On 28 August, {{NM}}’s mother dies.
|File:1985 NM.jpg|NM in 1985.
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...an Dream'' ([[65.7]]) is serialized in ''Esquire'', January-August, with {{NM}} completing each chapter six weeks before it appears.
|File:1964 NM and Beverly.jpg|NM and Beverly in 1964. Photo by Richard Avedon.
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In February and March, {{NM}} attends meetings and writes statements in support of [[w:Salman Rushdie|S
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{{NM}} continues work on ''Harlot's Ghost'' ([[91.26]]).
|File:1990 JB, Norris, NM.jpg|John Buffalo, Norris, and NM, c. 1990.
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On 23 April, {{NM}} receives (for the second time) Harvard University’s Signet Society Meda
|File:1995a.jpg|NM circa 1995.
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In July, makes his third experimental film, ''Maidstone'', on Long Island. {{NM}} plays a famous director, Norman T. Kingsley, and Rip Torn plays his half-
|File:1968-NM-Chris-Smith.jpg|NM in 1968. Photo by Chris Smith.
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|File:1976 NM, Helen Meyer, Irwin Shaw.jpg|NM, Helen Meyer, and Irwin Shaw, 1978.
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...Breslin|Jimmy Breslin]]. ''New York'', 5 May, 40–44; cover photograph of {{NM}} and Breslin. The most humorous of the accounts of how the Mailer-Breslin
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|File:1988 NM in Miami.jpg|NM at Miami Bookfair International, 1988.
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In November, {{NM}} divorces [[w:Beverly Bentley|Beverly Bentley]], marries and divorces Caro
|File:1980 Buzz Faber and NM.jpg|Buzz Faber and NM (1980).
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A facsimile of the manuscript of {{NM}}’s unpublished 1943 novel, ''A Transit to Narcissus'' ([[78.2]]), is pub
|File:1979 Norris, John Buffalo, and NM.jpg|Norris, John Buffalo, and NM (c. 1979).
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...ys]] in New York on 31 January; it closes 21 May after 127 performances. {{NM}} underwrites the production and loses money. The cast includes his wife [[
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{{NM}}’s article on the 1996 campaign appears in the January issue of ''George
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In April, {{NM}} sells his 500-cubic-foot archive, including approximately 50,000 of his l
|File:2005 - Star Black.jpg|NM in 2005. Photo by Star Black.
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''Pieces and Pontifications'' ([[82.16]]), {{NM}}’s fifth miscellany, including 12 essays and 20 interviews, and edited b
|File:1982 NM in NYC.jpg|NM in NYC, 1982.
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In June, {{NM}} purchases a house in Provincetown, 565 Commercial Street, where he will l
|File:1966 NM.jpg|NM in 1966. Photo by Maury Englander.
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|File:1932 NM and Barbara.jpg|NM and Barbara, 1932.
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{{NM}} graduates from Harvard on 27 May with a S.B. degree (with honors) in engi
|File:1943-NM-Harvard.jpg|From the 1943 Harvard class album.
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{{NM}} takes a two-semester writing course (1940–1941) from Robert Gorham Davi
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{{NM}} visits Russia for the first time in March; returns with [[Norris Church M
|File:1984 Irving Penn.jpg|NM by Irving Penn, 1984.
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In spring semester, {{NM}} takes Howard Mumford Jones’s “Modern American Literature,” one of t
|File:1942-NM.2.jpg|Mailer in Washington D.C., 1942.
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|File:1962-Danielle-NM-Elizabeth.jpg|Danielle, NM, and Elizabeth, 1962.
|File:1962-Lady-Jean-Campbell-NM-Tibo-credit-Ivan-Massar.jpg|Jeanne Campbell, NM, and Tibo (1962). Photo by Ivan Massar.
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{{NM}} does two interviews (one in ''New York'' and the other in ''Playboy'') wi
|File:2004 NM and Barbara.jpg|NM and Barbara in 2004.
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''The Executioner's Song'' ([[79.14]]), {{NM}}’s third and most important collaboration with [[Lawrence Schiller]], is
|File:1979 - NM and Larry Schiller.jpg|NM and Lawrence Schiller, 1979.
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...gloom with the radiance of anarchism. As Jenny Silverman{{refn|Mother of {{NM}}’s first wife Bea.}} said of me once, “The little pisherke with the bi
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|File:1986 NM in Ptown.jpg|NM in Provincetown while filming ''TGDD'', 1986. Photo by Ken Regan.
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...ame. The essay was reprinted in ''[[Advertisements for Myself]]''. See ''[[NM:WD]]'' [[55.2]].}} I wrote a letter to Lasky saying that I would but on my
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In October, {{NM}} covers the “[[w:The Rumble in the Jungle|The Rumble in the Jungle]],”
|File:1974 NM.jpg|NM in 1974. Photo by Molly Malone Cook.
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On 1 May, {{NM}} announces his candidacy for mayor of New York (with journalist [[w:Jimmy
|File:1969 nm.jpg|NM in 1969.
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...abs on public agencies and officials. It fizzles out in a few years, but {{NM}} is prescient: the Watergate break-in occurs in June.
|File:1973 NM, Carol Stevens and Maggie.jpg|NM, Carol Stevens, and Maggie (1973).
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On 18 April, {{NM}} is awarded Harvard University's Signet Society Medal for Achievement in t
|File:1970 NM.jpg|NM speaks at an anti-war rally (1970).
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|File:1965 NM.jpg|NM in 1965.
|File:1965-NM-Ali-San-Juan.jpg|NM and Ali in San Juan, 1965.
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{{NM}} covers the August Republican Convention and publishes his account in the
|File:1992 NM and JML at Wilkes.jpg|Norman Mailer and J. Michael Lennon at Wilkes Univers
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11 April, Peter born to {{NM}}’s sister, [[Barbara Mailer Wasserman|Barbara]], then married to Larry A
|File:1955-NM-Dan Wolf.jpg|Mailer and Dan Wolf in the offices of the ''Village Voice'', 1
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{{NM}} publishes 17 weekly columns in the ''Voice'', the first 14 titled "Quickl
|File:1956.jpg|NM in 1956.
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Listening to Dizzy Gillespie{{refn| NM heard [[w:Dizzy Gillespie|Gillespie]] (1917-1993), one of the great jazz tr
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[[File:NM-80.jpg|thumb|400px]]{{Large|'''Norman Mailer at 100'''}}<br />{{Big|April 2
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In late June, {{NM}} writes the introduction for and helps arrange the publication by Random H
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{{NM}}’s interview with [[Robert Begiebing]] ([[83.10]]), one of his three or
|File:1983 NM on Harvard Mag.jpg|NM on ''Harvard Magazine'', 1983.
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...re Vidal. New York: Random House. Vidal describes his first meeting with {{NM}}, and other encounters, here.
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...Blood of the Blunt” ([[12.1]]), a previously unpublished short story by {{NM}} is published in the ''[[The Mailer Review, Volume 6, 2012|Mailer Review]]
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On 25 February, {{NM}} is awarded the Gold Medal for Literature by the National Arts Club.
|File:1976 Matthew and NM.jpg|Matthew and NM in Wellfleet, c. 1975.
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...-god-problem/ On Sartre’s God Problem].” ''Nation'' 280, 6 June, 30, 32. {{NM}}’s mixes praise of Sartre with criticism for his atheism. See [[55.11]].
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...she has intestinal cancer and undergoes the first of several operations. {{NM}} is beset with various health problems: angina, arthritis, macular degener
|File:2000 NM at Home.jpg|Norman Mailer at his home in Provincetown, 2000. Credit: Kathy
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“Tolstoy and Chekov.” ''Paris Review'' 137 (winter), 48–49. {{NM}} recounts a story, perhaps apocryphal, of a conversation between the two g
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File:1955 Adele and NM.jpg|Adele and NM in felony court Dec. 29, 1960.
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|File:1958 NM.jpg|NM in 1958.
|File:1958.jpg|NM in 1958.
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..., Philosophy: Understanding Mike Tyson.” ''Spin'', September, 40–44, 78. {{NM}} explains Tyson by reference to his “spiritual father, surrogate father,
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...y Martyn Harris. ''Telegraph Magazine'' (England), 5 October, 19–20, 22. {{NM}} is quoted only briefly in this somewhat disapproving piece on [[91.26]] a
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Previously unpublished {{NM}} short story, written circa 1951. Preceded by a facsimile of the original
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...ildren to be encouraged more, and that television commercials be banned. {{NM}} is pictured on the cover with his granddaughter Natasha Lancaster.
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...Comment on “The White Man Unburdened” ([[03.21]]) by Ronald Tiersky and {{NM}}’s 1200-word reply. ''New York Review of Books'', 14 August, 41–42.
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...lentz. ''Time'', 27 January, 74–75. Summary article on the PEN Congress; {{NM}} is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...y Joel Meyerowitz, no pagination. Boston: Bullfinch Press, Little, Brown. {NM}} adds 276 words of praise to Meyerowitz’s haunting photographs of the Ca
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...to the Worst.” ''Esquire'', October, 60–62, 64, 186. Essay on boxing and {{NM}}’s relationship with Ryan O’Neal, with appearances by José Torres and
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....” Academy of Achievement, 12 June. Comprehensive interview ranging over {{NM}}’s early life in Brooklyn, Harvard education, WWII experience, his early
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...''Newsweek'', 27 January, 60–61. Another round-up on the PEN conference. {{NM}}, “who masterminded the Congress,” is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...Mailer''. By Carole Mallory. Beverly Hills, CA: Phoenix Books. Memoir by {{NM}}’s lover from 1984–1991, with many remembered quotes from Mailer.
