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  • A dick is a cock. A dike is a Lesbian.
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  • ...oman’s lipstick on a cigarette butt and feel a ''moment'' (a flatness with a ring of almost intangible anxiety). The moment is our female identification
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  • ...and love, we say of another man, “What a good son of a bitch he is.” What a fine orgiastic life-loving man he is.
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  • ...n my mind the sentence kept coming out reversed—I’d rather be a saint than a genius.) The psychopath, I’m afraid reluctantly, I must relinquish—at l
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  • ...ity for other people of that sort. To wit, a special kind of hostility and a special compassion.
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  • ...emerging. Very mistily. A man and a woman are making love, and in the act a thousand pages must be written to cover it totally. Ridiculous. That’s al
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  • Word echoes. I got a theory. I got a fearie. X got a fairy—fiery—fey—fury—phooie-we.
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  • ...and often by silence. So, “exile, silence, and cunning” were the tools of a genius who kept the child in him alive.
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  • ...ight off hand is that a compulsive liar is a man or a woman whose lying is a defense against telling the truth, the real truth, the truth which would de
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  • ...hes Creative Writing and Humanities for the University of Hartford, and is a published author. {{Big|{{c|Written by Robbin A. Martinelli}}}}
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  • ...f a crystal be altered or ignored then the whole gives off an echo, but in a different direction for each crystal.
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  • ...k for picking up languages than intellectuals although of course there are a thousand other things which enter. Takers are obviously better than givers
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  • ...due University specializing in theory and cultural studies. She also holds a teaching assistantship in Purdue’s esteemed freshman composition program. {{Big|{{c|Written by Kristine A. Wilson}}}}
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  • ...y decision to respect the ebb and flow in me and not try to force a One on a Two.
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  • ...pable of all sexual enjoyment, but the one of laying conquering hands whom a wondrous nudity.}}
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  • What a jewel of a word echo. Deep ends, deepens, and . . . depends.
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  • ...to a stranger, and feel nothing consciously, nonetheless we love them with a part of ourselves.
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  • ...or death, or finish. Bottom, bone, building, burial, banal, barter (where a commodity’s use is born for one man, buried for another).
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  • ...ensed that if I published it myself and won (as I felt I would) my life as a gambler would be established. I could hardly turn back.
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  • ...a vested interest in it. It makes it that much more difficult to see it in a new way, to be creative. No wonder critics are critics and novelists are no
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  • ...e to the infant’s where reaction-time is increased, and the senses swim in a peculiar mixture of passivity and exceptional alertness.”
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  • ...und with money in both pockets—as if I’m changing camps, but want to leave a stake in each bivouac.
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  • ...ed. A stimulant so-called is not simply a stimulant, a one, a giver, it is a two—it stimulates certain parts of one and depresses others. Depressants
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  • ...he jump to live television, [[w:Faye Emerson|Emerson]] (1917-1983), hosted a number of talk shows in the 1950s.}} hipsterized.
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  • ...y, very crudely, it is the equivalent of a cheap phonograph’s rendition of a note to the sound in all its variation and multitude on hi-fidelity. Which
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  • ...very least it comes from something or it’s against something, it contains a psychological reality.
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  • ...lk though that jungle like a lion, knowing all the time that you’re really a bird.”
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  • ...a child. “Susie, why are there wars?” “Because people stay home, and after a while they get tired of staying home.”
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  • ...“God, I think it’s a lovely piece of steel . . . it would make a honey of a stamp.”
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  • ...responsibility which I shun—that’s what keeps me from being a leader. For a leader must take in one fundamental way. He must take responsibility.
    498 bytes (89 words) - 10:44, 12 April 2021
  • ...ing sex—they are the women who promise more than they deliver. And there’s a reason for this. The capacity to deliver exists in them, the sexual energy
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  • ...Men with the name Avery are generally very much of a given thing. They are a very . . .)
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  • ...us because she embodies the orgiastic principle, just as an enemy (son-of-a-bitch is invariably used for someone who threatens us no matter how contemp
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  • ...s us, for we feel alternately and even simultaneously that it is a lie and a truth (using truth as something on the way to Truth).
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  • ...erish” sensitivity of southerners who for close to a century now have been a psychically underground proletariat.
