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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/542
    A dick is a cock. A dike is a Lesbian.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/204
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/387
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/420
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/699
    ...ity for other people of that sort. To wit, a special kind of hostility and a special compassion.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/21
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/176
    Word echoes. I got a theory. I got a fearie. X got a fairy—fiery—fey—fury—phooie-we.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/49
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/394
    ...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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  • Robbin A. Martinelli
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/72
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/366
    ...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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  • Kristine A. Wilson
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/619
    ...y decision to respect the ebb and flow in me and not try to force a One on a Two.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/14
    ...pable of all sexual enjoyment, but the one of laying conquering hands whom a wondrous nudity.}}
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/505
    What a jewel of a word echo. Deep ends, deepens, and . . . depends.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/211
    ...to a stranger, and feel nothing consciously, nonetheless we love them with a part of ourselves.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/587
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 25, 1955/256
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/278
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 1, 1954/7
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/421
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/551
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/681
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/55
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/191
    ...very least it comes from something or it’s against something, it contains a psychological reality.
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  • 84.26a
    ...lk though that jungle like a lion, knowing all the time that you’re really a bird.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/17
    ...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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  • 82.10a
    ...“God, I think it’s a lovely piece of steel . . . it would make a honey of a stamp.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/401
    ...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.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/503
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/620
    ...Men with the name Avery are generally very much of a given thing. They are a very . . .)
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/385
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/578
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/196
    ...erish” sensitivity of southerners who for close to a century now have been a psychically underground proletariat.
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  • 84.22a
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/511
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/667
    ...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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  • Tracy Dahlby
    ...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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  • Laura Adams Dunham
    {{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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 25, 1955/259
    ...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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  • Bill Lowenburg
    ...ler. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and works as a high school librarian.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/244
    ...'' far away. Not to mention hooks and slices. They must be very painful to a one-balled man.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/684
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/311
    ...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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  • 87.7
    ...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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  • 62.13
    =====“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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/197
    ...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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  • 07.22
    ...steak knife, an error that a competent reporter could have eliminated with a modicum of research.
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  • 95.22
    ...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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  • 87.10b
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/135
    ...of the intellectual consequence—he would have to set out to be a genius or a saint.)
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  • 67.5
    ..., including Mailer’s statement on his refusal to get into a shelter during a New York City air raid drill.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/405
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/649
    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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/507
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/423
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/630
    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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  • 95.8a
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/103
    ...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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  • J. C. Campbell
    ...''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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  • Denise Pappas
    ...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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  • 91.32
    ..., 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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  • Peter Levenda
    {{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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  • 89.1
    ...work at least 200 days a year, maybe 250. I write about five or six pages a day.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/527
    ...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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  • 78.2a
    ...t [[w:Gary Gilmore (criminal)|Gary Gilmore]], the executed murderer. “It’s a new angle,” he said.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/611
    ...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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  • 63.31a
    ...s debut, which he said was “the closest a middle-aged man can get to being a bullfighter.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/323
    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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  • 69.1a
    ...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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  • James Taylor
    ...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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  • 03.13
    ...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
    767 bytes (109 words) - 18:35, 13 March 2019
  • 00.6
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/146
    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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  • 60.10f
    ...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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  • 88.9a
    ...]]), 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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  • Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/June 3, 1955
    ...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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  • 61.21b
    ...ountry becomes, if its art becomes as sick as its architecture, you’ve got a sick giant.”
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  • Peter Alson
    {{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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/575
    ...the white man as a god. He is a god, but he is the god of society, and so a false-but necessary god.
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  • 08.5
    ...with Norman Mailer]].” By [[Michael Chaiken]]. ''Mailer Review'', 407–420. A discerning interview with {{NM}} on his films.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/395
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/522
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/683
    ...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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  • Christopher Hitchens
    ...is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything'' (2007), was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007.
    630 bytes (83 words) - 09:54, 21 May 2022
  • Marc Triplett
    {{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
    616 bytes (88 words) - 08:01, 24 May 2022
  • 07.29
    ...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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  • 67.6
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/58
    ...''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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  • 98.2
    ...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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  • 91.35
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/375
    ...asure. A very difficult sound and letter. I don’t feel it yet, I just have a hint.
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  • The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Night at Elaine’s
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/595
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/504
    ...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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  • The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Late Lunch
    ...e 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Late Lunch]]
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/392
    ...d, “A journalist is a man obsessed with finding the truth in order to tell a lie.”
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  • Gregory Bellow
    Gregory Bellow is a retired psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist who specialized in work with children. He is a graduate of the College and the
    523 bytes (77 words) - 09:32, 17 November 2019
  • 00.5
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/526
    ...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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  • 74.1
    ...ailer’s full reply: “To work on a novel….Just those five words, to work on a novel.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/190
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/538
    ...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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  • 69.78
    ...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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  • Wayne Worcester
    ...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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  • Nicole DePolo
    ...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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  • Janis Owens
    ...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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  • 97.8
    ...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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  • An American Dream Expanded/Word Count Comparison, Esquire and Dial Press Editions
    | rowspan="2" | 2 || A Messenger from the Casino || 7,805 || | A Runner from the Gaming Room || || 7,066
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/519
    ...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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  • 73.36
    ...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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  • Philip Brady
    ...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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  • 1945
    ...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
    937 bytes (143 words) - 09:12, 1 December 2018
  • 67.11a
    ...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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  • 61.2
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/414
    ...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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  • 68.16
    ...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]],
    519 bytes (61 words) - 13:42, 16 December 2018
  • 92.11
    ...–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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  • Bill Taft
    ...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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  • 86.41
    ...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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  • 67.4a
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/216
    ...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
    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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  • 79.20a
    ...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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  • 83.54
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/389
    ...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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  • C. Dean Pappas
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/544
    ...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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  • 89.10
    ...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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  • 92.2
    ...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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  • 69.49
    ...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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  • 72.21a
    speaking at a rowdy University which someone threw a burning
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/91
    ...m, unless one is also inviolate, private, and insulated, and so seeks such a non-mate.
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  • 87.10a
    ...how he had enjoyed the experience. He replied, ‘Once a philosopher, twice a pervert.{{' "}}
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  • Statement for Managing Mailer
    ''Managing Mailer'' is a work about a minor politician written by a man who
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/668
    ...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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  • David Denby
    ...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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  • John J. Winters
    ...WBUR, Boston’s National Public Radio affiliate. He is currently at work on a biography of the novelist James Salter.
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  • George Lea, March 17, 1964
    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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/277
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/357
    ...novels I shall have to take what is essentially a moment and swell it into a book.
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  • 86.27a
    ...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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  • 95.23
    ...himself as a creator…. McVeigh, or whoever did the bombing, is a symbol of a destroyer.”
