On 28 August, {{NM}}’s mother dies.
|File:1985 NM.jpg|NM in 1985.
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...an Dream'' ([[65.7]]) is serialized in ''Esquire'', January-August, with {{NM}} completing each chapter six weeks before it appears.
|File:1964 NM and Beverly.jpg|NM and Beverly in 1964. Photo by Richard Avedon.
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In February and March, {{NM}} attends meetings and writes statements in support of [[w:Salman Rushdie|S
|File:1989 Helen Vendler, NM, Leo L. Beranek.jpg|Helen Vendler, NM, Leo L. Beranek, 1989. Photo by Ivan Massar.
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{{NM}} continues work on ''Harlot's Ghost'' ([[91.26]]).
|File:1990 JB, Norris, NM.jpg|John Buffalo, Norris, and NM, c. 1990.
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On 23 April, {{NM}} receives (for the second time) Harvard University’s Signet Society Meda
|File:1995a.jpg|NM circa 1995.
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In July, makes his third experimental film, ''Maidstone'', on Long Island. {{NM}} plays a famous director, Norman T. Kingsley, and Rip Torn plays his half-
|File:1968-NM-Chris-Smith.jpg|NM in 1968. Photo by Chris Smith.
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|File:1976 NM, Helen Meyer, Irwin Shaw.jpg|NM, Helen Meyer, and Irwin Shaw, 1978.
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...Breslin|Jimmy Breslin]]. ''New York'', 5 May, 40–44; cover photograph of {{NM}} and Breslin. The most humorous of the accounts of how the Mailer-Breslin
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|File:1988 NM in Miami.jpg|NM at Miami Bookfair International, 1988.
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In November, {{NM}} divorces [[w:Beverly Bentley|Beverly Bentley]], marries and divorces Caro
|File:1980 Buzz Faber and NM.jpg|Buzz Faber and NM (1980).
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A facsimile of the manuscript of {{NM}}’s unpublished 1943 novel, ''A Transit to Narcissus'' ([[78.2]]), is pub
|File:1979 Norris, John Buffalo, and NM.jpg|Norris, John Buffalo, and NM (c. 1979).
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...ys]] in New York on 31 January; it closes 21 May after 127 performances. {{NM}} underwrites the production and loses money. The cast includes his wife [[
|File:1967 NM - Peter Keen.jpg|NM in 1967. Photo by Peter Keen.
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{{NM}}’s article on the 1996 campaign appears in the January issue of ''George
|File:1997.jpg|NM in 1997.
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In April, {{NM}} sells his 500-cubic-foot archive, including approximately 50,000 of his l
|File:2005 - Star Black.jpg|NM in 2005. Photo by Star Black.
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''Pieces and Pontifications'' ([[82.16]]), {{NM}}’s fifth miscellany, including 12 essays and 20 interviews, and edited b
|File:1982 NM in NYC.jpg|NM in NYC, 1982.
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In June, {{NM}} purchases a house in Provincetown, 565 Commercial Street, where he will l
|File:1966 NM.jpg|NM in 1966. Photo by Maury Englander.
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|File:1932 NM and Barbara.jpg|NM and Barbara, 1932.
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{{NM}} graduates from Harvard on 27 May with a S.B. degree (with honors) in engi
|File:1943-NM-Harvard.jpg|From the 1943 Harvard class album.
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{{NM}} takes a two-semester writing course (1940–1941) from Robert Gorham Davi
|File:NM-1941.jpg|NM at Harvard in 1941.
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{{NM}} visits Russia for the first time in March; returns with [[Norris Church M
|File:1984 Irving Penn.jpg|NM by Irving Penn, 1984.
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In spring semester, {{NM}} takes Howard Mumford Jones’s “Modern American Literature,” one of t
|File:1942-NM.2.jpg|Mailer in Washington D.C., 1942.
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|File:1962-Danielle-NM-Elizabeth.jpg|Danielle, NM, and Elizabeth, 1962.
|File:1962-Lady-Jean-Campbell-NM-Tibo-credit-Ivan-Massar.jpg|Jeanne Campbell, NM, and Tibo (1962). Photo by Ivan Massar.
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{{NM}} does two interviews (one in ''New York'' and the other in ''Playboy'') wi
|File:2004 NM and Barbara.jpg|NM and Barbara in 2004.
