use directly. They can instead form crystals in the mind and the heart so that metaphorically I can shine a light through them. I can get one story if the light points in one direction, and yet another for the opposite. That is why I have always wanted to do books not too near me, books that take me out to distant, alien landscapes, places where I have an insight and where the event can have a life, a psychological reality within my imagination. | ” |