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  • ...great writer; I can’t write at all. So I think the average person bridles a little but when they hear my name.”
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  • ...sad motherless young me. Also: mom—mome—home. I have a feeling that om is a kind of hidden clue sound for mother.
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  • ...anced is nonetheless a retreat from a more advanced state of perception to a more elaborated but retrogressive-in-time social production.
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  • ...e Scenes in Asia’s War on Terror''. He also helped direct ''The Fifties'', a 1997 documentary series for television based on the book by author David Ha
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  • {{start|Laura Adams Dunham}}, a retired minister, teaches spiritual energy healing internationally and is working on a new book, ''Spiritual Wisdom for a Planet in Peril''. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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  • ...r.” To which I would answer, “Maybe the man who set up the arrangement was a bisexual too. Most creative people have to be.”
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  • ...ler. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and works as a high school librarian.
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  • ...'' far away. Not to mention hooks and slices. They must be very painful to a one-balled man.
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  • ...an orgy, probably in the form of Two, Three, One. Then, next, it would be a novel. Then an expository essay—“The Psychology of the Orgy.” Then ??
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  • ...gain. We say, “What a pompous prick.” His pompousness pricks us. There are a dozen other things one could add but I am tired.
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  • ...man’s land between a murder mystery, a suspense tale, a film of horror and a comedy of manners.” See 1986 and 1987 entries.
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  • =====“Truth and Being; Nothing and Time: A Broken Fragment from a Long Novel.” ''Evergreen Review'', no. 26 (September-October), 68-74. Sto Rpt: [[63.37]], [[67.11]], [[82.19]]; ''Evergreen Review Reader: A Ten Year Anthology, 1962–1967'', Vol. II, edited by Barney Rosset. New Yo
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  • ...ceive the world. . . . If this doesn’t ring a bell for you now, it’ll toll a mass someday, for ye’re in the archetype.” Or Lannie with echo obscenit
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  • ...steak knife, an error that a competent reporter could have eliminated with a modicum of research.
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  • ...ely marked boundary. I like working back and forth on that boundary….being a range rider on that line.” Accompanied by Margaria Fichtner’s mixed rev
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  • ...urselves when we get into extreme situations, ‘Am I in a farce? Or am I in a tragedy? Is this funny, or is this desperate?{{' "}}
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  • ...of the intellectual consequence—he would have to set out to be a genius or a saint.)
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  • ..., including Mailer’s statement on his refusal to get into a shelter during a New York City air raid drill.
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  • ...but immediately ceded the dispensing of life and the life energies over to a Devil. That is the total contradiction on which {{LJ:S}} rests, but it is s
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  • What’s in a name. The Burglar{{LJ:Bergler}} decided to become the cop, but a German cop, Herr High Inspector.
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  • ...e, and float bond deals for a new bank, when all you have is the brains of a college sophomore who can’t even rob the fraternity party fund.”
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  • ...a full stomach after supper. I wrote it with a style about as sprightly as a German grammar teacher, and this kills me because there was do much I wante
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  • A few word echoes: ...ged into a thing. To ferret is to devote one’s life energies to uncovering a tiny buried thing.
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  • ...understood the United States and the Soviet Union on a local level. He was a poor worker in both countries and how many people can say that?”
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  • ...t probably can do no more than ease him from an intolerable existence into a cloudy nothingness. That is my great adventure with Lipton’s. I will jour
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  • ...''This Is the Beat Generation''. His new book, ''Just Go Down to the Road: A Memoir of Trouble and Travel'', will be published in the US in 2022.
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  • ...ee Emerita. Denise has also written a family memoir ''Holy Unholy'' and as a board member of ''Provincetown ARTS'' she writes book reviews for the magaz
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  • ..., a woman who can talk to all of you, the hell with it, let’s cease having a dialogue altogether.’” See [[91.18]].
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  • {{start|Peter Levenda}} is a writer on esoterica and politics, whose work Unholy Alliance ...er. This foreword was reproduced in Mailer’s ''A Spooky Art''. He has an M.A. in Religious Studies and Asian Studies from Florida International Universi
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  • ...work at least 200 days a year, maybe 250. I write about five or six pages a day.”