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''The Executioner's Song'' ([[79.14]]), {{NM}}’s third and most important collaboration with [[Lawrence Schiller]], is
|File:1979 - NM and Larry Schiller.jpg|NM and Lawrence Schiller, 1979.
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...gloom with the radiance of anarchism. As Jenny Silverman{{refn|Mother of {{NM}}’s first wife Bea.}} said of me once, “The little pisherke with the bi
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|File:1986 NM in Ptown.jpg|NM in Provincetown while filming ''TGDD'', 1986. Photo by Ken Regan.
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...ame. The essay was reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''. See ''[[NM:WD]]'' [[55.2]].}} I wrote a letter to Lasky saying that I would but on my
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In October, {{NM}} covers the “[[w:The Rumble in the Jungle|The Rumble in the Jungle]],”
|File:1974 NM.jpg|NM in 1974. Photo by Molly Malone Cook.
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On 1 May, {{NM}} announces his candidacy for mayor of New York (with journalist [[w:Jimmy
|File:1969 nm.jpg|NM in 1969.
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...abs on public agencies and officials. It fizzles out in a few years, but {{NM}} is prescient: the Watergate break-in occurs in June.
|File:1973 NM, Carol Stevens and Maggie.jpg|NM, Carol Stevens, and Maggie (1973).
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On 18 April, {{NM}} is awarded Harvard University's Signet Society Medal for Achievement in t
|File:1970 NM.jpg|NM speaks at an anti-war rally (1970).
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|File:1965 NM.jpg|NM in 1965.
|File:1965-NM-Ali-San-Juan.jpg|NM and Ali in San Juan, 1965.
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{{NM}} covers the August Republican Convention and publishes his account in the
|File:1992 NM and JML at Wilkes.jpg|Norman Mailer and J. Michael Lennon at Wilkes Univers
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11 April, Peter born to {{NM}}’s sister, [[Barbara Mailer Wasserman|Barbara]], then married to Larry A
|File:1955-NM-Dan Wolf.jpg|Mailer and Dan Wolf in the offices of the ''Village Voice'', 1
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{{NM}} publishes 17 weekly columns in the ''Voice'', the first 14 titled "Quickl
|File:1956.jpg|NM in 1956.
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Listening to Dizzy Gillespie{{refn| NM heard [[w:Dizzy Gillespie|Gillespie]] (1917-1993), one of the great jazz tr
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[[File:NM-80.jpg|thumb|400px]]{{Large|'''Norman Mailer at 100'''}}<br />{{Big|April 2
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Get a tape recorder for Lipton’s soliloquies.<ref>{{NM}} did buy one, as later notes indicate. A few of the recordings can be foun
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In late June, {{NM}} writes the introduction for and helps arrange the publication by Random H
|File:1980 Abbott and NM.jpg|Jack Abbott and NM, 1981.
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{{NM}}’s interview with [[Robert Begiebing]] ([[83.10]]), one of his three or
|File:1983 NM on Harvard Mag.jpg|NM on ''Harvard Magazine'', 1983.
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...re Vidal. New York: Random House. Vidal describes his first meeting with {{NM}}, and other encounters, here.
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...Blood of the Blunt” ([[12.1]]), a previously unpublished short story by {{NM}} is published in the ''[[The Mailer Review, Volume 6, 2012|Mailer Review]]
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On 25 February, {{NM}} is awarded the Gold Medal for Literature by the National Arts Club.
|File:1976 Matthew and NM.jpg|Matthew and NM in Wellfleet, c. 1975.
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...-god-problem/ On Sartre’s God Problem].” ''Nation'' 280, 6 June, 30, 32. {{NM}}’s mixes praise of Sartre with criticism for his atheism. See [[55.11]].
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...she has intestinal cancer and undergoes the first of several operations. {{NM}} is beset with various health problems: angina, arthritis, macular degener
|File:2000 NM at Home.jpg|Norman Mailer at his home in Provincetown, 2000. Credit: Kathy
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“Tolstoy and Chekov.” ''Paris Review'' 137 (winter), 48–49. {{NM}} recounts a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a conversation between the two g
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File:1955 Adele and NM.jpg|Adele and NM in felony court Dec. 29, 1960.
