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81.6

“Prisoner of Success.” Interview by Paul Attanasio. Boston Phoenix, 24 February, 1–2, 11. Conducted in late December 1980, Attanasio’s interview elicits insights on other writers: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Leo Tolstoy, E.L. Doctorow; his pessimistic response to Ronald Reagan’s election; comment on the fact/fiction debate and on two of his own works, The Executioner’s Song (79.14) and Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15). Speaking of his depiction of Marilyn in 80.15, he says: “I invented an episode for her that was quite possibly more extreme than anything she ever did herself in her life. And that gave me pause. . . . but I wrote it with the idea that Marilyn, wherever she is, would accept this treatment of her.” Rpt: 82.16.
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81.7

“Norman Mailer at Columbia.” Interview at a 17 February Columbia University seminar moderated by Joseph McElroy; edited by Paul Hoagland and Kurt Duecker. Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose, no. 6 (spring-summer), 103–115. Major interview. Rpt: As “A Little on Novel-Writing” in 82.16.
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81.8

“An Evening with Norman Mailer.” Interview by William McDonald. Lone Star Review, Dallas Times Herald, April, 1, 3, 13. Mainly comments on the genesis of Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15), with two humorous stories as bookends: one about Mailer’s first days in the 112th Cavalry and another about going to a Brooklyn bar with Truman Capote. See 80.18.
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81.9

“A Sinister Occupation.” Book Digest Magazine, April, 20, 22–24, 27–29. Essay on the “spooky” psychology of writing; includes comment on reviews, royalties, ego, early success and fear of failure. He concludes: “I am still getting up my nerve at the age of fifty-seven to take a deep breath and tell the only personal story that any of us ever have, the true story of my own life and its curious turns, and all its private parts, yes, to look into the mirror and begin to write. Oh, what a fear is that.” This little-known essay, with many changes (including the excision of the sentence quoted), is the foundation of a longer essay, “The Hazards and Sources of Writing” (85.4).
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82.1

“Abbott Tells Trial of His Life in Foster Homes and Prisons.” Article by Paul L. Montgomery. New York Times, 15 January, Sec. B, p. 3. Account of the trial of Jack Henry Abbott for murder. Mailer, who helped him gain parole, is quoted: “As I said in the beginning, it’s a tragedy all around and I don’t see any reason to change that remark.” See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.10

“Mailer Feels ‘Responsibility’ for Slaying.” Article by Albin Krebs and Robert McG. Thomas Jr. New York Times, 22 February, Sec. B, p. 4. Advance report on Mailer’s appearance on the Dick Cavett Show, telecast in two parts on PBS, 24 and 25 February. Mailer said, “I have a very large responsibility for the death of Richard Adan.” He also said that he “never thought Abbott was close to killing, and that’s why I have to sit in judgment on myself.” See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.10a

“Mailer Sells U.S. the Brooklyn Bridge.” Article by Sharon Churcher. New York, 29 March 1982, 9. Snippet explaining how Mailer wrote to James Michener, who was on a committee that advised the postal service on commemorative stamps, recommending that the Brooklyn Bridge be given a stamp: “God, I think it’s a lovely piece of steel . . . it would make a honey of a stamp.”
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82.11

“Convict Author Given Term of 15 Years to Life.” Article by Reuters News Service correspondent. Boston Globe, 16 April, 4. Report on the sentencing of Jack Henry Abbott for the killing of Richard Adan; Mailer is quoted: “The real question is when does a man expiate his crime.” See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.12

“Mailer’s Protege Draws 15 Years to Life in Slaying.” Article by United Press International writer. Chicago Sun-Times, 16 April, 26. Another report on the sentencing of Jack Henry Abbott; Mailer is quoted briefly. See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.14

“Mailer Talking.” Interview by Michiko Kakutani. New York Times Book Review, 6 June, 3, 38–41. On the occasion of the publication of Pieces and Pontifications (82.16), Mailer discusses the trajectory of his own career, the transition from “embattled artist” to “alchemical artist,” and comments on the power of Ernest Hemingway’s style. Rpt: 88.6; Kakutani’s The Poet at the Piano: Portraits of Writers, Filmmakers, Playwrights and Other Artists at Work. New York: Times Books, 1988.
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82.15

Letters to Mike Lennon (30 January 1972, 7 October 1974). Excerpts reprinted in J. Michael Lennon’s essay, “Mailer’s Cosmology,” Modern Language Studies, 12 (summer), 18–29. Mailer’s comments deal with his cosmology, “obviously the most ticklish, dense, incomprehensible and for most readers perverted part of my thicket,” and “the difficulty in comprehending the authority of the senses,” respectively. Rpt: Critical Essays on Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon. Boston: G.K. Hall, December 1986, 14.3. See 59.2, 75.2, 75.11, 83.45, 89.11.
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82.16

Dedication: “For my sister, Barbara.” Discarded titles: “After ‘The White Negro’”; “Sinking in the Seventies.” Most of the interviews in Pieces were trimmed by Mailer. Rpt: A number of the essays and interviews are reprinted in The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 76.15.
== Reviews ==
* Mixed.
* Negative.
* Positive.
* Positive.
* Positive. Rpt: Lennon (1988).
* Negative.
* Mixed.
* Positive.
* Positive.
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82.17