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  • 83.23
    ...) “received my best and worst reviews….It helps to have a firm ego in such a situation.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/610
    ...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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  • 87.27
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/288
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/330
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/325
    ...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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  • The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Mailer at the Théâtre Du Grand Guignol
    A curtain that never falls. While the Playbill attends a memorable ceremony:
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 25, 1955/274
    ...that people who read mystery stories are probably strong {{LJ:S}}-men with a powerful {{LJ:H}} nibbling underneath.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/622
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/12
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  • The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/A Tribute to Norman Mailer
    ...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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  • 00.12b
    ...there was nothing more glamorous, more exciting, than the notion of being a major novelist.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/615
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 25, 1955/265
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/175
    ...composer, many times in New York jazz clubs.}} last night I thought he was a genius.
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  • 68.18
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/495
    ...it so. So the present is the instantaneous social concretion permitted of a flowing love.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/51
    ...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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  • Vahan Gregory, March 16, 1964
    ...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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  • 68.8b
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/545
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/471
    ...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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  • Molly Hardy
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 27, 1955/315
    ...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 Journal/January 3, 1955/161
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/128
    ...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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  • Julian Newman
    {{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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  • 61.21a
    ...igions . . . A mass media for propaganda.” The transcript for the program, a revealing document, is 23 pages long.
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  • 00.11
    ...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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  • Betty Viamontes
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/188
    ...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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  • 48.4
    ..., 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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/48
    ...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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  • 03.10
    ...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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  • 99.0
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/663
    ...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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  • 89.11
    ...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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  • Gabrielle Grilli
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/694
    ...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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  • 76.21b
    ...of [[A Conversation with Norman Mailer|his first meeting with Mailer]] and a number of Mailer’s comments.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/138
    ...worry, “My God, somebody may do it before I do it.” No fear of me becoming a saint.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/574
    ...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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  • Daniela Feliciani
    ..., 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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  • 07.11
    ...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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  • 04.11
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/491
    ...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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  • James R. Fleming
    ...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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  • 91.44
    ...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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  • Sal Cetrano
    ...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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  • Frank D. McConnell
    ...antic Imagination''; and ''Wells’s “Time Machine” and “War of the Worlds”: A Critical Edition''.
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  • 61.23
    ...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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  • 07.9
    ...aceship with a few select humans, with earth no longer around, looking for a new planet.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/628
    ...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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  • 95.42
    ...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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  • 84.6
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/108
    ...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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  • The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/Tributes to Norman Mailer/From a Novelist in Waiting
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/412
    ...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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  • 95.25
    ....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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 22, 1955/685
    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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  • 73.18
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/22
    ...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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  • 64.6
    ...er ''Publishers Weekly'' contains an advertisement for the novel and gives a January publication date.
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  • Stephen A. Rozwenc
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/563
    ...ervative-rationalist and spiral to the radical-mystic, so I am thinking of a thousand things at once.
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  • The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/Norman Mailer: A Warrior’s Life
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/639
    ...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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  • 83.10a
    ...[[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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  • 87.17
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/607
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/217
    ...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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  • 94.4
    ...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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  • 86.32
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/358
    ...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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  • 97.24a
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/279
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 1, 1954/6
    ...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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  • 65.5
    ...r Minton, Putnam’s president]. Let a stranger [Richard Baron of Dial] take a bath.”
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  • 66.14
    ...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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  • 95.56a
    ...iew'' 137 (winter), 48–49. {{NM}} recounts a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a conversation between the two great Russian writers.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 27, 1955/318
    ...sh. Hints of the basic orgiastic desire do seem to appear everywhere.) Now a few notes.
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  • 93.4
    ...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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  • 95.26
    “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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/291
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/382
    ...rete aspect of the spirit. Air and Hair of course seem to be the opposite. A very ambiguous letter.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/209
    ...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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  • Tom Piazza
    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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  • Elizabeth Mailer
    {{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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/329
    ...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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  • Stephan Morrow
    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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  • 79.13a
    ...]]) 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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  • 84.14
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/101
    ...exploration, combinations, and discoveries present in even the exchange of a word.
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  • 69.8
    ...ce. We have a miserable environment, and we can’t affect it. That inspires a demonic bitterness.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/635
    ...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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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/194
    ...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, 1954/87
    ...[Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/71|71]]. The gossip is {{del|an}}{{ins|a passive}} adventurer.
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  • 67.14
    ...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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  • Maggie Mailer
    {{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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  • 83.27a
    ...st respect for myself. I thought, finally, that I have acted a little like a dilettante.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/584
    ...{{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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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/66
    ...(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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  • Don Carpenter, June 1, 1964
    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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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/540
    ...short the same as the gray lot of the English themselves. Get a ripper or a fag on the Throne of England and the PM starts the abdication apparatus.
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  • 87.6
    ...fe at this time is to write a book, direct a movie, and so on.” Mailer was a juror in the film competition. See [[84.17]], 1986 and 1987 entries.
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  • 83.55
    ...Robinson, [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] talked about cats and other matters at a pre-fundraiser luncheon. He tells the reporter that his first murder myster
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/333
    ...face. What keeps him from having our admiration is that the businessman is a good businessman insofar as he is all psychopath and no saint. He uses intu ...ep out of the self which knows we are all a part of the whole) but even as a perversion it reflects the echo of the H. One other difference between psyc
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  • 95.35
    ...ief piece based on an interview at {{NM}}’s Brooklyn Heights apartment. In a somewhat valedictory mood, he says, ...tive work that could have helped define America, and as a result we’re not a nation that has characteristics or form.}}
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  • 62.9
    ...nie and I both love a mystery,” Mailer says, “and that’s why we’re keeping a firm secret on the little matter—whether we’re married or not.” See [
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  • 02.6
    ...s a huge war shaping, in which you’ve got—let me speak like a Jamaican for a moment—we’ve got Allah versus the Almighty Dollah.}}
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/411
    ...uctantly, lightly, teasingly. He has no real desire to cut a hole or smash a head.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/50
    ...ich interests me. So if I am interested, I can learn an enormous amount in a week or two weeks. If I am not interested I can spend years and never reall
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 25, 1955/262
    ...looks hale and hearty and handsome, a dapper little guy who’s always been a gentleman and never hurt anybody except as he was forced to reluctantly in
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/340
    ..., more unpredictable in their tiny wild actions (Herbert Aldendorff){{refn|A New York City psychoanalyst. Connection to {{NM}} unknown.}} and Bob gets m
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  • 67.19
    ...formal style in 67.15 for one that has been described as “Joyce gone hip,” a “pure American” style.
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  • Eugene Cullen Kennedy
    in Chicago, the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, a former syndicated columnist, and a friend of Norman Mailer’s for thirty-seven
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  • 79.33a
    ..., “This is like going to communion.” Mailer replied, “You must have sinned a lot.” Asked if he was writing another book, he said, “Always. That’s
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/207
    ...ll her an office wife. Rather, she is the Confidante, and what men seek in a secretary is the woman to who all can be told. In proportion as the secreta ...nd a woman who have been good close friends for years can rarely strike up a good fuck—they have become instead mutual boss and secretary.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/443
    ...ke. This is no mere crank attitude of mine. (A crank is a mystic frozen at a given point. All his energy to go on, to discover more, is blocked, and so ...assivity, taking, with all the passion of Giving. Ergo, Lulu{{LJ:Lulu}} is a miser.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/84
    ...ome sense of how he thinks, and what his battle is. For Beda is not merely a social satyr, he is also an adventurer.