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  • ...ets furious these days when I talk about bisexuality. Why don’t you become a homosexual, she flares at me, you want to anyway. The funny thing is that I ...ctive pronunciation which is why so many illiterate people have a bitch of a time pronouncing that seemingly simple word.)
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  • ...t [[w:Gary Gilmore (criminal)|Gary Gilmore]], the executed murderer. “It’s a new angle,” he said.
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  • ...rationalist says: We can only trust objective data, for the subjective is a mal-proportioned exaggeration of the essential material phenomena. ...erely frozen theories, agglomerated habits of ideas which are mistaken for a Reality which may not even be Material.
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  • ...s debut, which he said was “the closest a middle-aged man can get to being a bullfighter.”
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  • My birthday today. Let’s give myself a present of a nice fat installment. My weekend will have bearing on this, but I have many
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  • ...e moment, because I think the moment is a mystery. The moment there is not a moment, then you merely have programs.” See [[70.15]].
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  • ...blic Library System after 31 years of service. During that time, he hosted a weekly television show, interviewing hundred of authors as they passed thro
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  • ...irmont Hotel in San Francisco. Mailer’s theme is that Bush needs a war “as a steppingstone away from our problems.” He also discussed literary matters
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  • ...idential candidate, {{NM}} reveals that he is working on a new book: “It’s a secret what this book is about, and it’s big.” The book is ''The Castle
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  • The universe is a vast puzzle, and man communicates in society as a code-maker. His soul allows him to be the great code-breaker. God is both.
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  • ...r the rest of my life my work will be considered as the work of a man with a disordered mind.” Mailer was released after 17 days.
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  • ...]]), and was there to get a little atmosphere. “The nice thing about being a novelist is you don’t have to tell the truth. Atmosphere is what you’re
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  • ...l miracle which, between us, I doubt if I will do. Still, the book will be a little better and I’ll have learned something in the process, I hope. ...y months now pushed past the normal output of my energy, and it can set up a vicious circle.
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  • ...ountry becomes, if its art becomes as sick as its architecture, you’ve got a sick giant.”
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  • {{start|Peter Alson}}, [[Norman Mailer]]’s nephew, is a writer, journalist, and poker player whose most recent book, ''Take Me to the River'', is a memoir of poker,
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  • ...the white man as a god. He is a god, but he is the god of society, and so a false-but necessary god.
    761 bytes (139 words) - 10:57, 23 April 2021
  • ...with Norman Mailer]].” By [[Michael Chaiken]]. ''Mailer Review'', 407–420. A discerning interview with {{NM}} on his films.
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  • ...defense against action. Which is why it is so compulsive. Truly, there is a worse alternative—they will have to act, and that brings disaster.
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  • ...a cliché, we must always recognize that there was a time when it expressed a deep insight into human nature, deep for its time. To go back over the clic
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  • ...here is a terror in footnotes for they suggest the indefinite expansion of a point. They are the scholar’s timorous tap on the door of the artist.
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  • ...is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything'' (2007), was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007.
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  • {{start|Marc S. Triplett}} is a lawyer with a criminal defense trial and appellate practice. He is a 1974 graduate of the University of Delaware (BA), and received
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  • ...rticle-interview by Mark Singer. ''New Yorker'', 21 May, 30–31. Account of a reunion of some of the cast and crew of {{NM}}’s 1987 film, ''Tough Guys ...ovel, you try to keep the navigator going. . . On a given day, if you take a wrong turn you can lose six months.}}
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  • ...Press'', 12 February. Quotes [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] on ''The Deer Park: A Play'' ([[67.13]]), and mentions his forthcoming novel, ''Why Are We in Vie
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  • ...''The Deer Park'' is a journey through torment. It would be a better book, a greater book, if the journey were even more terrible. I held back on Marion
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  • ...sue ''The Naked and the Dead'' ([[48.2]]) in hardcover and softcover, with a new introduction by Mailer, to coincide with the novel’s 50th anniversary
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  • ...ntry with all sorts of hideous things wrong with us, or are we essentially a bad country with lots of superficially positive aspects?”
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  • ...asure. A very difficult sound and letter. I don’t feel it yet, I just have a hint.
