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...de'', 19 August, 4-9. Essay on Russia, based on Mailer’s 15-day stay there in March. [[Category:Works]]

...ry, 17 August. Contains quote from [[84.16]]: “A good many powerful people in both countries depend on keeping these two superpowers at the same ongoing [[Category:Works]]

...editor. ''Esquire'', November, 12. Letter of congratulation on the fiction in the August issue. [[Category:Works]]

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“Norman Mailer: Tough Writers Like Him Can Take a Little Heat When Moving in New Directions.” Article-interview by Karen Heller. ''USA Today'', 12 Sep [[Category:Works]]

...'Esquire'' ([[63.39]]), with the incorrect notation that it appeared there in December 1962; [[66.11]], [[67.11]], [[82.19]]. [[Category:Works]]

...y Cheryl Lavin. ''Parade'', 16 December, 7. [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] fills in the blanks to a set of standard questions—age, birthplace, favorite foods [[Category:Works]]

...nomy, bulwarked by prodigious terror, to an immense welfare state drowning in cynicism, bribery, waste, shoddy products and oppression.” [[Category:Works]]

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...' (London), 27 September–3 October, 14–16. Based on an interview conducted in Brooklyn at the same time as [[84.24]], Rayner’s article parallels Purgav [[Category:Works]]

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...al of St. Isaac in Leningrad.” ''Partisan Review'' 51 (double issue: 51:4, 1984 and 52:1, 1985), 535. Poem. Rpt: ''Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Ed [[Category:Works]]

...nd Anthony Howard on what they take to be his obsession with homoeroticism in [[84.17]]. [[Category:Works]]

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...d University Magazine'', November or December, 8–9. Unremarkable interview in which [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] touches several subjects lightly, including [[Category:Works]]

...Lee Eisenberg and a foreword by Phillip Moffitt: New York: Villard Books, 1984. See [[62.12]]. [[Category:Works]]

...another across the world more quickly than can governments.” His term ran 1984–1986. [[Category:Works]]

...of “The Realist,”'' edited by Paul Krassner. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1984. See [[93.8b]]. [[Category:Works]]

.... Perhaps [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]]’s longest utterance on the Irish, given in the midst of a discussion of [[84.17]]. Rpt: [[88.6]]. See [[68.26]]. [[Category:Works]]

...Mills’s biography ([[82.23]]) and John Updike’s style, which is mentioned in ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' ([[84.17]]). Mailer made his comments at a Was [[Category:Works]]

...has some good exchanges with [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]], whom he interviewed in his Brooklyn home over dinner. On ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' ([[84.17]]): [[Category:Works]]

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...that everything will turn out all right. That’s what they used to tell us in B-movies 50 years ago.” [[Category:Works]]

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...characters at the expense of suspense and the plot.” Bracketed material is in original. [[Category:Works]]

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“Mailer: Tough Guy at Ease in P’town.” Article-interview by Peter E. Howard. ''Cape Cod Times'', 12 A [[Category:Works]]

..., Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner. Rpt: In part in Sunday, ''Boston Herald Magazine'', 21 October, 3–6; cover photograph of [[Category:Works]]

...he reporter that his first murder mystery ([[84.17]]) will be published in 1984. See [[83.56]]. [[Category:Works]]

...od example of Mailer guile and versatility—Tim Madden finding a head, done in the formal archaic structures of Poe.” [[Category:Works]]

...([[81.9]]) given as a Hopwood Lecture at the University of Michigan, April 1984. [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]]’s longest essay on his craft and his most impor [[Category:Works]]

...ibed the murder mystery as being “like an illegitimate baby—it was written in two months, therefore born out of wedlock, and I’m struck by the fact tha [[Category:Works]]

...ght I can’t pretend I haven’t changed since then. It was like being a bird in the jungle, living the life of a bird, and suddenly being treated like a li [[Category:Works]]

...o call it “1999,” but decided against it feeling comparisons with Orwell’s 1984 would be invidious. Rpt: [[67.11]], [[82.19]], [[84.35]], [[The Mailer Revi [[Category:Works]]

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...r it was created in the course of one dark storm) its sand flats glistened in the dawn with the moist primeval innocence of land exposing itself to the s [[Category:Works]]

.... 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 — 

[[File:Norman Mailer (1948).jpg|thumb|400px|Norman Mailer in 1948.]] ...power, technology, architecture, identity and the art of writing appeared in a 60-year run of novels and nonfiction narratives, plays, poems, sports rep

...intellectual ideas of Judaism and how these ideas make themselves manifest in our daily lives.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr02ber}} ...one in his house. He readily agreed, admitting it would be his first seder in fifty years! During the seder, at which [[John Buffalo Mailer|John Buffalo]

{{DISPLAYTITLE:Scorsese vs. Mailer: Boxing as Redemption in ''Raging Bull'' and ''An American Dream''}} ...the ring, provides a number of parallels (and some significant differences in focus) to Mailer’s vision of boxing.