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  • 98.11b
    .... “There’s no sense writing a second volume if it’s not as good; it’s like a broken promise. I think I know how to do it.”
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  • 66.2
    ...Magazine'', 6 February, 12, 72, 74–80. Partial transcript of a meeting of a Theatre for Ideas panel consisting of Irving Kristol, Staughton Lynd, Arthu
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  • 98.11a
    ...tion, inspired primarily by resistance to the Vietnam War.” It was “always a bit provisional” and grew out of “the genuine outrage of youth . . . Bu
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  • 11.1
    ...later years: “I could not have been the writer I am today and been more of a father to you.” Michael answered, “I’d take quality over quantity any
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  • Susan Mailer
    ...alytic Association of Santiago where she is also a faculty member. She has a private practice and supervises in Santiago, Chile. Her memoir ''In Another
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/243
    ...great enough, ''nothing'' will come out. Life is pure depression. What is a more usual case is that the writer advances slowly against his sociostasis, ...force of creativity, vitality, and rebellion in the individual.}} would be a much better word)—Now, I’ve got it.
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  • Kate Mailer
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  • 02.9
    ...iler feels may be the cause of the American malaise. The piece begins with a highlighted Mailer quote from the conversation: ...st of all, too much patriotism. Patriotism in a country that’s failing has a logical tendency to turn fascistic.}}
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  • 64.4
    ...t Three: A Messenger from the Maniac.” ''Esquire'', March, 89–92, 144–150. A summary by ''Esquire'' editors of the first two installments is found on 14
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  • 74.7
    ...Day at the Colony'', a 1994 booklet published by the Colony. A quarter of a century later, Mailer again drew on his speech for the foreword to ''The Ti
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  • 70.11
    ...nd.” He characterizes Nixon’s fears of losing the war as “the babblings of a Chekovian character.” See [[68.8]], [[70.8]]–[[70.10]].
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/302
    ...borate. Cities are built, work-cooperation is intense. But mammals who are a far higher form of life as we classify them, and indeed they undoubtedly ar ...The ant has the T at the end. It is close to being a thing. We are always a little repelled by the ant because its social organization is too high, too
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/564
    ...the note on the box literature said that “nasal congestion” was sometimes a side-effect. This morning I have nasal congestion. ...get a bad cold in the future, I am going to try Lipton’s and see if it is a cure.
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  • Andrew M. Gordon
    been a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature in Spain, Portugal, and Serbia, a Visiting Professor in Russia, Hungary, and Argentina, and a keynote
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/218
    ...e refuge. A clean feeling of work comes over me at the thought that I have a full day to give to the journal and do not have to rush around. It is my wa
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/347
    ...of shock and a little outrage, the white-haired lady said, “But it’s over a hundred years old.” I sensed immediately that it was deeply upsetting to ...lly, after a little indecision and fumbling, she reached forward and chose a piece of candy from the rack. Truly, sweets are the great unrecognized drug
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  • Bob Batchelor
    .... He is the founding editor of the ''Popular Culture Studies Journal'' and a member of the editorial advisory board of ''The Journal of Popular Culture'
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 10, 1955/558
    ...ife worked on several projects simultaneously. Even when deep into writing a long work like ''[[Ancient Evenings]]'' ({{date|1983}}), he interrupted it ...ng itself rather than its issue or product. One reason I have gone at such a great rate in this journal is that I have not been much concerned with publ
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/548
    ...at courage might also consist of giving. Which is why he probably lives in a cloudy mystical state and reads universes into every cliché and half parab
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  • 71.13
    ...ion, which he calls “the most depressing event in American letters in many a year.” See [[71.11]], [[71.12]], [[71.21]].
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  • 07.4
    ...a great possibility that Hitler was a first or second degree incestuary,” a word Mailer made up for the novel. He added, “I’m never going to be rev
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  • 91.31a
    ...t when I haven’t wondered if I could do this,” keep writing. “I think I am a very good writer. Great writers change your life. Very good writers alter i
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  • 84.27b
    ...come the Republicans’ greatest unwitting friend.” He added that J.F.K. was a great candidate because he was an existentialist: “You simply didn’t kn
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/516
    ...But, actually, if I could carry it far enough, there would be a Three and a Four and so forth, until one could say people are potentially n-sexual or e ...939), a British doctor who wrote extensively on human sexuality, including a six-volume work, ''Studies in the Psychology of Sex'', published from 1897-
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  • 72.0
    ...t equivalent of fascism.” The journalist notes that “Mailer came across as a man submerged in debt, tired of crowds and the entourage” surrounding him
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/202
    ...style—Mexico arrives late on the stage of history in its attempt to found a civilization. So its heroes can never satisfy the Mexicans, for their cynic
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/182
    ...our I don’t want you looking at the set.” Right now he is giving a show in a pool at Miami Beach and the total effect is openly orgiastic.
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  • 03.25
    ...d, “I expect us to be considerably better as a theatrical ensemble than as a basketball team.”
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  • Foreword to Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer
    {{DISPLAYTITLE:Foreword to ''Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer''}} ...<ref>From {{cite book |last=Krim |first=Seymour |date=1961 |title=Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer |url= |location=New York |publisher=Excelsior Press P
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/653
    ...the Hindus may be right and just like the fucking army one comes back from a patrol merely to be put on K.P. Which introduces reason and the sup. ...there is no life after death and so one must do all one can now. To build a society one must believe in zero after death. Hence the sup while punishing
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  • 86.38
    ...try not to think of a plot—I am much more concerned with character. But in a movie the plot is the motor, it is essential. It took me two months to writ
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/596
    To understand a neurotic one would approach it better if one saw neurotic symptoms as malfu ...give with a part of ourselves, we take with another part; as we make with a part of ourselves, we destroy with another part, as we rest, so we are acti
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    ...in World War II. The leading characters are an American Jewish doctor and a German doctor who confront each other and clash over contending philosophie
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  • 86.11
    ...in his favor.” Mailer, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer and Cynthia Macdonald (a PEN executive board member) are quoted. {{PEN}}
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/636
    ...schlumper, an apologetic lump. Fuck it if people don’t like me, think I’m a dude. These days, more and more, I feel like I’m terrific, and about time ...pair of slacks I bought in the fag store have one pocket within the other, a practical arrangement, but I wondered why. Now I know. It’s like two ball
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  • D. A. Pennebaker
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/286
    Dialogue: Yesterday, Hiram Haydn{{refn|A prominent figure in the postwar New York literary world, and longtime edito Haydn: (Pause) You’ll have to forgive me, Norman. My manners are a little off today.</blockquote>
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/399
    ...r depression is due to the fact that they are still waiting for X. Once in a while I think Howe suspects it may be me. But this could be sheer vanity.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/415
    A lay analyst. He is a layman. The Layman is the fucker. The expert does without fucking. So, depe
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/482
    ...when you know reason is most reasonable, why you want and even believe in a good society when you think people are insignificant, stupid, hopeless, cru ...m somewhere, something, be it myself or the universe, but these ideas have a psychological reality ''which one cannot ignore''. For if one does, one ent
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  • 64.7
    ...sert.” ''Esquire'', June, 114–116, 148—149. The installment is followed by a note which ends, “The Dial Press will publish ''An American Dream'' in th
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/222
    ...f my life (which was the best) came when I was thirteen and wrestling with a boy.