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...r attempts to be provocative, but only elicits several curt replies from {{NM}} in this brief, unmemorable interview focused on television and sex.
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...Man and Mailer.” Letter to the editor. ''Nation'' 280, 15–22 August, 2. {{NM}} responds to several letters disagreeing with his comments on Sartre in [[
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...imes'', 20 January, Sec. C, p. 25. Overview article on the PEN Congress. {{NM}} is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...en, that fellow, if he read the interview where I said the second.{{refn|{{NM}} refers to his 1948 interview with Louise Levitas, “The Naked are Fanati
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...n), 15–16 April, W6. In a piece focused on ''The Big Empty'' ([[06.2]]), {{NM}} also talks about his earlier work and the current American malaise.
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|File:1959-NM-credit-Judy-Scheftel.jpg|Mailer in captain's hat, 1959. Photo by Judy Schef
|File:1959-NM-credit-Peter-Keen.jpg|Mailer in 1959. Photo by Peter Keen.
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...path. ''Daily Texan'', 26 April 2005, 1, 2A. More details on the sale of {{NM}}’s papers. See [[05.3]], [[05.5]], [[05.6]], [[05.9]], [[05.12]], [[05.1
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[The Flea Market]. ''Pharaon'' (Paris), March-April, 3. In 335 words, {{NM}} extols the virtues of the flea market over the shopping mall in this Fren
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..., written in the wake of Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, in which {{NM}} charges President Clinton with betraying the poor and enriching the wealt
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...6]], including comments on J.F.K., and a conversation about conservatism {{NM}} once had with Arthur Miller.
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...ility with reference to various criminal cases, including Jack Abbott’s. {{NM}} is quoted briefly. See 1982 entries.
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...ess Talent.’” Column by Ina Hughes. ''Knoxville News-Sentinel'', 18 May. {{NM}}’s brief remarks in this column seem to be taken from the same telephone
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...refront'' 6 (winter 1997-1998), 36–41. Thoughtful interview by a veteran {{NM}} interviewer, focusing on the religious ideas behind [[97.13]].
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...ollections from over 200 friends and colleagues, including a number from {{NM}}. See [[77.13]].
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...he-new-paternalism/ Hansberry’s 1 June essay] in the ''Voice'' attacking {{NM}}’s review of “The Blacks” ([[61.6]]) and his views on blacks.
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...h Century].” ''New Yorker'', 6 October, 50–63. Thirty-eight letters from {{NM}} to various correspondents from 1945–1988. Edited by [[J. Michael Lennon
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...ress focusing on a party at the apartment of Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg. {{NM}} is quoted briefly. {{PEN}}
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...ture.” Article by Miles White. ''South Bend Tribune'', 18 May. Report on {{NM}}’s appearance at the Dogwood Fine Arts Festival in Dowagiac, Ind. on 16
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...s. ''New York Times'', 21 December, 28. Report on a disagreement between {{NM}} and Jay Presson Allen, author of “Tru,” a one-man Broadway play about
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....” (London) ''Independent'', 24 January. Contains some brief quotes from {{NM}} as he nears 80. Asked why he does a crossword puzzle and plays solitaire
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...ew by Joshua Karetny. ''Daily Pennsylvanian'', 3 November, 11. Report on {{NM}}’s keynote address at the Jewish Book Festival at the Gershwin YM-YWHA i
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...hing.” Interview by Howard Halle. ''Time Out New York'', 2–8 March, 160. {{NM}} jumps all over corporations and the Bush administration, saying both have
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...he daughter of James Jones. Contains important accounts of meetings with {{NM}}.
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.... ''Washington Post Book World'', 21 January, 7. In this brief exchange, {{NM}} notes that his “relationship with my father was very interesting. Not h
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...ril, 35, 39. Interviewed by telephone from his home in Brooklyn Heights, {{NM}} spoke about forthcoming response to [[97.13]]. Accompanied by Tom Sherida
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...ampshire Sunday News'', 7 June, Sec. E, p. 4. Reynolds’s piece, in which {{NM}} recalls his mother and her family loyalty, appeared first in the ''Los An
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...encer''. ''Vancouver Sun'', 31 October. In Seattle to promote [[95.38]], {{NM}} discusses his credentials for writing an interpretive biography.
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''The Spooky Art'' ([[03.7]]), edited by [[JML|Lennon]], is published on {{NM}}’s 80th birthday, and receives a warm reception, the review of [[w:Michi
|File:2002 NM in Ptown.jpg|Norman Mailer Provincetown, 2002. Photo by Norris Church Maile
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.... ''Hartford Courant'', 6 December, Sec. B, pp. 1, 3. Report, with brief {{NM}} quotes, of his 4 December visit to [[Barry Leeds]]’s Mailer course at C
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“Books: Moonraker.” Interview by Tom Piazza.” ''Omni'', July, 18, 78. {{NM}} revisits some of the questions he raised in ''Of a Fire on the Moon'' ([[
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..., Sec. E (“Datebook”), pp. 1–2. Interviewed at Random House in New York, {{NM}} talks about [[95.16]], with emphasis on the sexuality of Lee Harvey and M
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...}} ''U.S. News and World Report'', 10 December, 57–58. Essay. Summary of {{NM}}’s views on several topics: the 70s, journalism, technology, literary pe
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...ad''. New York: Henry Holt, 6 May, simultaneously in softcover, xi–xiii. {{NM}} wrote this new introduction for an edition issued on the 50th anniversary
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...chael Chaiken]]. ''Mailer Review'', 407–420. A discerning interview with {{NM}} on his films.
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...sement of Jesse Jackson in the New York Democratic presidential primary. {{NM}}’s most considered discussion of Jewish-black relations.
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...y Luaine Lee. ''Chicago Tribune'', 21 September, Sec. 2 (“Tempo”), p. 3. {{NM}} talks more about the problems of celebrity than ''Tough Guys Don’t Danc
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...Sec. B, p. 1. Report on a visit to the University of Scranton on 10 May. {{NM}}’s remarks on novel-writing are quoted briefly.
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...2–83. Late addition to the list of summary articles on the PEN Congress. {{NM}} is quoted throughout this piece, which is only slightly less outraged tha
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...iew by Sue Fox. ''Times'' (London), 8 August, 8. Memoir with quotes from {{NM}} in the hospital just before he died, and from [[John Buffalo Mailer]], [[
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...ghs, Ken Kesey, Gregory Corso, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono and several others, {{NM}} offers a brief valedictory comment on the late poet, lauding his courage
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...''Entertainment Weekly'', 10 November. Little more than a squib based on {{NM}}’s tour of the Museum of Modern Art with the author, who quotes him brie
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...17 May memorial ceremony for Brooklyn poet laureate, Norman Rosten, whom {{NM}} called “the quintessence” of the “good guy” from Brooklyn.
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...r. ''London Times'', 21 September. Linked interviews with Gore Vidal and {{NM}} on politics. Mailer says, “I don’t agree with Gore much about anythin
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...ltimore) ''Sun'', 29 September, Sec. H, pp. 1, 8. Warren records some of {{NM}}’s comments at a Random House meeting with reporters just prior to the p
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...3.2]]), a short story, is published in ''Esquire'', the first of over 40 {{NM}} appearances in this magazine.
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...dward Rothstein, ''New Republic'', 24 February, 20–23; cover portrait of {{NM}}, Kurt Vonnegut and Günter Grass. Analytic article on the debate and diss
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...democracy created by the war in Iraq, and also contains first notice of {{NM}}’s forthcoming novel, ''The Castle in the Forest'' ([[07.10]])
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{{NM}} also discusses television,
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...nt with the Occult'', by Peter Levenda, 1–4. 2nd ed. New York Continuum. {{NM}} notes that he has read Levenda’s book three times and gives an enthusia
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...ber, Sec. C (“Accent”), pp. 1, 4. Coughlin and five other reporters meet {{NM}} at Random House. Brief piece centered on her own reactions to Mailer. Acc
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...''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' in this overview of the Cannes Film Festival. {{NM}} is quoted briefly. See [[84.17]], 1986 and 1987 entries.
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File:1969-NM-credit-Paul-Schwartzman.jpg|Credit: Paul Schwartzman.
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...ciated 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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...s. 12 pp. Limited edition. Contains five evocations of Provincetown from {{NM}}’s work, and Lennon’s introduction.
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...Library Newsletter'', Fall, 3–4. At a conference at the J.F.K. Library, {{NM}} said of Hemingway, “He was maybe the most competitive American writer w
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...y Dempsey. ''The Literary Review'' (Edinburgh), 14 December 1979, 17–18. {{NM}} comments on the complexity of [[w:Gary Gilmore|Gary Gilmore]]’s charact
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...le-interview by Charles W. Bell. (New York) ''Daily News'', 13 April, 7. {{NM}} explains his reasons for writing [[97.13]], especially his desire to impr
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...big novel could be called ''Antacid Analgesic''.{{refn|It is unclear if {{NM}} understood how and why these two drugs are combined in medicines such as
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...n by Pat Wechsler and Roger D. Friedman. ''New York'', 19 September, 13. {{NM}} is quoted briefly in this piece, which explains why Random House will not
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...loration of the O.J. Simpson case, shortly after the not-guilty verdict. {{NM}} says that “blacks can see themselves as inhabitants, willy-nilly of a p
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...Style”), pp. 1, 4. In San Francisco on the publicity tour for [[91.26]], {{NM}} talks to the media in his suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
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...y a part of us (our souls) really felt at the time.{{refn|In the margin, {{NM}} wrote {{ins|Expand}}.}} As a wild extra, déjà vu may have reality—the
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...bout the Sport of Boxing.” ''Stop Smiling'', no. 20, 15 April 38–43, 91. {{NM}}’s longest discussion of boxing in an interview. Rpt: (partial), [[06.2]
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...mes'', 16 January, Sec. C, p. 17. At a PEN Congress panel on censorship, {{NM}} is quoted on the possibility of the Reagan administration working to repe
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...al Fiction in 6 Words, No More, No Less.” ''Black Book'', fall, 132–133. {{NM}}’s story: “Satan—Jehovah, fifteen rounds. A Draw.” The challenge i
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Letter to the Editor. ''New York Times'', 22 March. In this brief letter, {{NM}} comments on Senator Robert Byrd’s 20 March op-ed piece in the ''Times''
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...n and President Lyndon B. Johnson, shortly after J.F.K.’s assassination. {{NM}}’s final contribution to ''Vanity Fair'' as writer-in-residence. See [[5
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...tor of ''The Realist'', which contains several accounts of meetings with {{NM}}, and Mailer’s ward, Jeanne Johnson. See [[62.21]].