.... Each are divided according to work. Abbreviations that were not included in {{harvtxt|Lennon|2008a|}} or {{harvtxt|Adams|1974|}} are new to this projec | ''SFNM''{{efn|Abbreviated ''SF'' in {{harvtxt|Adams|1974|p=4, passim}}.}}

{{dc|dc=N|orman Mailer is [[w:Proteus|Proteus]].}} Perhaps no career in American literature has been at once so brilliant, varied, controversial, i ...s Mailer compilations, including my own, are fragmentary. ''Norman Mailer: Works and Days'' is built upon these earlier efforts and is much indebted to them

...s piece prefigure and announce the new mode of Mailer’s nonfiction writing in the late 1960s and 1970s, notably ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'', it is th ...source of perception about the human condition. In fact, in his 1993 essay in ''Esquire'', “The Best Move Lies Next to the Worst,” he deals with his

Begun in 2015, the Norman Mailer Society Podcast is the brainchild of host and creat ...2-25 || style="min-width: 175px;" | Podcast Premiere: J. Michael Lennon || In this inaugural episode of the Norman Mailer Society Podcast, host [[Justin

...fiction. The book’s chapter on Mailer’s ''[[Ancient Evenings]]'' appeared in the 2009 edition of ''[[MR09|The Mailer Review]]'', so the “essay” belo ...And there is no Truth in us.|author=Betty Jean Craige|source=''Relativism in the Arts''}}

...tal specialist explains the progress that has been made over the past year in digitizing the Mailer canon and various dimensions of scholarship and resea ...ities have been my primary research interests. While I have addressed both in conference presentations, journal articles, and course offerings, Phillip S

...was the nearest guideline to absolute truth that the working novelist had in my young days.” See [[85.14]]. ...mes to My Aid |title=Who Lost An American |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126139 |location=New York |publisher=Macmillan |pages=1–29

{{start|In this intelligent book, the first volume-length critical study}} of Mailer s define from a British perspective the peculiarly American qualities in the

...An examination of the dimensions, complications, and rewards of collecting works by Norman Mailer. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr03ahe }} definitely a good artist. Others must agree because, in my experience, many

...n style="font-size:22px;">{{BASEPAGENAME}}/</span>Heading Off Satisfaction in ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance''}} ..., which at the same time suppresses all of the stylistic excesses of noir, in effect subverting subversion itself. |url=https://prmlr.us/mr03man}}

...ly new coinages. Based on the illustrative quotations attributed to Mailer in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'', 196 matches exist. Mailer, the person an ...|Coleman|2012|p=1}} Based on the illustrative quotations attributed to him in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (2nd ed.), 196 matches as of this date, M

...ize:22px;">''The Mailer Review''/Volume 9, 2015/</span>“Up to the Nostrils in Anguish”: Mailer and Bellow on Masculine Anxiety and Violent Catharsis}} ...onflict have shifted what new perspective might readers have of this work? In particular, what now can be said about the novel’s depiction of the shapi

...ificant changes, expanding his comments in one place and cutting them back in another, his invariable way of dealing with interviews from the 1950s on. T ...house and his study window, usually open, to tourists. Mailer has summered in P-Town for more than forty years.

...ography: Mailer told Lennon toward the end of his life, to “put everything in,” and he has: triumphs, disasters and all the warts. ...gh because he easily got impatient. I don’t think he was really interested in what I had to say; he wanted to talk and be heard. . . . If you ask me what

...arry Ransom Humanities Center, Flair Conference: Norman Mailer and America in Conflict, {{date|2006-11-10|MDY}}.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr01len}} ...one) a novelist, actor, movie director, pugilist, political candidate,<ref>In 1969, Mailer ran for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York City;

...of Michigan Press, 1990. Mailer reprinted a truncated version of the essay in ''The Spooky Art'' (2003) 67–73. Reprinted with the permission of The Nor ...I was writing ''[[The Naked and the Dead]]''. We used to meet occasionally in the hall when we went down to get our mail. Those days Miller was a shy man

...d transcendental. The poetics is also plural in its underlying statics and in the narrative ''dynamics'' that these statics help constitute. }} ...into a ''single'', deep structure specific to a single author’s vision as in Bordwell’s poetics of the communitarian films of Yasujiro Ozu.{{efn|{{har

...s, these writers transformed their personal angst into great art, creating works that—like Mount Kilimanjaro—endure.|note=An earlier version of this pap ..., and was also published the same year as Fitzgerald’s articles. All three works, I believe, reveal this writer/author alienation, but I decided to use as m

...ve developed in the mid-century science fiction context, but Mailer excels in using the conventions of the genre to present a prescient recognition of ma ...office received a rush of change-of- address forms with a post office box in Santa Fe—near Los Alamos—as the new address. The tale may well be apocr

...015/</span>The Beatster, the White Negro, and the Evolution of the Hipster in ''Fight Club''}} ...ellectual, sexual adventurer or deviant, and Buddhist or spiritual seeker, in many ways mirroring Mailer’s hipster but without the violence.|url=https:

The good is disregarded in every place.

...=Much of the following has been incorporated into ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: Works and Days]]''.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr02bib}} ...date=May 9, 1968 |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1968/05/09/violence-in-oakland/ |accessdate=2020-10-01 |ref=harv }} With other signatories.

...purposeful, and which tackles the large, eternal questions of life, often in striking, disarming, or blasphemous ways. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Mailer e ...examine Norman Mailer, if not quite as a Russian writer, then as a writer in the light of Russian literature. I am, of course, not the first person to n

thief.” I am that thief, a biographer who slides in, snatches every bit of fact, ...tters, calendars, journals, marginalia, books and articles, spending hours in dark archives, riffling through pages and pages, seeking treasure. She also

...success of ''The Naked and the Dead'', ''Barbary Shore'' represents a step in the direction of an increasingly nonderivative art. ...was written, and of Mailer’s own retrospective understanding of the book. In ''Advertisements for Myself'', he tells of the several years following the

...el |note=Abbreviations for titles of books by and about Mailer referred to in the notes are linked or may be found on “[[Norman Mailer's First Editions ...in print. Random House will publish a selected edition of Mailer’s letters in 2008, edited by Lennon.