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  • 88.12
    ...'' ([[84.17]]), and spoke of his film and his Jewishness: “Being Jewish is a whole inner way of life, and the Holocaust took away any possibility of tel
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  • 63.15
    ...12, 165-70, 172-74. Statements written for ''Playboy'' and read as part of a 22 September 1962 public debate in Chicago. Rpt: [[63.37]], [[65.14]] (part
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/549
    ...t but I become more stimulated than anyone else. (Everybody passes through a brief period of stimulation on Lipton’s before relapsing into passivity, ...at, I as a Giver surround myself with Takers. What Giver doesn’t? And only a few friendships have been with Givers—First Devlin,{{LJ:Devlin}} the pecu
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  • 74.15
    ...al endorsement of Javits, “the personification of a great legislator,” for a fourth term as Senator from New York.
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  • 07.5
    ...ys, “I wasn’t trying to make this a railroad track as to how Hitler became a monster.” Mailer also talks about the unconscious: ...ide this. I decided it on my own. But it’s as if the unconscious taps into a deeper well of knowledge that we possess. And it’s immensely reluctant to
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  • Robert Guffey
    ...uate of the famed Clarion Writers Workshop in Seattle, he has also written a collection of novellas entitled ''Spies & Saucers'' (PS Publishing, 2014).
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  • 82.6
    ...titled ''My Return'' (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1987), which consists of a play about the killing of Richard Adan, several appendices of self-justific
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  • 03.1
    ...ore reality. Given the reality you are trying to uncover, you have to find a new way to go at it.}}
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  • 83.6a
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/613
    ...us tries to reach another.” It’s the best line he ever wrote. I wonder if a cigarette is not indeed the bridge of sighs which goes nowhere.
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  • 76.21
    ...ft of the screenplay, but because of financial problems he never completed a final version and the film was produced by Paul Gregory for Warner Brothers
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/621
    Here we go again. A very good weekend, a very happy emotional exhausting and refreshing weekend, and what was good a ..., oceans of piss, thunder ranges of shit, lustility and hoffection, and in a way I learned more about Dan and Rhoda in one night than I’ve learned abo
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  • Harvey Breit, February 11, 1964
    Dear Harvey,<ref>Mailer became friendly with [[w:Harvey Breit|Harvey Breit]], a reporter and novelist who spent summers on Cape Cod. Breit profiled him in ...e ill humor of being written out, smoked out, hung over, and in a bitch of a mood about the novel. But I write to you anyway because I wanted to say hel
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/43
    ...mmon-sense, common-sense being finally the matter-of-fact understanding of a society (which is of course bad), but also is understandable. It is worldly ...ost perfect glee is that the psychoanalyst is a psychopath masquerading as a quiet restrained “sensitive” mildly neurotic, middle-class-adjusted hum
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  • 68.6a
    ...uered the American spirit and established a totalitarianism of the middle, a mediocrity of vision. There has been an absence of interesting or exciting
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/201
    ...s interview, and the one preceding it, “The Metaphysics of the Belly,” are a mature ramifying of the jottings in “Lipton’s.” See also Richard Poir
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/644
    ...elope. The man is a woman in man’s envelope—Toby{{refn|Toby Schneebaum was a homosexual neighbor of Mailer’s.}} for instance. ...who likes to prong others. For such a homosexual like the dike has set up a Chinese wall against the waters of wombivity. Their active “male” givin
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  • 10.2
    ...tters to her. Rpt: [[11.4]],<ref>See “[[From A Ticket to the Circus|From ''A Ticket to the Circus'']].”</ref> and [[14.3]] (partial in both).
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  • 69.9
    ...er and a Member of S.D.S. Seeking Posts on Harvard’s Board of Overseers in a Poll of Alumni.” Article by Robert M. Smith. ''New York Times'', 21 April
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  • 92.3
    ...levision, Goodman says: “There is a high intelligence operating along with a sometimes original perspective; at his most engaging, he manages to be off
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  • The Mailer Review/Volume 2, 2008/The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer/The Towering and the Dead
    ...cumstances in the last twenty hours or so. So, here it is, a bit less than a “full field.” ...h a natural of the highest order, and an earner — one who has left us with a literary legacy that can only be observed as towering.
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  • 03.15
    ...half their soul. Evel Knievel is the other half. An average American with a deep Christian faith is an oxymoron.”
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  • 99.7
    ...s what is most immediately useful politically to say.” The article is also a review of the new Mailer biography by Mary Dearborn ([[99.8]]), and include
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/592
    ...for the first time we were in Trenton, and what I saw on a neon sign above a factory was, “TRENTON MAKES, THE WORLD TAKES.” And I pondered this, and ...(And is indeed the word of rest. A period is the enforced rest of society. A child speaks in rambling spirals, it says, and then and then and then and t
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  • 1941
    {{NM}} takes a two-semester writing course (1940–1941) from Robert Gorham Davis, who bec ...ety, a merit-based luncheon club. In September, completes "No Percentage", a novel (408 manuscript pages) set in Long Branch and Brooklyn, still unpubli
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/227
    ...l?) should be a prison-break which is frustrated, and becomes no more than a hold-out war with hostages in the attempt to get reforms. The two movements
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  • 91.12
    ...you won’t misrepresent him.” Also revealed is the price of the novel: $30, a new high for hardcover fiction.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/446
    ...er, husbanding his genius. To Theodore Reik he said, “Reik, you want to be a big man, make your mark, piss in one spot!”{{refn|An American psychologis
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  • John W. Aldridge, June 8, 1965
    ...y and have fun on weekends. So feel ready to come any weekend at all. With a little warning we’re bound to have an extra room. ...illips]] made, they broke the cadence of your style. So I called him up in a huff and he’s going to reprint your piece in toto in the next issue.
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  • 97.25
    ...mon. ''Culturefront'' 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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  • 03.6
    ...fore I started ''The Naked and the Dead'' I was convinced I was through as a writer, that my best writing was behind me, and that’s repeated in every
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  • 97.23c
    ...e “told intermittently well, and there are some extraordinary moments, but a lot of the time, it just doesn’t work.” He also criticizes his ex-wife ...sed me. She’s not a stupid woman and I just thought she could have written a better book.}}
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  • 87.2a
    ...n you direct, he continues, you use all of your body and mind for 15 hours a day. You are constantly being interrupted, “yet it fills you with energy.