File:1960 Barbara and Norman.jpg|Barbara and NM, 1962.
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|File:1958 NM.jpg|NM in 1958.
|File:1958.jpg|NM in 1958.
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..., Philosophy: Understanding Mike Tyson.” ''Spin'', September, 40–44, 78. {{NM}} explains Tyson by reference to his “spiritual father, surrogate father,
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...y Martyn Harris. ''Telegraph Magazine'' (England), 5 October, 19–20, 22. {{NM}} is quoted only briefly in this somewhat disapproving piece on [[91.26]] a
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Previously unpublished {{NM}} short story, written circa 1951. Preceded by a facsimile of the original
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...ildren to be encouraged more, and that television commercials be banned. {{NM}} is pictured on the cover with his granddaughter Natasha Lancaster.
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...Comment on “The White Man Unburdened” ([[03.21]]) by Ronald Tiersky and {{NM}}’s 1200-word reply. ''New York Review of Books'', 14 August, 41–42.
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...lentz. ''Time'', 27 January, 74–75. Summary article on the PEN Congress; {{NM}} is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...y Joel Meyerowitz, no pagination. Boston: Bullfinch Press, Little, Brown. {NM}} adds 276 words of praise to Meyerowitz’s haunting photographs of the Ca
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...to the Worst.” ''Esquire'', October, 60–62, 64, 186. Essay on boxing and {{NM}}’s relationship with Ryan O’Neal, with appearances by José Torres and
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....” Academy of Achievement, 12 June. Comprehensive interview ranging over {{NM}}’s early life in Brooklyn, Harvard education, WWII experience, his early
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...''Newsweek'', 27 January, 60–61. Another round-up on the PEN conference. {{NM}}, “who masterminded the Congress,” is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...Mailer''. By Carole Mallory. Beverly Hills, CA: Phoenix Books. Memoir by {{NM}}’s lover from 1984–1991, with many remembered quotes from Mailer.
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...r attempts to be provocative, but only elicits several curt replies from {{NM}} in this brief, unmemorable interview focused on television and sex.
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...Man and Mailer.” Letter to the editor. ''Nation'' 280, 15–22 August, 2. {{NM}} responds to several letters disagreeing with his comments on Sartre in [[
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...imes'', 20 January, Sec. C, p. 25. Overview article on the PEN Congress. {{NM}} is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...en, that fellow, if he read the interview where I said the second.{{refn|{{NM}} refers to his 1948 interview with Louise Levitas, “The Naked are Fanati
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...n), 15–16 April, W6. In a piece focused on ''The Big Empty'' ([[06.2]]), {{NM}} also talks about his earlier work and the current American malaise.
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|File:1959-NM-credit-Judy-Scheftel.jpg|Mailer in captain's hat, 1959. Photo by Judy Schef
|File:1959-NM-credit-Peter-Keen.jpg|Mailer in 1959. Photo by Peter Keen.
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...path. ''Daily Texan'', 26 April 2005, 1, 2A. More details on the sale of {{NM}}’s papers. See [[05.3]], [[05.5]], [[05.6]], [[05.9]], [[05.12]], [[05.1
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[The Flea Market]. ''Pharaon'' (Paris), March-April, 3. In 335 words, {{NM}} extols the virtues of the flea market over the shopping mall in this Fren
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..., written in the wake of Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, in which {{NM}} charges President Clinton with betraying the poor and enriching the wealt
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...6]], including comments on J.F.K., and a conversation about conservatism {{NM}} once had with Arthur Miller.
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...ility with reference to various criminal cases, including Jack Abbott’s. {{NM}} is quoted briefly. See 1982 entries.
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...ess Talent.’” Column by Ina Hughes. ''Knoxville News-Sentinel'', 18 May. {{NM}}’s brief remarks in this column seem to be taken from the same telephone
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...refront'' 6 (winter 1997-1998), 36–41. Thoughtful interview by a veteran {{NM}} interviewer, focusing on the religious ideas behind [[97.13]].
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...ollections from over 200 friends and colleagues, including a number from {{NM}}. See [[77.13]].
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...he-new-paternalism/ Hansberry’s 1 June essay] in the ''Voice'' attacking {{NM}}’s review of “The Blacks” ([[61.6]]) and his views on blacks.
