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In a career that stretched over seven decades, Mailer not only published 44 books (including 12 novels), he wrote several plays (and staged them); screenplays (and directed and acted in them); columns and reports for scores of periodicals of every stripe; poems (for both ''Nugget'' and ''The New Yorker'', among others); and essayed every sort of narrative form (including some he invented). He reported on six sets of political conventions (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1992, 1996); participated in scores of symposia, appeared and debated hundreds of times on college campuses from the 1950s to the 2000s; delighted and challenged, amused and appalled audiences in numerous venues; and enjoyed a vigorous public and private life in New York, Provincetown, Massachusetts and Mt. Desert, Maine. His passions, feuds, imbroglios, generosities, litigations, embarrassments and loyalties are numerous, notorious and complex. Happily married for over a quarter of a century to [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris Church]], he was wed five times previously and has nine children all told. A stalwart on radio and television talk shows for a half-century, he may have been interviewed more frequently than any other writer. Without being paid for his pains, he has given advice to several presidents, has run for office himself (mayor of New York), served as president of the American chapter of P.E.N., and has won most of the major literary awards except the Nobel. Cofounder of ''The Village Voice'', he also named it, and was a major player in the effort to break down barriers between popular, underground and elite periodicals. He has written for every kind of periodical: ''Dissent'', ''Ladies Home Journal'' and ''One: The Homosexual Magazine'', ''Parade'', ''Playboy'', ''Esquire'' and ''Vanity Fair'', from ''Way Out'' and ''Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts'' all the way over to ''Paris Review'', ''Commentary'', ''Harper's'', ''New Yorker'', and ''The New York Review of Books''. Not counting interviews, routine letters to the editor, questionnaires and symposia, Mailer has written for at least 100 different periodicals. | In a career that stretched over seven decades, Mailer not only published 44 books (including 12 novels), he wrote several plays (and staged them); screenplays (and directed and acted in them); columns and reports for scores of periodicals of every stripe; poems (for both ''Nugget'' and ''The New Yorker'', among others); and essayed every sort of narrative form (including some he invented). He reported on six sets of political conventions (1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1992, 1996); participated in scores of symposia, appeared and debated hundreds of times on college campuses from the 1950s to the 2000s; delighted and challenged, amused and appalled audiences in numerous venues; and enjoyed a vigorous public and private life in New York, Provincetown, Massachusetts and Mt. Desert, Maine. His passions, feuds, imbroglios, generosities, litigations, embarrassments and loyalties are numerous, notorious and complex. Happily married for over a quarter of a century to [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris Church]], he was wed five times previously and has nine children all told. A stalwart on radio and television talk shows for a half-century, he may have been interviewed more frequently than any other writer. Without being paid for his pains, he has given advice to several presidents, has run for office himself (mayor of New York), served as president of the American chapter of P.E.N., and has won most of the major literary awards except the Nobel. Cofounder of ''The Village Voice'', he also named it, and was a major player in the effort to break down barriers between popular, underground and elite periodicals. He has written for every kind of periodical: ''Dissent'', ''Ladies Home Journal'' and ''One: The Homosexual Magazine'', ''Parade'', ''Playboy'', ''Esquire'' and ''Vanity Fair'', from ''Way Out'' and ''Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts'' all the way over to ''Paris Review'', ''Commentary'', ''Harper's'', ''New Yorker'', and ''The New York Review of Books''. Not counting interviews, routine letters to the editor, questionnaires and symposia, Mailer has written for at least 100 different periodicals. | ||
The ambition of ''Norman Mailer: Works and Days'' is to chronicle Mailer's professional career, to nominate, delineate, annotate and cross-reference every significant Mailer utterance in print in English (an impossible task worth attempting), as well as the chief events of his life. Also included are a select secondary bibliography, and several appendices. The photographs and illustrations, one for most years from 1941 through 2014, are intended to add evocative interrelations to the record. The ''Chicago Manual of Style'' (14th ed.) has been our regular if not exclusive guide for "Works," "Days," and the bibliography. | The ambition of ''Norman Mailer: Works and Days'' is to chronicle Mailer's professional career, to nominate, delineate, annotate and cross-reference every significant Mailer utterance in print in English (an impossible task worth attempting), as well as the chief events of his life. Also included are a select secondary bibliography, and several appendices. The photographs and illustrations, one for most years from 1941 through 2014, are intended to add evocative interrelations to the record. The ''Chicago Manual of Style'' (14th ed.) has been our regular if not exclusive guide for "Works," "Days," and the bibliography.<ref>This digital edition uses the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style Wikipedia manual of style].</ref> | ||
''Works and Days'' is first of all a primary bibliography, one that attempts to be comprehensive. It fails. New Mailer poems, interviews, letters to the editor, and articles with original quotations from him turn up regularly. But the great bulk of significant published items by Mailer, or in which he is quoted, have been located and described. Every named item has been sighted and checked. It is certain, however, that there will be future discoveries. | ''Works and Days'' is first of all a primary bibliography, one that attempts to be comprehensive. It fails. New Mailer poems, interviews, letters to the editor, and articles with original quotations from him turn up regularly. But the great bulk of significant published items by Mailer, or in which he is quoted, have been located and described. Every named item has been sighted and checked. It is certain, however, that there will be future discoveries. | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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