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  • ...e 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Night at Elaine’s]]
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  • ...uns are personifications of human {{LJ:er}}s. Again s. At the beginning of a word it is society generally—at the end it is plurals which are continuat
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  • ...ld guess in women than in men because men have a reverse social need—to be a good lover. Which is why, in America, the war between the sexes deepends (d
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  • ...e 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Late Lunch]]
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  • ...d, “A journalist is a man obsessed with finding the truth in order to tell a lie.”
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  • Gregory Bellow is a retired psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist who specialized in work with children. He is a graduate of the College and the
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  • ...get mad when you miss,” noting that when someone nails a club fighter with a good punch, he wakes up and begins to fight in earnest.
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  • ...and polarities would disappear. {{NM}} knew that this final resolution was a distant event, and therefore resisted the Emersonian tendency to make one o
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  • ...ailer’s full reply: “To work on a novel….Just those five words, to work on a novel.”
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  • ...y felt at the time.{{refn|In the margin, {{NM}} wrote {{ins|Expand}}.}} As a wild extra, déjà vu may have reality—the soul may actually be capable o
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  • ...ways asking ourselves, if we have total liberty. And only a king has it or a beggar—each because they are outside the laws of society. (Power-mad peop
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  • ...ow what I’m up to. I’m not burning with a mission. I’m free to move.” Rpt: A slightly truncated version appeared earlier in Nova (London), March, 106-7,
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  • ...work published by HarperCollins as well as two Sherlock Holmes novels and a short story, all published by Signet/New American Library.
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  • ...ngs'', was completed under the direction of Christopher Ricks and includes a critical edition of the second chapter of Mailer's ancient Egyptian novel,
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  • ...Creative Writing Workshop. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English with a minor in Southern history, and is the award-winning author of three novels:
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  • ...York Report”), p. 21. Advance excerpt from [[97.13]]. Rpt: Appearing about a week before 97.13, this brief excerpt from chapter 29 deals with Christ’s
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  • | rowspan="2" | 2 || A Messenger from the Casino || 7,805 || | A Runner from the Gaming Room || || 7,066
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  • ...uous. But note the trick: erectile tissue and rectal tissue. (Your cock is a piece of shit. Oh, those doctors, and what they did to people’s nervous s
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  • ...Essentially a long review of ''Marilyn'' ([[73.30]]), this piece includes a few quotes from [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]], including his comment that the fi
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  • ...ks of poetry, a previous collection of essays, and a memoir. He has edited a critical book on James and an anthology of contemporary poetry.
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  • ...ces combat, a few firefights and skirmishes. After the war ends he becomes a cook in occupied Japan. He is promoted to Tech 5 and becomes head cook, but
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  • ...nder the protection of the police and are holed up after they’ve committed a crime.” He added that the working title is “The Maf Boys.”
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  • ...hat he is a “cop hater” by noting it is “too small a role,” but that being a cop lover is “cancer gulch.” Rpt: [[14.3]].
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  • ...mother-father embodiment—who but a sibling substitute could be better for a mother-father embodiment?) I don’t like it, and I steer away from approac
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  • ...es'', 31 July, 29. Account of a fight between [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] and a member of the cast of ''Maidstone''. See [[68.14]], [[68.15]], [[68.16a]],
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  • ...–12. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, November. {{NM}}’s preface is also a eulogy for Vassi, who was passionately devoted to all varieties of sex, and
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  • ...2008. Bill teaches creative writing and book art in the prison. He is also a musician whose work has appeared in film, video, and on stage.
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  • ...eedings, later assembled in a booklet, with a preface by Bockris, titled ''A Buddhist Apocalypse Banquet with Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, William Bur
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  • ...er said that he and Capote are thieves for taking money for writing: “He’s a bigger thief than I am. He’s like Hertz and I’m like Avis.”
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  • as a boy, the new housing project,<br /> poverty just a spelling word.<br /><br />
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  • ...good sign. Perhaps the Seconal{{LJ:Seconal}} I took with the Lipton’s has a good effect. Anyway, let me see how much of it I can remember, recast, and
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  • Jerome Loving is Distinguished Professor of English at Texas A&M University. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, he is the author of numerous
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  • ...that even a punk like Gilmore has a piece of God’s substance. He contains a portion of that profoundly mysterious impulse.”
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  • ...Rpt: The entire issue was republished with a preface by Lee Eisenberg and a foreword by Phillip Moffitt: New York: Villard Books, 1984. See [[62.12]].
