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{{hatnote|This interview with Norman Mailer just before the publication of ''Ancient Evenings'' (his “big novel” ten years in the making and widely anticipated) was the cover story for the March-April, 1983, issue of ''Harvard Magazine''. I had published my first book entitled ''Acts of Regeneration'' in 1981 about Mailer’s work; based on that book, editor John Bethell (a kind and generous gentleman) gave me the assignment for his magazine. ~Robert Begiebing}} | {{hatnote|This interview with Norman Mailer just before the publication of ''Ancient Evenings'' (his “big novel” ten years in the making and widely anticipated) was the cover story for the March-April, 1983, issue of ''Harvard Magazine''. I had published my first book entitled ''Acts of Regeneration'' in 1981 about Mailer’s work; based on that book, editor John Bethell (a kind and generous gentleman) gave me the assignment for his magazine. ~Robert Begiebing<ref>From {{cite book |last=Begiebing |first=Robert |date=2015 |title=The Territory Around Us: Collected Literary and Political Journalism, 1982-2015 |url= |location= |publisher=The Troy Book Makers |page= |isbn= |author-link= }} Reprinted by Project Mailer with permission of Robert Begiebing. ([[83.10]])</ref>}} | ||
[[File:1983 Mailer and Begiebing.jpg|thumb|Robert Begiebing and Norman Mailer in the latter’s Brooklyn apartment, September 1982. Photo by Christopher Johnson.]] | [[File:1983 Mailer and Begiebing.jpg|thumb|Robert Begiebing and Norman Mailer in the latter’s Brooklyn apartment, September 1982. Photo by Christopher Johnson.]] | ||
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Ten years in the writing, ''Ancient Evenings'' will be published in May. For [[Norman Mailer]], who turned sixty in January, this new book marks an important transitional point. After more than a decade of nonfiction, a big novel — the first of a planned trilogy — brings Mailer back to the literary genre in which he made his name. | Ten years in the writing, ''Ancient Evenings'' will be published in May. For [[Norman Mailer]], who turned sixty in January, this new book marks an important transitional point. After more than a decade of nonfiction, a big novel — the first of a planned trilogy — brings Mailer back to the literary genre in which he made his name. | ||
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