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...May, Sec. 14 (“Books”), p. 3. Besides discussing fiction and nonfiction, {{NM}} comments on John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell and the organizational sche
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...City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel. Rpt: Ebert’s memoir includes comments by {{NM}} from [[86.35]] (partial); [[88.6]] (partial). See [[87.5]].
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...March. Sex, marriage and feminism are the key topics in this interview. {{NM}} also notes that he likes Donald Rumsfeld better than any of the other neo
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...ay Self].” Brief Interview by Daniel Asa Rose. ''New York'', 27 October. {{NM}} tells Rose that he had no difficulty imagining gay sex in ''The Castle in
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...American Psycho'', by Bret Easton Ellis. The review’s lead-in notes that {{NM}} had accepted the position of writer-at-large at ''Vanity Fair''. Rpt: (pa
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...Editor. Ann Shayne, editor, “Meet the Author,” ''Book Page'', 29 August. {{NM}} answers question about ''The Gospel According to the Son'' (''97.13''). T
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...e Mallory. ''Smart'', September-October, 96–102. Wide-ranging interview: {{NM}}’s novel-in-progress, ''Harlot’s Ghost'' ([[91.26]]), Tom Wolfe’s Bo
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...20 September, Sec. 3, pp. 1–2. Humdrum piece based on an interview with {{NM}} in Toronto where ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' was screened as part of tha
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...years as a high school principal). He holds an impressive collection of {{NM}} books and magazines. It has always been his dream to write a novel. Retir
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...]]). By Neal Travis. ''New York Post'', 8 May. Reports on a conversation {{NM}} had with José Torres at the event about Viagra. “Real Men Don’t Take
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...Article-interview by Tim Miller. ''Cape Cod Times'', 5 December, 1, 15. {{NM}} again compares writing and filmmaking in this piece, which also reports t
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...d Exchange between Father and Son.” Conversation on these topics between {{NM}} and his son, [[John Buffalo Mailer|John Buffalo]]. ''Playboy'', December,
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...ng retrospectives of the work of Luc Moullet, Peter Whitehead and Norman {{NM}} and is the editor of ''Arthur Penn: Interviews'' (University Press of Mis
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Letter to the editor. ''New Yorker'', 18 April, 10. {{NM}} responds to a comment by Pauline Kael in the 21 March issue that he once
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...esides commenting on his interest in Picasso’s early life in this piece, {{NM}} discusses political parties, Newt Gingrich, religion in America and the d
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...es-Barre, Pa.) ''Times-Leader'', 5 July, Sec. G, p. 5. Brief comments by {{NM}} on the writing life in a 4 May Brooklyn interview in connection with the
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...Fifty-two photographs of Provincetown shot at night with long exposures. {{NM}}’s introduction was one of the last things he wrote before his death.
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...'']], by Marco Vassi, 9–12. Sag Harbor, N.Y.: Permanent Press, November. {{NM}}’s preface is also a eulogy for Vassi, who was passionately devoted to a
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...''New York Post'', 30 September, 23–24. Over breakfast at Random House, {{NM}} talks about [[91.26]]: “My goal would be that half the people who read
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...el Hollett. ''Now'' (Toronto), 19–25 October, 32–33; cover photograph of {{NM}}. Mailer discusses [[95.38]] at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, focusing
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...nal Sentinel'', 4 June, 1–2. Another discussion of the fictive nature of {{NM}}’s nonfiction narratives, including [[95.16]] and ''The Executioner’s
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...eter DePree. ''Bloomsbury Review'', March-April, 3, 10–11. Discussion of {{NM}}’s sources, his knowledge of painters and modern art, Picasso’s sexual
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...s Life”), p. 5. Still another report based on a telephone interview with {{NM}}. Accompanied by a brief excerpt (the miracle of the loaves and fishes) fr
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File:1950 Bea and NM.jpg|Bea and NM, c. 1950.
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...homas and Angela R. Dickey. ''Pencil Press Quarterly'' 1 (fall), 4, 6–7. {{NM}} talks to the editors of this new magazine after speaking at the Universit
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...ountain News'', 6 November, Sec. D (“Arts and Entertainment”), pp. 5, 7. {{NM}} responds, in general terms, to the art critics who wrote negative reviews
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..., 1, 12. The interview focuses on America’s social and cultural decline. {{NM}} says that the end of the Cold War “is going to introduce some interesti
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...dré Bernard and Joseph Cummins. ''Book-of-the-Month Club News'', May, 3. {{NM}} says that he’ll never forgive Oswald “because we’ll never get over
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...r Magazine'', July, 12, 14, 16. Interviewed at Random House in New York, {{NM}} explains how he came to see Lee Harvey Oswald: “He was not just a passi
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...oks, including his memoir, ''Peeling the Onion'', by Timothy Garton Ash. {{NM}} is quoted defending Grass for his wartime service in the [[w:Waffen-SS|Wa
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...first=Shannon L.|note=Much of the following has been incorporated into ''[[NM:WD|Norman Mailer: Works and Days]]''.|url=http://prmlr.us/mr12zin}}
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...[Barry H. Leeds]]. ''Connecticut Review'' 18 (spring), 5–12. A long-time {{NM}} scholar remembers his meetings with Mailer over 30 years, and quotes from
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...sed.” Article-interview by Wil Haygood. ''Boston Globe'', 2 May, 59, 68. {{NM}} says that he is “75 percent sure” that Oswald killed J.F.K. Haygood a
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...ticle by Tara Bahrampour. ''New York Times'', 13 January. In this squib, {{NM}} and Plimpton are quoted briefly after their performance with [[Norris Chu
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...aris Review'', no. 181 (summer), 81–86. Five pages of documents from the {{NM}} archive at the Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin, are reproduced
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...er].” Article-interview by Bob Minzesheimer. ''USA Today'', 8 September. {{NM}} comments on [[97.13]], listing some of the theologians he read (Elaine Pa
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...limpton]. ''Harvard Advocate'' 140, no. 2 (winter), 13. Memorial number. {{NM}}, who acted in “Zelda, Scott and Ernest” (see [[01.3]]) with his wife,
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...published and presented on Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Norman {{NM}}, Florida pop-culture, film, and war trauma.
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...st Interview]].” By [[J. Michael Lennon]]. ''[[Mailer Review]]'', 17–20. {{NM}} discusses his friend Robert Lindner, and the founding of the ''Village Vo
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...w by G.D.G. Time, 1 December, 58–59. Brief piece, with a few quotes from {{NM}}, which reveals the budget for the film version of [[84.17]] to be $5 mill
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..., about the underrepresentation of women on various PEN Congress panels. {{NM}} is quoted, as is Friedan. {{PEN}}
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...anding].” Profile-interview by Tom Junod. ''Esquire'', 108–115, 131–133. {{NM}} is quoted several times in this piece, which ranges over his career. Mich
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...s in Texas.” Article-interview by Jim Vertuno. AP wire story, early May. {{NM}} said that he might have been a blogger if there had been an Internet in t
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...62. San Jose, CA: San Jose State University. In a 219-word contribution, {{NM}} expresses his admiration for Steinbeck, especially for his “marvelous a
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...anuary, 18–22, 24, 26, 54–55. Overview with quotes set off in boxes from {{NM}}, George P. Shultz, Omar Cabezas, Margaret Atwood, Meredith Tax, Elizabeth
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...; and [[w:Laurette Taylor|Taylor]] (1883-1946) in ''The Glass Menagerie''. NM met Brando during the year, 1949-50, he spent in Hollywood trying to write
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...Bell. (New York) ''Daily News'', 16 October, 1, 40; cover photograph of {{NM}}. Light piece with brief quotes from Mailer on [[91.26]], drinking, fame,
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...nsom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas) 13 (winter), 1, 8. {{NM}} explains why he sold his papers to Texas and what they might be used for
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...ed, without turning sharply and decisively political. Brief excerpt from {{NM}}’s opening speech are given. {{PEN}}
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...News Service writer. ''Washington Times'', 2 June. In this brief piece, {{NM}} says he sees “a huge difference” between Lee Harvey Oswald and Timoth
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...''Book-of-the-Month Club Book News'', December, 11. Brief piece in which {{NM}} says, “It was my intention to write a novel that would give the reader
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...t”), pp. 1, 20. Artner, art critic for the ''Tribune'', finds fault with {{NM}}’s methods and conclusions in [[95.38]], but quotes him fully and fairly
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...Joseph Gelmis. ''Providence Sunday Journal'', 21 December, Sec. I, p. 3. {{NM}} tells Gelmis that if the movie version of [[84.17]] is a success, he’d
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...to the Editor. ''Cape Cod Voice'', 5–18 December, 47. In a brief letter, {{NM}}, who named and co-founded ''The Village Voice'' in 1955, expressed his su
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...three-way struggle among God, the Devil and humanity. Booth states that {{NM}} stabbed his wife with a steak knife, an error that a competent reporter c
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Dear Susan,<ref>In this letter to fan Susan Abrams, {{NM}} is referring to the film version of the novel. Friends told him it was aw
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...by Michael Kilian. ''Chicago Tribune'', 4 November, Sec. 2 (“Tempo”), 2. {{NM}} and [[William Kennedy]] discuss adaptations of their novels to screen at
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...frey Michelson''' was influenced by two geniuses. In 1967, he was Norman {{NM}}’s houseboy/sparring partner; in 1970, John Lennon appointed him Apple R
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...s very brief interview on the forthcoming ''Oswald’s Tale'' ([[95.16]]), {{NM}} says, “I think he did it by himself, but I think he was leaned on by th
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...hip''. By Dwayne Raymond. New York: HarperCollins, 26 January. Memoir of {{NM}}’s last days in Provincetown by his assistant from 2003 to Mailer’s de
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...ne stands on 30 April. Solomon rebuts some of the feminist criticisms of {{NM}}’s words and deeds at the PEN Congress made in [[86.18]] and [[86.24]].