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  • ...get very tired. I suspect because I have something here. Nothing less than a new dictionary. I wonder if dictionary compliers are not actually scholars
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  • ...ty in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Previously, he was Chairperson of a 5 person hospital based group in the greater Boston area and Associate Clin
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  • ...nly left Nice and Not-Nice. The concentration camps have given us a bit of a stir. Today we have normal and neurotic with an occasional suggestion of ev
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  • ...art 1, “Early Years, Early Training,” of “The Alpha Manuscript”) describes a lunch at “21.” In the final version, Mailer makes several small but sig
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  • ...inatra as unhappy as it makes me.” “Talking with David Frost” aired on PBS a week later on 24 January. See [[92.3]].
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  • ...ler|Mailer]]. A day in the life of candidate Mailer, with brief quotes and a profile highlighting his Jersey Shore roots.
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  • speaking at a rowdy University which someone threw a burning
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  • ...m, unless one is also inviolate, private, and insulated, and so seeks such a non-mate.
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  • ...how he had enjoyed the experience. He replied, ‘Once a philosopher, twice a pervert.{{' "}}
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  • ''Managing Mailer'' is a work about a minor politician written by a man who
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  • ...ments of history. And to this one must add multiple time. Which means that a “system” of thought which attempts to take into account “movements”
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  • ...film critic of ''The Atlantic'', ''The Boston Phoenix'', ''New York'', and a film critic at ''The New Yorker''. His books include ''Great Books'' and ''
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  • ...WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio affiliate. He is currently at work on a biography of the novelist James Salter.
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  • Dear George,<ref>[[w:George Lea|George Lea]] was a writer friend of {{NM}}’s.</ref> ...days, I just feel wrung out, worn down, near to written out, scared, like a semi-final fighter at the end of six rounds with two big ones to go. You kn
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  • ...ital. Indeed, that is why there is not to my knowledge a single example of a talented writer who did better work after his analysis. The rebel in him wa
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  • ...novels I shall have to take what is essentially a moment and swell it into a book.
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  • ...mosphere: “Scarcely could a discussion of literature proceed for more than a quarter of an hour, it seemed, without turning sharply and decisively polit
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  • ...himself as a creator…. McVeigh, or whoever did the bombing, is a symbol of a destroyer.”
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  • ...) “received my best and worst reviews….It helps to have a firm ego in such a situation.”
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  • ...left relatively unmoved by it. So it is not merely that physical action of a depressant or stimulant which causes new states, but rather the {{ins|“}}
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  • ...Dance'' is reported: “a disappointing $421,390.” The film went on to make a profit. See [[84.17]], 1986 and 1987 entries.
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  • ...ward genius or psychosis, and with his fabulous intuitions he sensed dimly a long time ago that the heart of the enigma of life can be found here.
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  • ...omes slowed up as in Lipton’s. Only, with what a difference. One speaks in a state of deep receptivity to social danger.
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  • ...o human alive—not to mention other kinds of life—is ever simply a giver or a taker, but giving and taking predominate in various parts of the person. ...stored as fat. As a corollary of this, the act of going on a diet bespeaks a profound desire to alter one’s approach to life.
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  • A curtain that never falls. While the Playbill attends a memorable ceremony:
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  • ...that people who read mystery stories are probably strong {{LJ:S}}-men with a powerful {{LJ:H}} nibbling underneath.
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  • ...does leave me in a pleasant state, sort of myself without Lipton’s, but in a better mood and somewhat more sensitive. However its effects are extraordin
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  • ...e 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Tribute to Norman Mailer]]
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  • ...there was nothing more glamorous, more exciting, than the notion of being a major novelist.”
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  • ...h century medicine). Seen by the latest ‘discoveries’ of the last fifty or a hundred years, muscle cells congregate and dissipate as in turn bone cells
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  • ...eart tells them at any instant. Perhaps the difference between a saint and a psychopath is that the saint knows it is his heart which talks, and the psy
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  • ...composer, many times in New York jazz clubs.}} last night I thought he was a genius.
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  • ...ttle sick about all this and also a little mad, but I’ve got a deadline on a long piece and I’m not going to go out and march and get arrested. I just
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  • ...it so. So the present is the instantaneous social concretion permitted of a flowing love.