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  • 04.7a
    ...nd that the possibilities would be limited. “Our love of plot comes out of a need to show the cause and effect that our lives often do not have.”
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  • 14.3
    ...ludes an introduction, 90 pages of notes, a select secondary bibliography, a list of Mailer’s books, and an index. See [[04.7]].
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  • 84.1
    ...e who are obsessed by film. The production is an interesting idea, made by a man who didn't know how to make movies". See [[81.19]], [[84.3]].
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  • 66.1
    ...(untitled) begin: “Your idea of sucking cock” and “Mr. Answer Man what is a weapon.” Rpt: [[66.11]].
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  • 89.12
    ...t on a disagreement between {{NM}} and Jay Presson Allen, author of “Tru,” a one-man Broadway play about Truman Capote, starring Robert Morse.
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  • 79.13
    ...ay and you have to be centrally located.” Rpt: As “Up Off the Canvas, with a Troubled Look Ahead,” ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', 25 October, Sec. D, pp.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/80
    ...said. It’s true. The human race, the human contest is society, it is only a part of humanity. There is an explanation in this for our love of sports an
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  • Matthew Mailer
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  • Reed Whittemore, October 15, 1963
    ...Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|the perils of Pauline]]. Could you send me a copy of the symposium when it comes out?
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  • Lipton’s Journal/Correspondence of Robert Lindner and Norman Mailer/April 22, 1955
    ...getting ''The Deer Park'' ready for the printer and I’m typing this out in a hurry.
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  • 07.19
    ...{NM}} says that he “used to enjoy a fight,” but now sees them as using up “a lot of the little working time I probably have left.”
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  • Carol Dine
    ...St. Botolph Club Foundation and the Bitter Oleander Press. Carol has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, the Virginia Center for C
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  • 64.3
    ...11–112, 114. Title changed to “A Runner from the Gaming Room” in [[65.7]]. A summary by ''Esquire'' editors of the first installment is found on 125.
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  • 69.37
    ...May date for this number of Pousto is assumed. The article is built around a 24 April appearance by Mailer and Breslin at Yeshiva University. Alice Krak
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  • 03.3
    .... Contains some brief quotes from {{NM}} as he nears 80. Asked why he does a crossword puzzle and plays solitaire every morning, he said, “You have to
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  • Lawrence Grobel
    {{start|Lawrence Grobel}} has been a freelance writer for more than thirty years. He ...opolitan'', ''Penthouse'', ''Diversion'', ''Writer’s Digest''. He has been a contributing editor at ''Playboy'' since 1980. ''Playboy''
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  • The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Always
    A fallen priest on a shuttle flight an earnest but dubious intention, like a boy
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  • 98.14
    ...rld War was a watershed. Everything is of it, before it or after it. It is a point of reference. It’s still my point of reference.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/466
    ...velist and that accounts for his strength. And his weakness. He feels such a responsibility. I have the happier irresponsibility of the crook-physicist.
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  • 01.7
    ...so damned intelligent. I wasn’t used to working with someone who might be a lot brighter than I am.”
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  • Michael Nixon
    ...unpublished memoir, ''Nowhere Else to Go: Parris Island and the Making of a Marine''.
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  • 08.7
    ...vertising. Mailer also called for the elimination of the copper penny, and a law forbidding doctors to be sued for malpractice.
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  • 78.4
    ...oyevsky’s ''The Brothers Karamazov'', and about a quarter as good. If it’s a quarter as good, it’s good enough.” See [[78.5]], [[79.2]], [[79.3]], [
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  • 55.8
    ...list.” Finally, he notes that “the virtue I should most like to achieve as a writer is to be genuinely disturbing,” and to “serve as the gadfly to c
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  • 62.5
    ...to be a bit of a physical experience to read this book. You’ll have to do a lot of thumbing to find things. The book will be dog-eared, what every auth
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  • 95.33
    ...ortrait of Picasso as a Young Man'' ([[95.38]]). Solomon leads {{NM}} into a thoughtful discussion of the young Picasso, sex, narcissism, science and pa ...ely detest what I am trying to do here. Because I am trying to say, here’s a man, an immensely complicated man, and incredibly talented, but he is not b
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  • 95.47
    ...he greatest draftsmen who ever lived, but he had the mind of a novelist in a funny way. His eye for character is incredible.” Other matters discussed
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  • 87.12
    ...tember, 25, and in a Cannon Films publication booklet, which also contains a full crew list and biographies of the leading actors, the director and prod
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  • 62.13b
    ...ost'', 24 September. A second account of the debate. Buckley called Mailer a writer of “genuine talent” who was also “the most politically ignoran
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/213
    ...vely'', ''evaluatively''. The objective sense of society is dependent upon a ''lack'' of genuine attraction to the subject {{ins|and insight about it}}. ...ists have a real feeling for primitive peoples, why so few historians have a poetic intuitive sense of history. But one could extend the list forever.
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  • 98.17
    ...Full].” ''New York Review of Books'', 17 December, 18, 20–23. Review of ''A Man in Full'', by Tom Wolfe. Contains some of Mailer’s most considered an
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/510
    ...neutral) are invariably the coasting, the building up for an entrance into a new kind of sex. She was radiant yesterday, and indeed so was I. ...folks was again a genuine pleasure, and to my amazement Adele brought them a box of candy. Nothing she could have done would have been better proof to m
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  • 89.7
    ...a Fire on the Moon'' ([[71.1]]), including the ultimate one: was Apollo 11 a noble or an insane venture?
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  • 82.1a
    ...Part of the problem is that it’s a very long book with 200 characters, and a job of digestion had to be done. I wrote the book, so I’d already done th
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 28, 1954/68
    ...al experience. One has only to blow one’s smoke into a shaft of light, and a universe of space is revealed with gas nebulae meandering through the unive
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  • 80.4
    ...cutioner’s Song'' ([[79.14]]) as a novel, saying “God was at least as good a novelist as I am.” See [[79.17]].
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  • 65.2
    ...h Lego Blocks over a three-week period in late 1964 or early 1965. Rpt: In a revised form in ''Cannibals and Christians'' ([[66.11]]), the dustwrapper o
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/643
    Psychoanalyzing names. I do believe that a large part of a man’s psyche forms around his name as an armature, and that people respon ...r so fascinating to the moralist in me. For Adele, Morales also means More a Les(bian). Which of course is not true of her. She is deeply bisexual. Dike
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  • 61.5a
    ...ibution to the culture of our civilization should not be impaired for even a minute.”