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...s.” Article by Madalynne Reuter. ''Publishers’ Weekly'', 24 January, 18. {{NM}} and Shultz are quoted in this round-up article on the controversy surroun
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...by Jay Rosen. ''Huffington Post'', 28 June. Rosen attempts to encourage {{NM}} to start blogging, and quotes him: “In the ’50s, you couldn’t get a
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...f Books'', 26 February, 19–20, 22. Six letters, 1953–1955, written while {{NM}} was writing ''The Deer Park'' ([[55.4]]), or just afterwards. Four are to
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...Guys Don’t Dance.” Interview with Joe Leydon. ''Houston Post'', 12 July. {{NM}} says that his intention was to make a film “that didn’t fit into a co
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...''Der Spiegel''. Published Sometime in May or June. Six-page transcript. {{NM}} speaks at length about the “Christian warrior,” George W. Bush, and h
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...man Mailer.” By Peter DePree. ''Bloomsbury Review'', March-April, 3, 10. {{NM}} reveals who he was with when he first heard J.F.K. had been shot (Norman
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...an.” Article-interview by Pete Pavia. ''New York Post'', 28 January, 47. {{NM}} says, “I can’t say that Milton’s imagination had too much influence
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...rt of a 20 February meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association at which {{NM}} spoke and answered questions from the audience. His comments ranged from
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...53 writers. Compiled by Daniel Halpern. ''Antaeus'' 62 (spring), 232-44. {{NM}} lists the following: Jorge Luis Borges, John Dos Passos, Fyodor Dostoevsk
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...ovember, “Showtime” Sec., p. 1. Prior to speaking at Macalester College, {{NM}} spoke to Grossman about [[95.38]]. The piece is most memorable for a surp
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...' (Toronto), 14 September, Sec. C, p. 12. In Canada for a film festival, {{NM}} is quoted briefly on Ryan O’Neal and the similarities between ''Tough G
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...k, ''San Francisco Chronicle'', 20 September, 19–20; cover photograph of {{NM}}. Another piece based on Mailer’s Toronto visit. Mailer again discusses
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...Daughter.” Report on the Actors Studio staging of “Strawhead,” a play by {{NM}} and Richard Hannum adapted from ''Of Women and Their Elegance'' ([[80.15]
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...is Full of Bile.” Letter to the editor. ''New York Post'', 25 July, 20. {{NM}} responds to a 21 July column by Garry Wills in which he speaks of Mailer
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...ticle-interview by Debbie Forman. ''Cape Cod Times'', 15 January, C1-C2. {{NM}} tells Forman that “Hitler was the Devil’s answer to Jesus. I’m sayi
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...Writing.” Article-interview by Hillel Italie. AP wire story, 29 January. {{NM}} talks frankly about his various impairments, and how he sees aging “as
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...-interview by Stephen M. Silverman. ''New York Post'', 21 September, 31. {{NM}} credits John Bailey, his cinematographer for ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance''
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.../Faulkner Foundation. New York, Bloomsbury, 2000. “When you’re writing,” {{NM}} says in his preface to this brief excerpt describing Provincetown in the
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...k] Daily News,” indicating where this piece first appeared. Cook, an old {{NM}} hand, places ''Harlot’s Ghost'' ([[91.26]]) in the context of Mailer’
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...obert Hilferty. ''Bloomberg'', 7 February. Asked if he has any regrets, {{NM}} said that at 84, “you regret things much less. You rue them a little. Y
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...ed edition. New York: St. Martin’s, November. Brief approving comment by {{NM}} on Burroughs. The first edition (New York: Seaver Books, distributed by G
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{{NM}} covers the 1996 political conventions in the summer. His report on them a
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...Issues.” Article by Ann Wood. ''Provincetown Banner'', 29 July 2004, 3. {{NM}} interrupted Ann Goodman, a long-winded speaker, to urge everyone to suppo
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...ngland Review'' 20 (summer), 138–148. In mid-March 1998 in Provincetown, {{NM}} spoke of the genesis of ''The Time of Our Time'' ([[98.7]]) and the relat
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...ennedy (ASK) held in Dallas in late November 1992, including quotes from {{NM}}’s keynote address. Smith notes that Mailer is working on a new book on
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...ight. ''Boston Phoenix'', 3 September, 28–30, 32. Contains an account of {{NM}}’s appearance at a symposium in Provincetown, and an earlier conversatio
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...Middlebrook. San Francisco: Bay Books, 1976. Extended personal essay on {{NM}}’s ties to American romantics, including a comic account of [[A Conversa
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...ter. Column by Tim Allis. ''People Weekly'', 5 January, 92. Allis quotes {{NM}} from the Italian newspaper ''La Republica'' on the film he is poised to d
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...Jay Carr. ''Boston Globe'', 17 September, 85, 88. In an expansive mood, {{NM}} talks about his first visit to Provincetown in the early 40s, Jean-Luc Go
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...Career'', by George Plimpton, passim. New York: Random House, December. {{NM}} (along with most of the New York literary world) is quoted several times
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...e Cabral, art collector and owner of the Atlantic House in Provincetown. {{NM}} read from his poems and ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' ([[84.17]]).
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...writer. Agence-France-Presses wire story. 31 January. Brief story about {{NM}} reading at a New York bookstore on January 28. Mailer snapped at a questi
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...iption for Rebellion'' (New York: Rinehart, 1952). Lindner (1914-56) and {{NM}} met in 1953 and became close friends.
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...s Campbell. ''Times Literary Supplement'', 25 November. Brief mention of {{NM}} receiving an award for “distinguished contribution to American letters,
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...ridge, MA: DaCapo Press. Focus is on violence, the craft of writing, and {{NM}}’s views of several other writers, Vidal and Capote, most notably. Rpt:
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...].” Article by Anthony Lane. ''New Yorker'', 4 May, 96–98, 100, 102–033. {{NM}} is quoted briefly in this article on Lego bricks, and a color photograph
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...loyd Sachs. ''Chicago Sun-Times'', 30 October, Sec. 2 (“Lifestyle”), 31. {{NM}} compares his work to that of a cobbler—”You’re doing your best to m
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...the U.S.S.R., now capital of Belarus) gave Gallagher comments about him. {{NM}} is quoted briefly only to say that he cannot discuss his book-in-progress
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...May, Sec. I (“Arts”), pp. 1–2. Interviewed at Random House in New York, {{NM}} gives full measure in this piece, speaking of the myriad aesthetic, philo
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...Article by Paul Grondahl. ''Albany Times-Union'', 14 November. Report on {{NM}} being named New York State author, and Audre Lorde state poet. Governor M
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...at the time of the interview the editor-in-chief of this magazine. It is {{NM}}’s most extensive interview on his ideas about and experience with marij
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...up of new doings on the Oswald/J.F.K./conspiracy front, with quotes from {{NM}} and Gerald Posner, author of ''Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Ass
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...The Faith of Graffiti''. Photographs by [[w:Jon Naar|Jon Naar]]. Text by {{NM}}. Dey Street Books, New York: HarperCollins, 29 December. 128 pp., $19.99.
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...nton].” ''Washington Post'', 24 May, A25. In this 1500-word op-ed piece, {{NM}} criticizes the Clinton Administration’s bombing campaign in Kosovo and
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Wild thought. The atom bomb may actually have kicked off hipsterism.{{refn|{{NM}} was perhaps the first writer to apprehend the causal links between the bo
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...ary Higgins Clark, Susan Baker, Joel Meyerowitz and a half-dozen others, {{NM}} talks about the Cape. “All through the war,” he said, “I dreamed of
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No dedication. Forty-nine of the most important {{NM}} essays, 1948–2006, including one previously unpublished: “Freud,” a
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...w, this piece reveals little new about [[95.16]]. Dumas does report that {{NM}} was thinking of writing a novel about a concentration camp after finishin
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At the invitation of [[w:John Irving|John Irving]], {{NM}}, [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris]] and [[w:George Plimpton|George Plimpton]
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...e Oxymorons.” ''George'', November, 128–139, 164, 166, 168–170, 172–173. {{NM}}’s first appearance in ''George''. Nonfiction narrative on the Republica
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...nterview by Rita Kempley. ''Washington Post'', 18 May, Sec. C, pp. 1, 3. {{NM}} is quoted briefly on ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' (which was screened out
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...tje'' (Manchester UP, 2009). He is currently completing a book on Norman {{NM}} for Manchester UP.