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  • ...an really bear to enter the world is the other premise that the analyst is a concealed psychopath, and so in attempting to treat the open psychopath an
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  • ...tallment passed a week before Mailer wrote to [[w:Vahan Gregory|Gregory]], a literary acquaintance.</ref> ...I’m banging away now in the pits of the sixth installment, trying to avoid a let-down, and reminding myself I’ve only two to go, so forgive the brevit
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  • ...rson, wrote a few pages quickly, read it over, and had a great revulsion.” A week later he looked at what he had written and “it looked more of less p
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  • ...for people, but I could never explain away difficult divorce laws. And in a way I was right. Today I would say that the slave laborers while more monst
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  • ...after the last war and have it a German camp rather than in the future in a Soviet camp. But, still, I wonder.
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  • ...is a doctoral student in English at the University of Texas at Austin and a graduate intern at the Harry Ransom Center.
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  • ...rawing him in. What preceded the depression were some half-realizations of a very personal sort about my sister and Adele,{{LJ:Adele}} and I suppose I d
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  • ...Lipton’s last night, and by now I should know that too much leaves me with a bad hangover, and disgust at all the psychopathy I uncover in myself.
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  • ...for Lipton’s soliloquies.<ref>{{NM}} did buy one, as later notes indicate. A few of the recordings can be found in the [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fa
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  • {{start|Julian Newman}} is a practicing optometrist in Tampa, Florida for forty-five years, a civil rights activist, and friend of the University of South Florida
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  • ...igions . . . A mass media for propaganda.” The transcript for the program, a revealing document, is 23 pages long.
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  • ...ced as “the American Balzac” by Remnick, and then reads from his essay “Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots” ([[77.7]]).
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  • ...d a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing. Currently, she is working on a short story collection that explores social issues within Cuba.
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  • ...hat she has a just-after-{{del|fucked}}{{ins|making-love}} look instead of a ready-to-{{del|fucked}}{{ins|making-love}} look. Thus she gives the {{del|i
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  • ..., including [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]]'s plea that it be read "as a novel by a young man who immodestly or not has tried to compound his experience and im
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  • ...around the corner, and the road-race is on. So with bullfighting which is a tableau of the vast competitiveness of life.
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  • ...humans squarely in the middle of the battle between God and the Devil. For a postscript, Rosenbaum calls Mailer for comment. Mailer obliges him by point ...know at a given moment whether you’re doing it [acting, ‘pushing back’] as a human or whether you’re being tricked by one or the other of two opposed
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  • ...erworld'': “He recreates the Italian part of the Bronx back in the 50’s in a way no one else has ever done.”
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  • ...dd that particular perversion (into words) of their thought which might be a step-hole in the wall for men to come.
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  • ...ge between a godlike Male and Female, a marriage, indeed that may not work a great deal better than the majority of ours!” Rpt: ''Living Philosophies:
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  • ...ne Print'', ''Sweet Lit'', and ''Saw Palm: Places to Stand''. She was also a finalist in the Spring 2021 ''F(r)iction'' Poetry Contest.
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  • ...cannot repress it. And weeping is often the expression of the throbbing of a thought which cannot be suppressed until the muscular tension is expressed/ ...eleased. Hence, Reich’s{{LJ:Reich}} cancer biopathy may actually have done a lot.
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  • ...of [[A Conversation with Norman Mailer|his first meeting with Mailer]] and a number of Mailer’s comments.
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  • ...worry, “My God, somebody may do it before I do it.” No fear of me becoming a saint.
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  • ...g courses.}} and two or three pages of ''Finnegans Wake''.) But if I write a great Antacid Analgesic, then I will read Joyce and be able to understand h
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  • ..., Los Angeles and of La Sapienza College, University of Rome. She has been a Fulbright scholar. She lectures in Italy and abroad and her poems have been
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  • ...xpletive) anymore. What are they going to do, come and kill me? Fine, make a martyr out of me! Make me immortal!”