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...h Century].” ''New Yorker'', 6 October, 50–63. Thirty-eight letters from {{NM}} to various correspondents from 1945–1988. Edited by [[J. Michael Lennon
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...ress focusing on a party at the apartment of Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg. {{NM}} is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...ture.” Article by Miles White. ''South Bend Tribune'', 18 May. Report on {{NM}}’s appearance at the Dogwood Fine Arts Festival in Dowagiac, Ind. on 16
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...s. ''New York Times'', 21 December, 28. Report on a disagreement between {{NM}} and Jay Presson Allen, author of “Tru,” a one-man Broadway play about
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....” (London) ''Independent'', 24 January. Contains some brief quotes from {{NM}} as he nears 80. Asked why he does a crossword puzzle and plays solitaire
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...ew by Joshua Karetny. ''Daily Pennsylvanian'', 3 November, 11. Report on {{NM}}’s keynote address at the Jewish Book Festival at the Gershwin YM-YWHA i
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...hing.” Interview by Howard Halle. ''Time Out New York'', 2–8 March, 160. {{NM}} jumps all over corporations and the Bush administration, saying both have
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...he daughter of James Jones. Contains important accounts of meetings with {{NM}}.
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.... ''Washington Post Book World'', 21 January, 7. In this brief exchange, {{NM}} notes that his “relationship with my father was very interesting. Not h
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...ril, 35, 39. Interviewed by telephone from his home in Brooklyn Heights, {{NM}} spoke about forthcoming response to [[97.13]]. Accompanied by Tom Sherida
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...ampshire Sunday News'', 7 June, Sec. E, p. 4. Reynolds’s piece, in which {{NM}} recalls his mother and her family loyalty, appeared first in the ''Los An
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...encer''. ''Vancouver Sun'', 31 October. In Seattle to promote [[95.38]], {{NM}} discusses his credentials for writing an interpretive biography.
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''The Spooky Art'' ([[03.7]]), edited by [[JML|Lennon]], is published on {{NM}}’s 80th birthday, and receives a warm reception, the review of [[w:Michi
|File:2002 NM in Ptown.jpg|Norman Mailer Provincetown, 2002. Photo by Norris Church Maile
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.... ''Hartford Courant'', 6 December, Sec. B, pp. 1, 3. Report, with brief {{NM}} quotes, of his 4 December visit to [[Barry Leeds]]’s Mailer course at C
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“Books: Moonraker.” Interview by Tom Piazza.” ''Omni'', July, 18, 78. {{NM}} revisits some of the questions he raised in ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' ([[
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..., Sec. E (“Datebook”), pp. 1–2. Interviewed at Random House in New York, {{NM}} talks about [[95.16]], with emphasis on the sexuality of Lee Harvey and M
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...}} ''U.S. News and World Report'', 10 December, 57–58. Essay. Summary of {{NM}}’s views on several topics: the 70s, journalism, technology, literary pe
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...ad''. New York: Henry Holt, 6 May, simultaneously in softcover, xi–xiii. {{NM}} wrote this new introduction for an edition issued on the 50th anniversary
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...chael Chaiken]]. ''Mailer Review'', 407–420. A discerning interview with {{NM}} on his films.
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...sement of Jesse Jackson in the New York Democratic presidential primary. {{NM}}’s most considered discussion of Jewish-black relations.
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...y Luaine Lee. ''Chicago Tribune'', 21 September, Sec. 2 (“Tempo”), p. 3. {{NM}} talks more about the problems of celebrity than ''Tough Guys Don’t Danc
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...Sec. B, p. 1. Report on a visit to the University of Scranton on 10 May. {{NM}}’s remarks on novel-writing are quoted briefly.
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...2–83. Late addition to the list of summary articles on the PEN Congress. {{NM}} is quoted throughout this piece, which is only slightly less outraged tha
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...iew by Sue Fox. ''Times'' (London), 8 August, 8. Memoir with quotes from {{NM}} in the hospital just before he died, and from [[John Buffalo Mailer]], [[
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...ghs, Ken Kesey, Gregory Corso, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono and several others, {{NM}} offers a brief valedictory comment on the late poet, lauding his courage
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