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...Insights'', May, 1. A second piece drawn from the same January visit to {{NM}}’s home in Brooklyn Heights. Mailer describes Marina Oswald, whom he int
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...ers Germans].” Article-interview by Jess Smee. ''Guardian'', 29 January. {{NM}}’s Hitler novel was criticized by the vice president of Germany’s infl
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...nterview by Douglas Brinkley. ''New York Times'', 26 April 2005, E1, E7. {{NM}} answers question about the sale of his papers to the Harry Ransom Center
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...iler.” Article-interview by Stephanie Schorow. ''Boston Herald'', 2 May. {{NM}} comments on [[97.13]] in this brief interview, including a comment on the
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“He Just Can’t Forget.” Caption for photos of {{NM}} and [[w:Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn Monroe]]. No author. ''Boston Herald'', 6
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...sides his comment about the qualities of a woman presidential candidate, {{NM}} reveals that he is working on a new book: “It’s a secret what this bo
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...interview by Alastair McKay. ''The Scotsman'', S2 Weekend, 22 July, 2–5. {{NM}} speaks at length about the opportunities and pitfalls of celebrity: “It
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...Article-interview by Gerald Peary. ''Sight and Sound'', spring, 104–107. {{NM}} speaks of his earlier films, the pleasures of filmmaking, with an aside o
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...ington D.C. book party hosted by the National Intelligence Study Center, {{NM}} said he had written 100 pages of a spy novel (''Harlot’s Ghost'', [[91.
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...''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' near the final day (13 December) of shooting, {{NM}} talks about the play he was almost in at Harvard, his longtime affiliatio
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...the work of five American authors in that period, one of whom was Norman {{NM}}.
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...iew by Jennifer L. Farbar. ''Esquire'', June, 238–240, 243–244, 247–250. {{NM}} discusses a string of related topics with the daughter of his friend, Buz
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...'', no. 22, March/April, 115–128. Wide-ranging and thoughtful probing of {{NM}}’s political commitments and how they evolved in the face of assassinati
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...thew. ''The Daily Campus'' (Southern Methodist University), 20 November. {{NM}} read from ''The Gospel According to the Son'' ([[97.13]]), and also spoke
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...ie’s First Collection of Stories].” ''Provincetown Arts'' 10 (July), 59. {{NM}}’s 1977 blurb for ''The Wine Cellar'', a collection of stories by his la
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...sso.” Article-interview by Pete Hamill. ''Art News'', November, 208–213. {{NM}} talks about his relationship with the painters of Provincetown and Greenw
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...dom House in Association with the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust. {{NM}} and 25 other writers provide reflections on the letters of the alphabet.
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...942 play]].” ''Mailer Review'', 34–43. Act 3, scene 3 from the play that {{NM}} wrote from 31 August to 14 September 1942, and based on his experience wo
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Letter to the Editor. ''The Humanist'', July/August. {{NM}}’s updates his definition of what a humanist is (his old one appeared in
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...swering questions after the showing of a documentary film profiling him, {{NM}} was asked to name his most important work. He said that ''Ancient Evening
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...ectic of Erotic Risk.” ''Studies in the Novel'' 22 (spring 1990), 67–81. {{NM}} explains his “spoof” of identifying a passage from ''The Deer Park''
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...on. Except for his poem “Gladiators: For Hemingway” ([[74.16]]), this is {{NM}}’s only contribution to the ''New Republic''. His report on the 1992 Dem
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...erview by Hillel Italie. AP wire story, ''Chicago Tribune'', 5 July, 3C. {{NM}} speaks of the pleasure and perils of the literary life and bemoans his la
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...dig deeper into the personality of Jesus, as he had with Marilyn Monroe, {{NM}} said, “I wanted to tell the story, I wanted to reach people. I wanted t
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...'Nation'', 1 February, 116–119. Angry piece on the PEN Congress in which {{NM}} is described as “unruly,” “overbearing,” “authoritarian,” dis
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...23 January, 60. Speaking at a New York City retrospective of his films, {{NM}} commented on how the staged hammer attack in ''[[w:Maidstone (film)|Maids
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...]. ''Provincetown Arts'' 14 (summer), 138–148. In a major interview with {{NM}}’s friend and neighbor and editor of this magazine, Mailer speaks longer
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...the PEN Congress, including comment on the media coverage of the event. {{NM}} is quoted throughout. Two other articles on the PEN Congress appear in th
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...con'' (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), 8 April. Internet. Report of {{NM}}’s 6 September speech at the University Center. His theme, again, was sp
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...ork Times'', 27 January, Sec. C, p. 24. Summary of the PEN Congress from {{NM}}’s perspective. He discusses the conference’s theme, “The Writer’s
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...etti introduced him to Mailer in the 1980s, and how they became friends. {{NM}} tells him that he wrestled with the narrative voice of ''The Castle in th
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“Mailer’s Gut Reaction.” Squib in ''New'' 29 June-6 July, 19. {{NM}} is quoted about hitting ''New Republic'' publisher, Marty Peretz in the s
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...” (New York) ''Daily News'', 27 September, 8. Column by Richard Johnson. {{NM}} is quoted on his response to John Simon’s review of [[91.26]]: “I’m
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...15. In a wide-ranging discussion on film and the horrors of modern life, {{NM}} also explains how the writing process has changed for him over the years:
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...Told.” Article by Alex Bellos. ''Guardian'', 23 September, 3. Account of {{NM}} speaking to 200 people in a London cinema about ''The Gospel According to
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Interview by Michael K. Glenday, 21 October 1991; and {{NM}} letter to him, 10 December 1993. In ''Norman Mailer'', by Michael K. Glen
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...te.” Column by Brad Wieners. ''Bay Guardian'', December, 3. Encountering {{NM}} at a cocktail party on 6 November in San Francisco, Wieners tells him tha
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...at Carnegie Hall, with Charlie Rose as the master of ceremonies. All of {{NM}}’s children, his sister, nephew, and many friends and relatives speak at
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.... Berrien Springs, Mich.: Berrien Springs High School, April-May. Essay. {{NM}} and several other professional writers, including Sara Paretsky, T. Corag
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...y Don Graham. ''Texas Monthly'', November, 94, 96, 105, 108. Overview of {{NM}}’s career with comments about the sale of his papers. Mailer is quoted,
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...m McCarthy. ''Life in Provincetown'' magazine, 14 August, 10–11, 14, 22. {{NM}}’s comments are evenly divided between his warm memories of Provincetown
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...ward Goodman. ''Times Leader'' (Wilkes-Barre, PA), 14 May, 3E. Report on {{NM}}’s appearance in Bruce Kuklick’s history class at University of Pennsy
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...ember of the [[Norman Mailer Society]] and has maintained an interest in {{NM}}’s works since first reading ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' in 1968.
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...Globe, 18 May, 24, 27. Another article on the Cannes Film Festival with {{NM}} again comparing directing and writing: “My idea of an ideal life at thi
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...in ''The Castle in the Forest'' ([[07.10]]) diminishes his culpability, {{NM}} said, “I don’t think I changed the equation. What’s important is th
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...nd Jewish middle-class.{{refn|In ''[[The Armies of the Night]]'' (1968), {{NM}} states that the only part of his personality he finds to be “absolutely
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...''Harlot’s Ghost'' ([[91.26]]) at Random House. In regard to the sequel, {{NM}} said, “I promised before to write books that I never wrote, so I’m le
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...cle by Emily C. Dooley. ''Cape Cod Times'', 11 July. The writer observes {{NM}}’s writing workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. The br
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...” Article by Joe Flaherty. ''Village Voice'', 24 April, 1, 59. Flaherty, {{NM}}’s campaign manager, tells the same story as Maas does in [[69.7]], and
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...e, 1991. Softcover, no pagination. In his evocative three-page foreword, {{NM}} calls Pabst’s 45 photographs of this empty (and later razed) resort hot
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...century French President. Asked which historical figure he most admires, {{NM}} answered, “Hemingway. His suicide suggested the unseen perils of my pro
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...plies.” Letter to the editor. ''New York Review of Books'', 13 July, 61. {{NM}} replies to the letter (in the same issue) of J. Herbie DiFonzo concerning
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...at the Park Avenue apartment of Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg, attended by {{NM}}, Allen Ginsberg, Frances FitzGerald, Elaine Kaufman, Donald Trump, Vartan
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...ticle-interview by Paul Slansky. ''New York'', 3 December, 6. Account of {{NM}}’s exchanges with a line of people at a Manhattan B. Dalton bookstore wh
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...vening.” Article by Andrew Hultkrans. ''ArtForum'', 27 April. Account of {{NM}} receiving the Hadada Award from the ''Paris Review'', presented by E. L.