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  • ...s and there was no coach out there with a gleam in his eye.” He added that a poem he submitted to ''Poetry'' had been rejected, but the rejection letter
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  • ...tence of ''[[The Deer Park]]''—“and nothing is so difficult to discover as a simple fact.” Of course. The fact has no existence—it has merely {{LJ:s
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  • ...e appeared in a variety of journals and magazines. He is currently writing a dissertation exploring the influence of Hamlet’s soliloquies on English R
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  • ...e of the craft”—in this breezy piece with a few comments on [[91.26]], and a rehearsal of the high points of Mailer’s life and career.
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  • ...M international'', ''Kentucky Poetry Review'', and ''Poetry New Zealand''. A regular at Mailer’s Gramercy Gym boxing club in the 1980s, he was born an
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  • ...antic Imagination''; and ''Wells’s “Time Machine” and “War of the Worlds”: A Critical Edition''.
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  • ...ver. [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]]’s first foreword, preface or introduction to a book by another writer. Rpt: New York: E.P. Dutton, 1968 (revised, expanded
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  • ...aceship with a few select humans, with earth no longer around, looking for a new planet.”
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  • ...what makes psychoanalysis so difficult. To understand what is going on in a patient, one must sense the four variables. (Variable, the v of air iable.)
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  • ...Mailer costumed as Ahab is this statement by Mailer: “Many a novelist has a touch of the monomaniac and Ahab is the monster of us all.”
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  • ...d Times'' and Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s ''The Ox-Bow Incident'',” but not a romance, because “D.H. Lawrence did it all when it came to romance.” Se
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  • ...ye}} on Eitel:{{LJ:Eitel}} He wanted to be a celebrity and he wanted to be a great man, and the poor finch loved both so much that he ended by being nei
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  • ...would need for the novel. I never got beyond page 3. But I wanted to write a war novel — just like Mr. Mailer. ...and tried writing the novel again. Instead of becoming a writer, I became a teacher. No novel was written.
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  • ...ty—then they would either have fought immediately or gone away. But I took a tolerant compromising line and that was intolerable to them. They had to fi ...ed by two teen-age hoodlums as I came out was a moment where angry at her, a little drunk, and feeling aggressive, I shouted at the hoodlums, “KNOCK O
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  • ....16]]. Dumas does report that {{NM}} was thinking of writing a novel about a concentration camp after finishing the sequel to ''Harlot’s Ghost'' ([[91
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  • I suspect that the form of the play is always a variation of the One, the Two, and the Three, psychically that is. To wit; |Two || One || Three || ''End as a Man''?
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  • ...h: “I knew the height of the hurdle, and I missed. I gave them [the media] a free ride.” See [[73.2]]–[[73.8]], [[73.10]], [[73.11]], [[76.10]].
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  • ...range of human consciousness is a circle, and we who are normal are merely a point on the circumference, judging everything in relation to our position,
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  • ...er ''Publishers Weekly'' contains an advertisement for the novel and gives a January publication date.
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  • ...and Fortune Cookies'', ''Death Is Birth'', and ''Thai Diary''. He has been a past recipient of two Williamsburg Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grants for po {{DEFAULTSORT:Rozwenc, Stephen A.}}
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  • ...ervative-rationalist and spiral to the radical-mystic, so I am thinking of a thousand things at once.
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  • ...ime of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/Norman Mailer: A Warrior’s Life]]
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  • ...one or two times I’ve asked for milk, the bartender gave it to me without a word. Bartenders do get sensitive to the ways in which men seek substitutes
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  • ...[[80.15]]), he said, “People have been asking me that for 10 years. I have a few answers, but don’t believe any of them.”
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  • ...et Out.’” Accompanied by a largely negative review by Deborah J. Kunk, and a full-page ad for the film. See [[84.17]], 1986 and 1987 entries.
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  • ...the choices to the best two or three possibilities. So, whatever we do at a given moment may not be the ''best'' thing we could have done, but it was a
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  • ...is healthiness. Larry [Alson] and Barbara [Alson] are takers, my father is a taker.{{LJ:Alson}} ...their own eyes,}} passive, and just as the giver feels anxiety when it is a question of receiving, so the taker has great anxiety about giving.
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  • ...ti, is included in a memorial article. Mailer says that the collection “is a work about Italians living in America that begins where ''The Godfather'' e
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  • ...his film: “a study of American passions, a horror story, a murder mystery, a comedy and offbeat.” See [[84.17]], other 1986 and 1987 entries.