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  • John A. Meixner, June 12, 1965
    Dear John,<ref>Meixner was a writer friend of {{NM}}’s.</ref> ...But of course no one did. And now I have to wonder myself. Perhaps it was a mistake to do it the way I did it. Perhaps I should have reworked the book,
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  • 76.22
    [[Preface to Papa: A Personal Memoir|Preface to ''Papa: A Personal Memoir'']], by Gregory H. Hemingway, M.D., xi–xiii. Boston: Houg
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/609
    ...mer and fall because I was generating the {{LJ:lerve}} necessary to change a good many old habits, habits which had grown to the point of strangling me. ...f, ergo infuriating all my rationally-determined friends. Every gambler is a romantic, he knows that life and death ride on every ball on every wheel.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/52
    ...wer, of course, is himself. But businessmen, most of them, lost themselves a long time ago. The rare ones who generally late in life are trying to come
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  • 72.2
    ...71.28]]), [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] responds to comments and criticism from a student audience, one of many such encounters during this year on the road.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/331
    ...itations is expressing his or her psychopathy, but it is psychopathy under a neurotic protection which is why they are not professional entertainers. Wh
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  • Irving J. Weiss, August 26, 1965
    ...host at a radio station in New York, Weiss sought Mailer’s involvement in a couple of literary projects.</ref> ...zal|de Chazal]], since I’ve been up here in Provincetown trying to work on a novel, and don’t get [[w:WBAI|WBAI]] as far as I know. At any rate, this
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  • Caleb Sizemore
    ...has worked as a theatre director, actor, designer, and playwright for over a decade. Caleb graduated from Wilkes University Creative Writing Graduate pr
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  • K. D. Norris
    ...nd other communications-related jobs for 20 years. Currently he is writing a short fiction/essay piece on the jazz guitarist Charlie Christian and is fi
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  • 95.48
    ...ecca Ascher-Walsh. ''Entertainment Weekly'', 10 November. Little more than a squib based on {{NM}}’s tour of the Museum of Modern Art with the author,
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/614
    ...sives have such incredible habits. Incredibly strong that is. So, to break a habit one must first “enjoy” it.
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  • Donald Kaufmann, April 20, 1965
    Dear Don,<ref>[[Donald L. Kaufmann|Kaufmann]] was a professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who became friendly with ...ril 20 issue of ''The National Review''. To my absolute amazement, there’s a rave by [[w:Joan Didion|Joan Didion]] on ''[[An American Dream]]''. And nic
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/590
    ...mption. The slovenly is the inchoate mass. To be simply a solver or simply a sloven is to deny oneself. One must be both. One must love disorder and lov ...For no philosopher (artist, scientist, merchant man, chief) is ever simply a creator, no real good one. The essence of creativity is that it accepts the
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  • 73.33
    ...uding comments as “The Murder File” in the softcover edition of ''Marilyn: A Biography'' ([[75.3]]); and without any contextual comments in [[75.1]]. Se
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  • Donna Pedro Lennon
    ...political science and criminal justice, and realtor. She has a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Illinois at Springfield. She has three sons and two
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  • 01.3
    ...t would happen if we were to meet. I called a friend [Mickey Knox] I knew, a rough tough guy, and asked him to come over and spend the day with me, and
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/447
    ...day and night are the give-and-take which permit man progress.) That where a planet does not revolve it has achieved unity, absorbed darkness into light ...ry, Marx’ swing of the pendulum, which is coming, and of which I feel I am a standard bearer.)
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/417
    ...t feelers to Barbara. Why the [[Lipton’s Journal/January 20, 1955/207|note a couple of weeks ago about secretary and wife]]?
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  • Robert Nason
    ...ll Street Journal'', ''Commentary'', and ''The Weekly Standard''. He holds a degree in English from Columbia University.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/370
    Elena{{LJ:Elena}} is a failure in ''[[The Deer Park]]'' because she is a degraded image of Adele.{{LJ:Adele}} I wrote Elena as my defense against lo
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  • 87.26a
    ...ude about it, it’s like someone making love to your woman. Or to put it in a more elevated fashion, it’s like having someone else raise your child.”
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  • Eiichi Yaminishi, January 17, 1964
    ...n, that’s fine, Eiichi; if you would rather have someone else take up such a work and merely consult you for advice, then let me know that, too. Whichev ...ope to take a week’s vacation and go skiing, and then in a few days I have a debate on television with William Buckley. It is however not live, but tape
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  • 59.9
    ...r and Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Rpt: [[59.13]] (without subtitle and with a slightly different accompanying note). See [[92.8]].
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  • 82.22a
    ...eal. How do you throw away the book? Do you write an imaginary story about a man like Gary Gilmore? Then you’re throwing away the reality.”
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  • 76.20
    ..., Sec. C, p. 14. [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] is quoted briefly in a report on a 14 December party for Richard and Doris Kearns Goodwin at his Brooklyn Heig
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  • 83.50
    ...“I’m almost more comfortable with a tough tide. I get nervous when I’m on a good tide, because I figure prosperity is something I’ve never steered to
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  • 69.61
    ...with substantial quotes from [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]], by a reporter “for a national financial newspaper which does not wish to be identified.”
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  • 07.37
    ...on of the role of film director as being “equivalent to being a general in a war in which no blood was shed.”
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  • Mark Olshaker
    ...n Mailer Society and a life member of the Writers Guild of America. He was a contributor to ''Norman Mailer in Context''.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 17, 1954/61
    ...r politicians, political leaders, athletes, etc. There is no such thing as a big or an important man who does not have some special sensitivity. That is
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  • Michael Millgate
    (1966), he has worked primarily on Thomas Hardy, editing or co-editing a as ''Thomas Hardy: His Career as a Novelist'' (1971), ''Thomas Hardy: A Biography'' (1982), ''Testamentary Acts: Browning, Tennyson, James, Hardy''
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  • 91.42
    ...the March mist, and I thought of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.” In reply, Mailer says: ...d by straightening out the grammar and wrecking the mood. I hope I learned a long time ago from Melville, Mark Twain, and Faulkner, among others, that s
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  • 1958
    After a bitter fallout with Styron and growing boredom with country living, The Mai ...ler]] spends a week lecturing at the University of Chicago, where he meets a graduate student, [[Robert F. Lucid]], who becomes his archivist and lifelo
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  • 83.30
    ...83.18 will be titled, respectively, “The Boat of Ra” (set in the future on a space ship), and “Modern Times” (set in the contemporary era). See [[83
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/221
    ...m life was so painful that she could speak her wisdom only in the words if a fool.
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  • 60.11
    ...ispute. See [[60.10]], [[61.20]], [[91.38]], and “The Shadow of the Crime: A Word from the Author” in [[98.7]].
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  • The Mailer Review/Volume 13, 2019/Here, Now
    we occupy each other for a night. Bathed,<br /> but the motions are mechanical, a muscular<br />
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  • Eiichi Yamanishi, Janaury 17, 1964
    ...n, that’s fine, Eiichi; if you would rather have someone else take up such a work and merely consult you for advice, then let me know that, too. Whichev ...ope to take a week’s vacation and go skiing, and then in a few days I have a debate on television with William Buckley. It is however not live, but tape
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  • 98.19
    ...ooks. One hundred flowers drawn by celebrities and artists, accompanied by a brief biography.