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...ed for years, this behemoth was never written, one of several such works {{NM}} projected.}} The form could be the Fuck, The Orgy, and the Masturbation,
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...une–14 July, 84, 85, 88, 90, 92, 94, 95, 162, 166. Retrospective Look at {{NM}}’s career by a professional biographer on the occasion of the sale of hi
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...een Rice. ''A & L Magazine'' (Ardmore, PA), 6 June, 6–7. Thin account of {{NM}}’s visit and speech at Haverford School, with a few quotes and several e
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...cle-interview by Joseph Berger. ''New York Times'', 2 May. A portrait of {{NM}}’s Brooklyn Heights apartment, with his son [[Michael Mailer|Michael]] g
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...yn.” Letter to the editor. ''New York Times Book Review'', 30 April, 24. {{NM}} corrects errors in Mordecai Richler’s 26 March review of Scott Berg’s
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...Pioneer Press Dispatch'', 24 October. Telephone interview in advance of {{NM}}’s 24 October appearance at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Mailer c
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.... ''Boston Globe'', 14 November, 77, 82. In Boston to promote [[95.38]], {{NM}} visits Harvard’s Fogg Museum for the first time since 1943 when he took
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...le by Kirby F. Smith. ''Compass'' (Philadelphia), 30 March, 3. Report on {{NM}}’s visit to the “Urban Visions” class of Professor Witold Rybczynski
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...of ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' ([[84.17]]) are cited in this piece about {{NM}} at Cannes. Mailer says, “I think my film lies somewhere in a no-man’s
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...ns and international academic exchange. He is the author of the entry on {{NM}} in the German-language ''Kritisches Lexikon zur fremdsprachigen Gegenwart
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...ew by Bonnie Barber. ''Provincetown Advocate'', 18 December, 3, 30. Both {{NM}} and O’Neal are quoted in this piece about the making of ''Tough Guys Do
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...he Will Toils]].” Letter to the editor. ''Boston Globe'', 14 March, A14. {{NM}} excoriates George W. Will for equating the prose of President George W. B
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...Article-interview by Bob Minzesheimer. ''USA Today'', 15 January, 1D–2D. {{NM}} states that the incest he posits in Hitler’s family “can’t be prove
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...'Hazleton'' (Penn.) ''Standard-Speaker'', 20 November. Another report on {{NM}}’s speech at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The most n
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....” Article by unidentified writer. ''Vanity Fair'', October, 68, 72, 76. {{NM}} reveals here that Warren Beatty was his first choice to play Tim Madden i
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...en Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School of Communication. Besides {{NM}}, two Penn professors took part: Law School Professor Ed Baker and Communi
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...Article-interview by Bruce Barcott. ''Seattle Weekly'', 25 October, 19. {{NM}}, in Provincetown, is interviewed by telephone in anticipation of his appe
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...ory. ''M: The Civilized Man'', February, 79–83, 146; cover photograph of {{NM}}. Discussion of marriage, sex and ego with asides on Henry Miller, D.H. La
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...(1921-2000) was one of the creators of the television talk show. He and {{NM}} became friendly in the mid-1950s.}} talking while above his head girls wa
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...own to benefit the local repertory theater. Three of his children joined {{NM}} and his wife [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris]] in the reading. Mailer said,
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...ger Scott. Lake Forest, CA: Behler Publications. Memoir by the sister of {{NM}}'s first wife, [[Beatrice Silverman]]. “Sliver,” as she was called, wa
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...cle on the issue of underrepresentation of women on PEN Congress panels. {{NM}}, who was both praised and criticized for his work in organizing the confe
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...nge Morath. ''Critical Inquiry'' 13 (autumn), 1–32; cover photographs of {{NM}}, Stern, Secretary of State Shultz and Grace Paley. Long first-person acco
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...Observer'', 11 November, 28. Thoughtful essay, speckled with quotes from {{NM}}:
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...rl Sheffy Gefen. ''Lifestyles'' (International Edition), Vol. 92, 62–64. {{NM}} was interviewed by this Jewish cultural magazine during a visit to Montre
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...19 January, 48–51. Focus is on ''The Castle in the Forest'' ([[07.10]]) {{NM}} defends his depiction of Hitler’s origins: “If we can believe that Go
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...1 May. Thomas Staley, director of the Harry Ransom Center, described the {{NM}} papers as “the Platonic conception of what an archive should be.” Mai
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...Edited by J. Peder Zane. New York: Norton, 95. In an accompanying note, {{NM}} said that with the exceptions of Thomas Mann’s ''Buddenbrooks'' and Jor
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...', October, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162. The keel of this piece is {{NM}}’s Alpha-Omega personality theory from [[91.26]]. Thompson interviews Ma
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...k: Viking, 1987. The English edition appeared in 1986. Amis’s chapter on {{NM}} (which contains excerpts from two conversations he had with him), consist
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...ich focused on vague, abstract topic, addressed by long-winded speakers. {{NM}}’s comment: “When a French savant encounters a guest who fills him wit
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...dation PEN Award for his first novel, ''Hasen''. Introducing the author, {{NM}} said, “The exquisite pain of girding oneself to go out and face the wor
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...e-Up'' (New York) ''Daily News'', 20 September, 1–2; cover photograph of {{NM}}. Most of Mailer’s comments are given over to his relations with the cas
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...r than Ever.” Interview by Bonnie Angelo. ''Time'', 30 September, 68–69. {{NM}} speaks more of politics than literature, touching on George Bush, the Cla
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...p. 6. Consists of a couple of brief quotes taken from the transcript of {{NM}}’s television interview with David Frost. When Frost suggested that Mail
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...[[w:Robert Fulford (journalist)|Robert Fulford]]. The panel consisted of {{NM}}, [[w:Marshall McLuhan|Marshall McLuhan]] and [[w:Malcolm Muggeridge|Malco
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...eiving an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at Wilkes University, {{NM}} said that if President Bill Clinton based his 1996 election campaign on b
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...b Minzesheimer. ''USA Today'', 6 May, Sec. D (“Life”), 1–2; cover story. {{NM}} discusses [[98.7]] and reveals that the first printing was 25,000 copies.
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...Voice'', 2–5 August, 12–13, 53–54. Long, penetrating interview in which {{NM}} discusses the shape of his career, John Cheever, his Provincetown friend,
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...e by Frazier Moore. AP wire story, 28 February. Report on a TV interview {{NM}} did with Melvyn Bragg on Picasso and television. He says that Picasso was
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...Caskie Stinnett, rpt. ''Vanity Fair'', July 1987, 115. Perelman recounts {{NM}}’s appearance as a presenter at the 1977 Academy Awards ceremony on 29 M
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...nto’s Festival of Festivals, where ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' was shown, {{NM}} spoke to Groen about the 80s, yuppies, the coming end of communism in Rus
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...by Frank DiGiacomo and Joanna Molloy. ''New York Post'', 21 October, 6. {{NM}} and William Styron deny that Mailer, in 1954, spoke with admiration about
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...Norris Church Mailer]]. New York: Random House, 10 April 2010. Memoir by {{NM}}’s sixth wife, who he was married to for 27 years. Includes numerous rem
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...t.” Article by Marc Cooper. ''L.A. Weekly'', 27 February-6 March. Quotes {{NM}}’s comments on the Iraq War at a 22 February luncheon at the home of Sta
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...In this transcribed telephone interview, Leighton, a theologian, presses {{NM}} on his motives for writing the narrative and what effects his retelling w
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...is Bite].” Article by Scott Timberg. ''Los Angeles Times'', 26 February. {{NM}} answered questions from poet Carol Muske-Dukes at the Skirball Cultural C
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...p Roth, Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Joyce Carol Oates, Gloria Naylor and {{NM}}, who won the 1969 award in the arts and letters category for ''The Armies
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...'']], by Luke Breit, 5–8. Fort Bragg, CA: Q.E.D. Press, 1989. Softcover. {{NM}} praises Bret (son of Mailer’s friend, the late Harvey Breit) for being
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...Wall Street Journal'', 25 July, Sec. A, p. 3. Quarter-page photograph of {{NM}} by Nancy Crampton (same as on dustwrapper of [[95.16]]) with the followin
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...es quotes from an unlocated Carole Mallory interview in L.A. magazine on {{NM}}’s deal with Cannon Films to star, along with his daughter Kate, in Jean
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...23 September, Sec. C, pp. 1, 4. Focused interview on [[91.26]] in which {{NM}} explains that, initially, “I was going to write about [James Jesus] Ang
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...” Article-interview by Michael Lee. ''Cape Cod Voice'', 30 January, 1–2. {{NM}} talks mainly about the writing process, best sellers, writing courses, an
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Untitled squib in ''People'', 17 April, 34. Account of {{NM}} and [[w:Truman Capote|Truman Capote]] at a Manhattan party celebrating a
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...g at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center during his fourth visit to Wilkes, {{NM}} centered his comments on the writing life. “Characters must keep develo
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...d fourteen letters, 1940 to 2007, selected from the approximately 45,000 {{NM}} wrote over his lifetime. Includes an introduction, 90 pages of notes, a s
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...''San Francisco Chronicle'', 17 October, Sec. E (“Datebook”), pp. 1, 4. {{NM}} sticks closely to the nature of the CIA and his motives for writing [[91.
