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{{notice|This interview was originally published in ''[https://archive.org/details/provincetownarts1999unse Provincetown Arts]'', Volume 14, 1999: 24–32. Re-printed with the permission of ''Provincetown Arts'' magazine and Christopher Busa.}} | |||
{{notice|This interview was originally published in ''Provincetown Arts'', Volume 14, 1999: 24–32. Re-printed with the permission of ''Provincetown Arts'' magazine and Christopher Busa.}} | |||
Fourteen years ago, [[Norman Mailer]] appeared on the cover of ''Provincetown Arts''. If most cells in the human body change completely every seven years, then Mailer has changed twice since we last looked deeply into his face. Mailer appears now as the author of books unwritten in 1987 — ''Harlot’s Ghost'', ''Oswald’s Tale'', ''Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man'', ''The Gospel According to the Son'', and ''The Time of Our Time'', an anthology of the author’s writings that proves he is his own best editor. Awesome in their range, depth, and ambition, these books may be the finest of an extraordinary career. The author of ''The Naked and the Dead'' — Mailer’s first novel, begun in North Truro in 1946 — became a major writer at the age of 26. Now, on the high seas of his 70s, he looks back and calls the widely acclaimed book “the work of an amateur.” | Fourteen years ago, [[Norman Mailer]] appeared on the cover of ''Provincetown Arts''. If most cells in the human body change completely every seven years, then Mailer has changed twice since we last looked deeply into his face. Mailer appears now as the author of books unwritten in 1987 — ''Harlot’s Ghost'', ''Oswald’s Tale'', ''Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man'', ''The Gospel According to the Son'', and ''The Time of Our Time'', an anthology of the author’s writings that proves he is his own best editor. Awesome in their range, depth, and ambition, these books may be the finest of an extraordinary career. The author of ''The Naked and the Dead'' — Mailer’s first novel, begun in North Truro in 1946 — became a major writer at the age of 26. Now, on the high seas of his 70s, he looks back and calls the widely acclaimed book “the work of an amateur.” | ||
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Mailer and his wife, [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris]], a painter and novelist whose first book will soon be published, have lived year round in Provincetown in recent years. Mailer writes at a desk under the apex of his brick house on the waterfront in the East End. A picture window looks west along the shoreline to the wharf and Monument, and when the late afternoon sun is bright, he is obliged to cover the view with a curtain. On one side of his desk, a ping-pong table supports stacks of research materials. On the other is a simple mattress on the floor, where the author rests his eyes while working. One senses from the arrangement that the author is the ego who manages the sleep/work cycle between the researcher and the dreamer. | Mailer and his wife, [[Norris Church Mailer|Norris]], a painter and novelist whose first book will soon be published, have lived year round in Provincetown in recent years. Mailer writes at a desk under the apex of his brick house on the waterfront in the East End. A picture window looks west along the shoreline to the wharf and Monument, and when the late afternoon sun is bright, he is obliged to cover the view with a curtain. On one side of his desk, a ping-pong table supports stacks of research materials. On the other is a simple mattress on the floor, where the author rests his eyes while working. One senses from the arrangement that the author is the ego who manages the sleep/work cycle between the researcher and the dreamer. | ||