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  • 91.33
    ...ief Associated Press piece, drawn from a meeting at Random House, contains a few {{NM}} comments on [[91.26]] and how it feels to be getting old.
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  • 91.27
    ...t duplicity, deceit, manipulation, double-dealing—all of it—in the name of a higher purpose.”
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  • John Dalziel
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  • 68.16b
    ...f ''Maidstone'' on Long Island. Mailer is quoted: “I was making a movie on a violent subject. Obviously you can’t always control violence.” See [[68
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 1, 1955/422
    ...art-works, fashions, etc. and is only then followed by economic crisis, or a political reaction, or by revolution. But decadence is the natural, even in ...ses, a mood of doubt, a refinement of comedy, and perhaps most significant a cutting across categories, so that hybrid arts like opera, or today—bebop
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  • 03.11
    ...speech given at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on 20 February, is a polemic against the Iraq War with extended discussion of the idea contrived
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  • Teon Blake Jr.
    ...ed on, therefore, he figured this would be the perfect opportunity to send a message to bullies about how their actions affect others. This was how “K drawing, Teon hopes to one day become a published author and Illustrator
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  • 75.2
    ...e is an act. If you’re a working literary man, it’s obviously analogous to a sexual act. You’re better on some days than on others.” Rpt: As the sec
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  • 80.4a
    ...replied, “Norman, we don’t know how to drink scotch yet.” Mailer gave him a bottle and said, “Well, you’ll learn, you’ll learn.”
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 27, 1955/319
    ...f being which is not bad for a bead. Beet—thingishness added to being. And a beet is very much there.
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  • Daniele Pantano
    ...poetry, essays, and translations, and his poems have been translated into a dozen languages. He is Associate Professor and Programme Leader for the MA
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/18
    ...dvantageous things because of my bounteous faith that to reveal oneself to a person is to take away from them the desire to do one harm. I confess ten t
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 8, 1954/24
    ...fe may be that stratum of the collective unconscious which connects men in a net of actions, “social and productive relations independent of their wil
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  • 81.3
    ...Article-interview by Scott Parkin. ''Esquire'', January, 103. While buying a car, [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] discusses the writing life, with asides on Jo
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 14, 1955/608
    ...a habit is to brain as a shell-fragment is to the flesh—to disgorge it is a surgeon’s decision. Each “destructive” habit becomes more difficult t ...mination of the neurotic symptom-habit is not really “over-determination.” A habit must be placed beyond day-to-day questioning, for if it is not, lerve
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  • 74.12
    ...omoting [[74.9]], at which Mailer also answered questions about ''Marilyn: A Biography'' ([[73.30]]), and lamented that he had “jumped into the ending
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/655
    ...Of course those psychological tester ladies told the conference gentlemen a one way glass-mirror. So, naturally the results have “scientific” value ...ng down gestures as well as words, until as he put it, he found it getting a “little sinister.” I’ll bet. What schmucks these experts are. And wor
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 27, 1955/317
    ...follow the rules, that my limitations can be dispelled because I postulate a good old {{LJ:H}} force.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 3, 1955/173
    ...lugs, whatever, but apart from the meaning the rhythm of his voice is like a compelling beat. (Very syncopated speech.)
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  • Christine Fouirnaies
    ...eted her doctoral studies at the University of Oxford in 2019 and received a Dissertation Fellowship in 2015 to work in Norman Mailer’s archive at the
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  • 94.8
    ...ill not be publishing his next book, a biography, ''Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man'' ([[95.38]]). See [[93.4]].
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  • 71.23
    ...14, 16. Another article on “A Dialogue on Women’s Liberation”; a report on a later brief conversation with [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] is appended. See [[7
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  • 56.25
    ...Short Novels 2'', 1-29. New York: Ballantine, early May, simultaneously as a softcover.==== ...' ([[55.4]]) was the only novel of the cycle to be published). One of only a couple of times {{NM}} uses an omniscient narrator in fiction, the others b
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  • 84.24
    “Thoughts of a Tough Guy.” Article-interview by Dermot Purgavie. ''Mail On Sunday Magazi ...reckoning came and I realised I damn well had to write a book. It had been a book I had been trying to start all year and I hadn’t been able to get ne
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/468
    ...as to create or limn a type requires merely talent. I have so far to go as a novelist. Yet, the pleasure of my books is that through my types one feels
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  • 69.83
    ...s on the 1969 moon shot, later incorporated with much reordering into ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' ([[71.1]]). See [[69.81]], [[70.1]].
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  • 04.10
    ...story: “Satan—Jehovah, fifteen rounds. A Draw.” The challenge is based on a 6-word piece by Hemingway: “For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Used.”
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  • Danny Marroquin
    ...oc.com Nondoc.com], a political journal based in Oklahoma City. He carries a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 24, 1955/228
    ...is perhaps the first successful and almost-honest expression of myself as a saint writing about psychopaths and loving them. But the neurotic little bo
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  • 91.43
    ...It’s in the context of a literary dialogue.” Simon said if he were running a book review, “I would publish whatever review I published and that would
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  • 80.13
    ...matrimaniac, or call him a mensch. We call Norman Mailer a still point in a turning world.” See also “The Amours of Norman, Chapters 5 and 6,” ''
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  • Index of Names/A
    #REDIRECT [[Norman Mailer: Works and Days/Index of Names/A]]
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  • Toward a New Synthesis
    #REDIRECT [[The Mailer Review/Volume 7, 2013/Toward a New Synthesis]]
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  • Phillip Sipiora Jr.
    ...Sipiora Jr.}} is a first-year student at the University of Florida. He is a
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  • 60.1
    ...ied support to President Kennedy in the essay, which led to Mailer writing a searing letter to the editors. See [[13.2]], 306–07; [[14.3]], 289–90.
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  • 71.26
    [[Preface to Sting Like a Bee|Preface to ''…Sting Like a Bee: The Muhammad Ali Story'']], by José Torres (with Bert Sugar), ix-xiv.
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  • 1951
    ...Adele in New York, first at 85 Monroe Street (March through June), then in a sub-let at 409 East 64th Street (through mid-July), and finally at 14 Pitt He also makes a quick trip to Palm Springs, CA (the setting for ''The Deer Park'' ([[55.4]]
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  • 07.31
    ...mes and ideas, and a dozen of his major books. Very important interview by a novelist who is quite familiar and friendly with Mailer. At the outset, {{N ...He really had a perfect mating of material and style. Usually if you have a great style your material will be more constrained. That applies to Henry J
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  • 97.23d
    ...his later years, also includes comment on ''The Last Party'' ([[97.11]]), a memoir by his second wife, [[w:Adele Morales|Adele Morales]].