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...er. Internet. Speaking on 30 November at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium, {{NM}} focused on advertising, television and the Internet, repeating his often-
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...[[w:National Arts Club|National Arts Club]] banquet in New York at which {{NM}} was awarded the club’s Medal of Honor for Literature. Mailer is quoted
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“The Party.” Excerpt from an unidentified interview with {{NM}}. ''Rolling Stone'', December 30, 110. In this brief piece, Mailer discuss
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...” Article-interview by Debbie Forman. ''Cape Cod View'', 20 July, 21–25. {{NM}} looks back at his years in Provincetown, recalling that when he was in th
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...Associated Press writer. ''Newport'' (R.I.) ''Daily News'', 14 November. {{NM}} is quoted briefly in this report on his 13 November appointment by Govern
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...Article-interview by Alan Richman. ''People Weekly'', 5 October, 40–42. {{NM}} says little new about his film in this piece, but he does discuss the wri
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...wo Views.” ''New York Review of Books'', 13 February, 23–25. Consists of {{NM}}’s 12 January address at the opening of the PEN Congress, and Nadine Gor
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...ond report on the staged reading of “Don Juan in Hell” at Carnegie Hall. {{NM}}, Gore Vidal and Gay Talese are quoted. Mailer says, “I know Gore well e
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...Rushdie|Salman Rushdie]] by [[w:Ayatollah Khomeini|Ayatollah Khomeini]], {{NM}}, via a spokeswoman (his assistant Judith McNally), said, “Any concerns
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...ief exploration of the word audacity as it applies to the literary life. {{NM}} values the trait, but says that “to be bold in everything you do, howev
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...n the final days of shooting ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' in Provincetown. {{NM}}, Ryan O’Neal, producer Tom Luddy and Lawrence Tierney are quoted. Provi
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...calls “arguably the greatest combat novel ever written by an American.” {{NM}} says, “The Second World War was a watershed. Everything is of it, befor
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...'', 12 May, Sec. 5 (“Tempo”), pp. 1, 5. In Chicago to promote [[97.13]], {{NM}} talks to Galloway and appears on WGN radio’s “Extension 720” with i
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...lks at length about the future of digital publishing, and also describes {{NM}} when he first knew him: “Brilliant, difficult, dangerous . . . You neve
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...nt to hear” from a variety of writers. The project was abandoned. One of {{NM}}’s proposals was to limit advertising. Mailer also called for the elimin
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...Francisco Chronicle'', 25 February, D1, D8. Account of a Q and A after a {{NM}} speech before the Commonwealth Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisc
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...Pennsylvania), May-June. After being introduced by [[Robert F. Lucid]], {{NM}} answered questions at the Kelly Writers House on the University of Pennsy
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...piece by E.R. Shipp. ''New York Daily News'', 18 February. Shipp quotes {{NM}}’s comments about excessive patriotism from an unnamed British newspaper
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...r. ''Brooklyn Heights Press and Cobble Hill News'', 10 September, 1, 16. {{NM}} speaks again of how his film cuts across categories, his previous films,
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....” Article by Walter Goodman. ''New York Times'', 17 May, Sec. C, p. 20. {{NM}} is only paraphrased in this piece, which describes his attempt to convinc
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...ation, on the politics of growth in the fiction and nonfiction of Norman {{NM}}, was completed at University College Dublin in 2014. He writes regularly
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...Adele]], but scant comment on drugs for a magazine devoted to the topic. {{NM}} is only slightly avuncular with the 23-year old [[w:Legs McNeil|McNeil]].
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...s'', 29 June. Speaking at the New York Public Library with Günter Grass, {{NM}} defended Grass for belatedly revealing that he had served in the Waffen-S
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...Article-interview by Allan Hunter. ''Films and Filming'', January, 6–7. {{NM}} says that he hopes his film version of ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' ([[84
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...find the good in monsters and psychopaths.{{refn|A prophetic statement. {{NM}}’s fictional heroes and biographical subjects include monsters such as [
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...''Moment: Jewish Politics, Culture & Religion'', June, 30–35, 60. One of {{NM}}’s longest discussions of the Holocaust and its effects. In the 1950s, t
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...is published on 11 January by Little, Brown, the first of eight books by {{NM}} to be published by this firm. It is later nominated for the National Book
On 30 April, {{NM}} takes part in a contentious and humorous discourse, “A Dialogue on Wome
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...anhattan.” Interview by [[Michael Mailer]]. ''Details'', January, 64–67. {{NM}} recalls the Manhattan of his earlier years, including going to Harlem on
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...[07.10]]) is published. Reviewed widely and with much praise, it becomes {{NM}}’s 11th best seller. He remains the only postwar American author to have
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...lution].” Article by Fiachra Gibbons. ''Guardian'', 15 August. Report on {{NM}}’s appearance at the Edinburg Literary Festival. Mailer said, “Women h
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...'', by Sally Soames, 9. San Francisco: Chronicle Books; London: Deutsch. {{NM}} praises Soames, who uses only available light, in his 454-word preface to
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“Mailer’s Side.” Letter to the editor. ''Arkansas Times'', 7 July, 6. {{NM}} corrects comments by Crescent Dragonwagon, daughter of Maurice Zolotow, c
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...on ''The Deer Park'']].” ''Mailer Review'', 44–76. Sixteen letters from {{NM}} to friends and associates, including William Styron, Robert Lindner, Mick
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...Herr, Robert Stone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tim O’Brien, and Larry Heinemann. {{NM}}’s interview contains extended discussion of the Vietnam War, WWII, and
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...ike, 156–197. New York: Columbia University Press, early May. Along with {{NM}}, the following ten individuals contributed chapters to this 1898–1997 h
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...ld, Ill.) ''State Journal-Register'', 15 November, 2. Brief item quoting {{NM}} on the occasion of being named New York State Author by Gov. [[w:Mario Cu
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...I never read more than a hundred pages of ''Ulysses'',{{refn|At Harvard, {{NM}} read up through “Calypso,” the fourth chapter of James Joyce’s 1922
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...story, ''Arkansas Gazette'', 4 October, 10G. The most notable remarks by {{NM}} in this piece concerns screenplay writing, and the agony novelists endure
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...el Ventura. ''L.A. Weekly'', 18–24 September, 14–21; cover photograph of {{NM}}. Ventura combines a fine interview in California with his remembrance of
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...e-interview by John Freeman. ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', 26 January. {{NM}} says that one early review of ''The Castle in the Forest'' ([[07.10]]) sa
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...” Article by Gary Shapiro. ''New York Sun'', 23 September. An account of {{NM}}’s reading of his poems, followed by a conversation with [[J. Michael Le
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...r'', 21 May, 30–31. Account of a reunion of some of the cast and crew of {{NM}}’s 1987 film, ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'' ([[84.17]]) at his Brooklyn a
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...d Howard. ''New York Times Book Review'', 26 August 2007, 27. Account of {{NM}} being interviewed at the Walter Reade Theater of Lincoln Center by Michae
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...{LJ:Susan}} was so flat with Millie{{refn|A friend and distant cousin of {{NM}}’s, Millie Brower had the lead in his {{date|1947}} experimental film, '
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...with only flesh wounds and the odd night waking up screaming. Rare among {{NM}}’s friends, he was and is a conservative, a juxtaposition the two endles
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...rd. ''Times Saturday'' (London), 12 October, 16–17; cover photographs of {{NM}} by Graham Wood. In preparation for the British publication of [[91.26]],
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...ith Jeane MacIntosh and Sean Gannon. ''New York Post'', 15 September, 6. {{NM}} responds to comments by Carole Mallory that she is writing a biography, t
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...ys.’” Article-interview by Todd McCarthy. ''Variety'', 4 May, 2, 13, 14. {{NM}} discusses the various screenplays he has written: ''King Lear'' for Jean-
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...in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at which [[J. Michael Lennon]] interviewed {{NM}}. Asked about the 1950s, Mailer said [ellipses in original]:
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...e Son'' ([[97.13]]). Interviewed in New York just before Christmas 1996, {{NM}} discusses his Jewishness, the causes, source materials and language of th
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...Macmillan, 10 October. Whitmer’s piece is based on an 80s interview with {{NM}} focusing on “The White Negro” ([[57.1]]). Along the way, Mailer provi
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...aling piece full of thoughtful exchanges. For example, when Dougary asks {{NM}} if he has succeeded in delivering on his early promise, he replies,
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...ith Norman Mailer.” Self-interview. ''Cosmopolitan'', May, 332–333, 404. {{NM}} explains in a headnote that the questions he answers are a mixture of his
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...nterview on [[95.16]], covering all major aspects of the book, including {{NM}}’s lucid explanation of his six months with [[Lawrence Schiller]] in Min
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...terview by Karen Jaehne. ''Film Comment'' 23 (November-December), 11–17. {{NM}} says more on filmmaking, and says it well, in this interview than in any
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...cle by Mark Fisk. ''Herald-Palladium'' (St. Joseph, MI), 17 May, 1A, 4a. {{NM}} defended his latest novel, ''The Gospel According to the Son'' ([[97.13]]
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...y Evans, to celebrate the publication of ''Harlot’s Ghost'' ([[91.26]]). {{NM}} was extolled by Evans, Richard Snyder of Simon and Schuster and Salman Ru
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...iews with other writers on the subject of [[91.26]]. The piece ends with {{NM}}’s comment on self-pity: “Who ever committed murder or incest without
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...nd Rob Kaplan. New York: Random House. Asked to list his favorite books, {{NM}} listed ten, in the following order: ''U.S.A.'', ''The Adventures of Huckl
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...any Untruths.” Letter to the Editor. ''Provincetown Banner'', 16 May, 8. {{NM}} comments on Sue Harrison’s review of Peter Manso’s portrait of Provin
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...in gets comments on the set of ''Tough Guys Don’t Dance'', not only from {{NM}}, but from set designer Armin Ganz, the mixer, Drew Kunin, the makeup arti
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...eley’s comments and questions in this important piece is the many novels {{NM}} planned but did not write, including the “big novel” he worked on in
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...English professor at New York State University College at Oswego, wanted {{NM}}’s opinion of the film version.</ref>
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...e. ''Newport'' (R.I.) ''Daily News'', 24 January, C-9. Advance report of {{NM}}’s comments on the [[w:David Frost|David Frost]] 24 January television p
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...d fourteen letters, 1940 to 2007, selected from the approximately 50,000 {{NM}} wrote over his lifetime.