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  • ...was repelled by Maloney{{refn|A writer friend of Larry Alson (1920-2016), a writer and editor who was married to Mailer’s sister Barbara, and also of
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  • ...a third of the men won’t read me either because it gets to be too much of a hassle. The wife might say, ‘What are you reading ''him'' for?’}} Major interview by a shrewd interviewer.
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  • ...is so bound to society that he cannot express himself in another way, but a part of him is always saying, “Look at me, look how ridiculous I am. If y
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  • ...t Susy{{LJ:Susan}} said to me, “What is a scientist?” and indeed it is not a question one can answer easily.
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  • ...r Minton, Putnam’s president]. Let a stranger [Richard Baron of Dial] take a bath.”
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  • ...isades. We did a TV show together, and he was blind in one eye, had to use a walker to move about and was still sensational.” See [[76.12]], [[77.11]]
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  • ...iew'' 137 (winter), 48–49. {{NM}} recounts a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a conversation between the two great Russian writers.
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  • ...sh. Hints of the basic orgiastic desire do seem to appear everywhere.) Now a few notes.
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  • ...sso ([[95.38]]), then titled “Pablo and Fernande: A Portrait of Picasso as a Young Artist.” Doubleday was then expected to publish the book (Atlantic
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  • “For a Draft of Reality, It’s Mailer Time.” Article-interview by Louise Contin .... Well, it seems to me that it was certainly an evil act. But it does take a kind of guts, finally, just to drive with that much explosives in the back
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  • ...eds to see himself as a radical, just as the all-out anarchist is at heart a passive anonymous member of the monastery. {{ins|Which is why certain anarc
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  • ...rete aspect of the spirit. Air and Hair of course seem to be the opposite. A very ambiguous letter.
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  • ...d expression. But affected people are very close to being naked; they mock a mystic experience, but by implication what they have also said is that the ...e the social disadvantages by wearing a particular form of dress, adopting a particular form of lisp or swish (word echo).
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  • James Michener Award for Fiction. A well known writer on American music as well, he won a 2004 Grammy Award for his album notes to ''Martin Scorsese
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  • {{start|Elizabeth Mailer}} is a writer and lives in New York City with her husband, Frank, and their daughter, Christina. She is currently writing a novel that
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  • ...ght, hearing my voice on the tape recorder, I noticed that a voice is like a face—all the elements on one’s personality exist in the various tones.
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  • after surviving a two-year global pilgrimage that took him overland from working with Norman Mailer on two plays and a film, his most notable
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  • ...]]) would be easier to write: “I felt like a dentist who starts putting in a filling and finds he has to redo the jaw.”
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  • ...to write a book about Provincetown….It’s full of mood. I think the mark of a good murder mystery is that it is full of mood.”
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  • ...exploration, combinations, and discoveries present in even the exchange of a word.
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  • ...ce. We have a miserable environment, and we can’t affect it. That inspires a demonic bitterness.”
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  • ...se one is crushed or becomes sadistic.) A shit-eating grin is the grin of a man who has gotten away with it, who is wielding power without having had t ...t that moment. But, also, I like him because he could come back, he wasn’t a pushover.
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  • ...hing or another, as the girl who wishes to suck and slice a thousand cocks a day.
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  • ...[Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/71|71]]. The gossip is {{del|an}}{{ins|a passive}} adventurer.
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  • ...onth and a half out to do ‘The Deer Park’ in Provincetown.” He says, “It’s a book to be read out loud; it uses language more for its sound than for what
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  • ...t is ''climbable''. Immediately it is converted in meaning to its opposite—a road, an escape.
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  • {{start|Maggie Mailer}} is a visual artist. In 2002 she founded the Storefront Artist Project in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a not-for-profit providing studio residencies
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  • ...st respect for myself. I thought, finally, that I have acted a little like a dilettante.”
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  • ...{{LJ:Johnnie}} She is potentially a great lover and hater, and actually is a much larger hater and lover than most people admit to. It is the secret of
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  • ...(as a reward perhaps for heeding the anger of the soul) and the expert is a man who uses his talents and his intelligence for the service of society.
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  • A thousand congratulations, and I’m glad that you’re now in the same boat ..., [[w:schmuck|schmuck]]? But down with [[w:Lenny Bruce|Lenny Bruce]], have a
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