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  • 52.0
    ...ing in the U.S., perhaps Nazi-like concentration camps for dissenters, and a general breakdown of moral values. “The independent spirit of non-conform
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  • Lonnie Wells, April 16, 1966
    ...Dream. For example, E.L. Doctorow (1931-), who worked on Mailer’s novel as a young editor at Dial, depicted Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan and s
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 29, 1954/99
    ...pends one’s view of society. So, there are psychopaths who will never kill a fly, but who must nonetheless wander through each experience without sense In a peculiar way, a bureaucrat, and his extension, a totalitarian, is a petrified psychopath—he gives to the office, the machine, the party, the
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  • 92.1
    ...ns 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 an ...capes, places where I have an insight and where the event can have a life, a psychological reality within my imagination.}}
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  • David Light
    ...ction of {{NM}} books and magazines. It has always been his dream to write a novel. Retirement now affords him the golden opportunity.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/December 31, 1954/130
    ...enius and the mystic is clear—the mystic succeeds or fails with himself or a very small audience; the genius contains his sense of his own soul and his
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  • 98.9b
    ...at the event about Viagra. “Real Men Don’t Take Viagra,” Mailer said with a twinkle in his eye.
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  • 60.10g
    ...orman Mailer|Mailer]] being “both homicidal and suicidal. His admission to a hospital is urgently advised.”
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  • 63.22
    ...ight Wing: A Debate.” ''Playboy'', February, 115-16, 119-22. Transcript of a debate with William F. Buckley Jr. in Chicago on 22 September 1962, moderat
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 26, 1955/295
    ...st for the giver is to find a bigger giver. But the giver cannot remain in a state of passivity, he is up again, bouncing, ready to go. Tomorrow night h
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  • 81.7
    ...try and Prose'', no. 6 (spring-summer), 103–115. Major interview. Rpt: As “A Little on Novel-Writing” in [[82.16]].
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  • 70.1
    ...s on the 1969 moon shot, later incorporated with much reordering into ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' ([[71.1]]). See [[69.81]], [[69.83]].
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/451
    ...before (capitalism in other words) being the total commitment to building a society, was built upon barter. But barter evolved into money, and money in ...ere is a clue here for how to reach the homicidal psychopath. Naturally at a deeper level, the gangster will really hate you for life, but it is beneath
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  • 00.3
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  • Foreword to The Beard
    ...ese effervescences that ''The Beard'' plays, masterfully, be it said, like a juggler.
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  • 94.2
    ...sue that he once offered to butt heads with her. He says if he did, it was a joke. “You have to feel kinship with somebody to butt his head.”
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  • Norman Mailer Society/Robert F. Lucid Award
    .... The Lawrence Schiller Educational Trust matches all contributions, up to a total of $5,000, to an endowment set up to fund the Lucid Award. We are dee | 2013 || J. Michael Lennon || ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life''
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  • 02.7
    ...and Schiller performed a lengthy investigation for the project, including a trip to Russia to speak with Hanssen’s KGB handlers.
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  • 07.14
    ...to write an autobiography and that he has no real interest in himself “as a literary subject.”
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  • 74.17
    ...ot interested in joining a men’s consciousness-raising group because “it’s a way of digging too close to the source of one’s work.”
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  • 79.6
    ...k by Weiner from [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]]’s talk about the writing life at a benefit for the Museum of Art in Provincetown.”
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  • 69.82
    ...er’s first cousin, and the foreword is an admiring sketch of “Cy,” who, as a student, preceded Mailer at Harvard. Rpt: As Introduction to the Bantam sof
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  • Remembering a Good Friend
    #REDIRECT [[The Mailer Review/Volume 1, 2007/Remembering a Good Friend]]
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 21, 1955/631
    ...her things that I put my mouth wherever I wished—hang the germs!—and I got a little better. ...{{LJ:Reich}} and Rhoda said I should scream. So I practiced screaming into a pillow (very hard for me—I always have enormous tension in the throat), w
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  • 84.31
    ...e|Maybe some of his [Williams’s] talent will rub off on me. I’d like to do a good play before I die—before I give up the seat.|author=Mailer|source=84 ...hat will surely make posterity regard him as one of the giants—if at times a wounded giant—of our age. See [[98.4]].
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  • 02.2
    ...en when walking his poodle in the fall of 1956, and had to spend a week in a darkened room. See [[13.2]], 211–212.
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  • 97.21
    ...another report based on a telephone interview with {{NM}}. Accompanied by a brief excerpt (the miracle of the loaves and fishes) from [[97.13]]. See [[
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  • 68.3a
    ...are “hopeless, necessarily superficial and fake,” and described himself as a dove in the debate about the war.
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 25, 1955/260
    ...static although they may be locked in the depression of trench warfare for a decade and then another decade. We change, and as we change we need another
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  • 99.1
    ...d how the three young novelists “laughed and roared and drank and felt for a godly half-hour like the swashbucklers who were not, not quite.” Rpt: Jam
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  • Lipton’s Journal/January 31, 1955/346
    ...ion—but of course once they get the story, they never write it. They write a lie instead. ...ts occasionally do give out a bit. (The word bit really means in the slang—a bit of truth.)
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  • 63.27
    ...is notable for his description of himself, perhaps for the first time, as a “left conservative.” Rpt: [[14.3]].
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  • 92.11c
    ...” He also spoke about his novel, ''Harlot’s Ghost'' ([[91.26]]), published a year earlier. It ends with the words, “To be continued.” Asked if he wo
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  • 03.2
    ...harshly negative review of ''The Spooky Art'' by Michiko Kakutani, one of a string of negative reviews by Mailer’s ''bête noir'' among reviewers. Se
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  • Lipton’s Journal/February 7, 1955/532
    ...t they do. The analyst in most cases is a rebel who retreated, and that is a very uncomfortable position—very power-obsessed but with no vocational sa ...yst is seen usually only at the beginning and the end of the hour) reveals a whole gamut of reactions, and they are not all paranoid projections of the
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  • Stephen Eric Berry
    ...ephen Eric Berry''' is a writer, filmmaker, translator, and a recipient of a Jule and Avery Hopwood Award at the University of Michigan. His work has re
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  • 92.2b
    ...hat demand a fundamental reassessment because American capitalism has lost a wonderful old friend,” i.e., communism.
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  • 77.7
    ...en’s Wear Daily'' on 7 November 1970 (see [[70.13a]]) about Vidal. Rpt: In a limited hardcover edition of 400 copies. Northridge, Calif.: Lord John Pres
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  • 68.1a
    ...eless believes that “in ten years it will be a private classic.” He offers a refund to anyone who doesn’t like it. See [[67.21]].
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  • 49.6
    ...1943 Battle of San Pietro, Italy, and was later dismissed from his job as a clerk in the Veteran’s Administration for his leftist affiliations. Maile ...s a direct indication of the strength of fascism in America. It is part of a larger process which is designed to silence finally even the mildest libera
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  • 91.40
    ...to ''Harlot’s Ghost''<ref>[[91.26]]</ref> this summer (‘All I have now are a lot of notes’) after he puts the finishing touches on his ‘short, inter
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