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...by Alan W. Petrucelli. ''Cape Cod Times'', 20 November, Sec. C, pp. 1–2. {{NM}} again speaks of the painters he knew in Provincetown—Franz Kline, Hans
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...31]], this piece is based on a Random House meeting of six reporters and {{NM}} in late September to discuss [[91.26]]. Asked if Kittredge was a response
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...iler.” Profile-interview by J. Rentily. ''Razor'' magazine, June, 54–55. {{NM}} speaks of his desire to continue writing: “There are so many books to w
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...s. ''Poets & Writers'', March-April, 40–45. Excellent interview in which {{NM}} comments on his lack of involvement in the writing and editing of his wif
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...in’ Norman Defends his ‘Castle.’] ” ''New York Daily News'', 26 January. {{NM}} extends his feud with ''New York Times'' critic Michiko Kakutani in his c
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“Father to Son: What I've learned about Rage.” A conversation between {{NM}} and his son [[John Buffalo Mailer|John Buffalo]]. ''New York'', 9 August,
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....” Article-interview by Clive Sinclair. ''Jewish Chronicle'', 3 October. {{NM}} discusses his intentions for ''The Gospel According to the Son'' ([[97.13
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...he same telephone interview as [[95.25]], this piece gives more space to {{NM}}’s comments comparing Oswald to Timothy McVeigh. He says,
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...imself.” Snippet by Jennifer Greenstein. ''Brill’s Content'', April, 40. {{NM}} provided a blurb for a book, ''Passionate Sex: Discover the Special Power
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...y Dylan Foley. ''Denver Post'', 28 January. Interviewed in Provincetown, {{NM}} says, “Hitler has always been very real to me and frightening. There is
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...y Andrea Ahles. ''Daily Pennsylvanian'', 23 March, 1, 7. Brief report on {{NM}}’s 22 March reading at University of Pennsylvania’s Harrison Auditoriu
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...tional’s ''Books and Writing''. Based on an interview she conducted with {{NM}} at the Edinburgh International book Festival. First broadcast on 1 Septem
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...imes'', 28 August, 8. At an Art Institute party for ''George'' magazine, {{NM}} mingled with celebrities, including [[w:John F. Kennedy Jr.|John F. Kenne
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...Rosenthal, 28–29, 184. New York: Lospecchio Press. Rpt: The comments of {{NM}} and the other speakers at the dinner are excerpted from a transcript of t
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...'Harlot’s Ghost''.” ''Esquire'', July, 80–82, 84–90; cover photograph of {{NM}}. First advance excerpt from then-unpublished novel ([[91.26]]) of the sam
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...teaching at Louisiana State University, the school’s literary magazine, {{NM}} wrote an 800-word piece that recalls his first meeting with James Jones i
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...Robert F. Lucid]].” Authorized biography, with extensive quotations from {{NM}}’s unpublished letters, interviews with him, and with 85 others—his fa
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...his 80th birthday and the publication of ''The Spooky Art'' ([[03.7]]), {{NM}} talks in Provincetown about the coming war in Iraq and the diminishing po
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...(U.K), 14 August. Internet. While attending the Edinburgh book festival, {{NM}} attacked the disparity of wealth in America, and the complicity of Pres.
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To condemn. To condeMN. Or NM. Norman Mailer, or in society Mailer, Norman which is MN which is conde Mn.
...ample angry is ''enojo'', and red is ''rojo''. Anyway, back to condemn and NM. This entire note came out of the curiosity I felt about leaving out the N
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...ble issue contains all the statements made by 25 individuals, members of {{NM}}’s family and his friends, at the 9 April 9, 2008 memorial program for M
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...Sunday'' (London), 24 September, 3. Brief piece based on an interview at {{NM}}’s Brooklyn Heights apartment. In a somewhat valedictory mood, he says,
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...S.C.: Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 24 September. {{NM}} and 26 other writers, including Margaret Atwood, Vance Bourjaily, Don DeL
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...ber was ‘larger than the atom bomb].{{' "}} BBC News interview, 4 April. {{NM}} says that Muslim culture and religiosity are “absolutely foreign to Ame
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...Rich. ''New York Times''. “Ideas and Trends,” 20 May, 3. Seven writers ({{NM}}, Christopher Buckley, Ann Patchett, Stephen King, Neal Pollack, Joyce Car
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...ew by Janet Chusmir. ''Miami Herald'', 13 February, 14G. Brief report on {{NM}}’s speech at Temple Israel. Mailer says he was making 20 speeches in 20
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|File:1935-NM-8th-grade-graduation.jpg|Mailer at his eighth grade graduation, 1935.
|File:1934-NM.jpg|Mailer, Brooklyn, c. 1936.
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In March, {{NM}} accepts the position of writer-at-large at ''Vanity Fair''.
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...e University of Pennsylvania for four days of lectures and class visits, {{NM}} began with a dialogue with students focusing on communism, capitalism, an
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Television may have some extraordinary quality{{refn|{{NM}} was intrigued by the possibility that television’s monotony had a deade
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...Speaking at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue in Westmount on 21 September, {{NM}} spoke about “the extraordinary complex burden of being Jewish,” and a
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...laine Sciolino. ''New York Times'', 3 February, Sec. A, p. 10. Report of {{NM}}’s visit to the CIA in Washington where he gave a standing-room-only lec
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...” 56 individuals were asked “Does fashion matter?” Some of those joining {{NM}} in answering were: Roy Blount Jr., Rev. Al Sharpton, Betty Friedan, Joan
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...od.” Article-interview by Sue Fox. ''Jewish Chronicle'', 29 June, 25–26. {{NM}} comments on Jews and the Holocaust in this piece. He compares New York Je
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...Hedy Weiss. ''Chicago Sun-Times'', 24 May, 1, 14. In this longish piece, {{NM}} talks about his time in the army, and his sensibility as a young man: “
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...York Times'', 4 February, Sec. B (“Living Arts”), p. 7. First report on {{NM}}’s forthcoming novel ''The Gospel According to the Son'' ([[97.13]]). In
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...s about life with the other person accompanies a photo of them together. {{NM}} states that [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris]] is “so strong, so beautiful
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...es Magazine'' (London), 19 September. A long, edited conversation between {NM}} and his close friend Dotson Rader about the devastating impact of 9/11 on
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...graphy, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life'' (Simon & Schuster), interviewed {{NM}} in his home in Provincetown on September 18, 2007, less than two months b
'''NM''': When did Bob Lindner die? Late 50s?
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...y Alexandra and [[w:Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.|Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.]], {{NM}} and [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris]], and Mailer’s sister [[Barbara Mail
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...owalter opens her review of three books on feminism-masculism by quoting {{NM}}’s comments about the number of women delegates at the PEN Congress: “
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...dner was a fluent writer, and his essay in an important magazine spurred {{NM}}’s competitive instincts.}} He has to wonder if I am going toward genius
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..., ''Sunday Bulletin'' (Philadelphia), 6 October, E6. Another report from {{NM}}’s mini-press conference with six reports at Random house in late Septem
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..., 1 November. “[[w:Geraldine Ferraro|Ferraro]] is a stunning candidate,” {{NM}} said, but will cost the Democrats the election. The Democrats, he said, s
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...unt by the Washington hostess who put on “the liberal party” attended by {{NM}}, Lowell, Macdonald, Paul Goodman and several others before the events chr
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|File:1958-NM.jpg|Beatnik Mailer in 1958.
|File:1957-NM-Danielle.jpg|Mailer and Danielle, his second daughter in 1957. Photo by Dan
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|File:1981 Norris and Mailer.jpg|Norris and NM, c. 1981.
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The tragic air of Mexico{{refn|{{NM}} usually spent two or three months every year from 1952–59, visiting [[w
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...Philadelphia Inquirer'', 24 March, Sec. B (“Metro”), pp. 1, 4. Report on {{NM}}’s conversation with the students in Professor Bruce Kuklick’s class,
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..., 19 April. After a lecture about Lee Harvey Oswald at Brown University, {{NM}} answered questions. Asked about his research trip to Russia with [[Larry
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...un-Times'', 12 May, 58. Speaking at the University of Chicago on 11 May, {{NM}} said that totalitarianism was taking over the country, pointing to archit
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...McWhirter. (Alton, Ill) ''Telegraph'', 22 April, C1. A second report on {{NM}}’s 20 April speech at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. After t
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...interview by Dan Cryer. 3 February, Newsday.com (subscription required). {{NM}} talks at some length about the matter of literary celebrity: “You devel
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...n Mailer. Transcript, dated 10 October, 13 pp. Publication date unknown. {{NM}} speaks of the stabbing of his wife [[Adele Morales|Adele]]: “Many years
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...pt the Soviet Union even in the height of my Wallace days{{refn|In 1948, {{NM}} campaigned for [[w:Henry A. Wallace|Henry A. Wallace]], the left-leaning
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...written on Molière, Marivaux, Alfred de Musset, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and {{NM}}. Her memoir, ''The Road to Epidauros'' was published by Author House in 2
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...da Suncoast Writers’ Conference after his keynote address on 6 February, {{NM}} said, “[[w:George W. Bush|George Bush]] must be defeated. He’s vain.
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...z. ''Provincetown Arts'' 3 (summer), 18-20, 116–117; cover photograph of {{NM}} by [[w:Joel Meyerowitz|Joel Meyerowitz]]. Interleaved perspectives by Bar
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...uincy, Mass.) ''Patriot Ledger'', 10 May. In this relatively brief piece {{NM}} tells Basbanes that his greatest risk in writing [[97.13]] was the prospe
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''Mailer: A Biography''. By Mary Dearborn: Houghton Mifflin, 9 December. {{NM}} declined to be interviewed for this book, the fourth full-length biograph
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...ronto Star'', 28 January, C04. Stoffman repeats the ancient factoid that {{NM}} was forced to use “fug” by the publisher of ''The Naked and the Dead'
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...tt Australia Airline), August, 24–29. Account of the joint appearance of {{NM}} and Martin Amis at a ''New Yorker'' literary festival in a Manhattan syna
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...d Sterritt. ''Christian Science Monitor'', 4 September, 19–20. His film, {{NM}} says, is “not a realistic picture. These are not typical American citiz
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...Mailer.” Interview by Mark Binelli. ''Rolling Stone'', 3–17 May, 69, 72. {{NM}} discusses the years after WWII in this fairly brief interview, as well as
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