Interview by Jean Stein. In Edie: An American Biography, by Jean Stein; edited with George Plimpton, 234, 315. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 28 June. Mailer’s comments deal with Edie Sedgwick’s acting in Andy Warhol’s film, “Kitchen,” and her tryout for a part in his play The Deer Park (67.13). See 97.24.
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82.19

Combines The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (67.11) and Existential Errands (72.7), with two excisions: the introduction to 67.11, which was reprinted in 72.7, appears only once in 82.19: at the beginning of the short fiction; original dedication to 72.7 was dropped.
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82.19a

“Mailer to Show His Movies.” Article-interview by George McKinnon. Boston Globe, 29 October, 24. In a discussion of the upcoming showing of his films in Boston, Mailer explains that they have not been shown in 10 years, and he’s “curious to see whether I was 10 years ahead of my time or 20 years behind.” See 82.20, 82.21.
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82.1a

“Tracy Wynn Fighting to Get TV-Series Credit.” Article-interview by Aljean Harmetz. New York Times, 15 January. The article explains that Mailer’s version of the screenplay for The Executioner’s Song (79.13), was chosen by producer Larry Schiller over an earlier one by noted screenplay writer Tracy Wynn because, Schiller said, “When I read Norman’s screenplay, it was a new experience. He didn’t condense scenes and drop characters; it was a new entity. Tracy gave me a better script about events, but Norman gave me a better script about characters.” Mailer said that Wynn was talented, but “I thought no one could do ‘The Executioner’s Song’ as well as I could. Part of the problem is that it’s a very long book with 200 characters, and a job of digestion had to be done. I wrote the book, so I’d already done that digesting.” Wynn disagreed and asked that the Writers Guild of America give him the film credit, arguing that Mailer had read his script and then written his. See 82.1b.
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82.1b

“Wynn Loses ‘Song’ TV Credit Case.” Article by Aljean Harmetz. New York Times, 18 January. An arbitration panel of the Writers Guild of America awarded Mailer sole credit for the four-hour TV series based on The Executioner’s Song. Wynn accepted the verdict; Mailer said “I confess to liking my script much more than Tracy’s; Schiller said, “At least 10 to 15 percent of Norman’s scenes were new scenes that weren’t in the book, and his new dialogue added underpinning to the characters.” See 82.1a.
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82.2

“Abbott Rejects Account of Him as Violent Man: Mailer Testifies on Ties to the Accused Slayer.” Article by Paul L. Montgomery. New York Times, 19 January, Sec. B, p. 3. Continuing account of Jack Henry Abbott’s murder trial, at which Mailer testified. At a press conference after his testimony, Mailer said when asked if he felt remorse, “I can’t give you my blood, but you can have my psychic blood. It’s something Abbott’s friends are going to have to live with for the rest of their lives.” See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.20

“Cinema’s Wild Man: Mailer Movies at Coolidge Corner.” Article-interview by Paul Restuccia. Boston Herald American, 5 November, Sec. B, p. 6. Mailer comments on his films after a showing of Maidstone (71.28) by the Institute of Contemporary Art at Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, Mass., and later at a bar. He says: “One reason I started making films was that I was upset about the movies made from my books….I knew ‘An American Dream’ wasn’t going to be very good because the novel65.7 took place in New York and they filmed it in L.A. Anybody who could do that doesn’t know lox from tuna salad.” See 82.19a, 82.21.
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82.22

“How Novels Get Titles.” Article by Robert F. Moss. New York Times Book Review, 7 November, 13, 18. Mailer explains that Stanley Rinehart, his publisher, thought that The Naked and the Dead (48.2) was “a dreadful title,” in an article for which a dozen contemporary writers, including Eudora Welty, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Tyler, Walker Percy, Robert Penn Warren and William Styron, were canvassed. Mailer also reveals that his working title for The Executioner’s Song (79.14) was “The Saint and the Psychopath.”
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82.22a

“Norman Mailer Tackles the Screen.” Article-interview by William Wolf. New York, 8 November, 86–87. Interviewed about the film version of The Executioner’s Song (79.13), Mailer says that the execution scene “just knocks me down every time I see it.” Asked if he considered departing from the book in his screenplay, he said, “I’m not sure it could be done in a good way, because what you had there was invaluable. There was a flavor of the real. How do you throw away the book? Do you write an imaginary story about a man like Gary Gilmore? Then you’re throwing away the reality.”
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82.23

Interview by Hilary Mills. In Mailer: A Biography, by Hilary Mills, passim. New York: Empire Books, mid-November. First book-length biography of Mailer. Valuable for its interviews with several of his wives, including his first, Beatrice Silverman, and a number of his friends and acquaintances including Jean Malaquais, Scott Meredith, George Plimpton, Dwight Macdonald, Mickey Knox, Vance and Tina Bourjaily, John W. Aldridge, Gore Vidal, Joe Flaherty, Walter Minton, James Baldwin, Seymour Krim, Jason Epstein, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Roger Donald, Gloria Jones, Pete Hamill, Milton Greene, Jimmy Breslin, Larry Alson, Daniel Wolf, William and Rose Styron, Adeline Lubell, Harold Hayes, Rust Hills, Midge Decter, Norman Podhoretz, Willie Morris, Abbie Hoffman, Dotson Rader, Buzz Farbar, and José Torres. Mills’s biography contains little new material from Mailer himself, but many important perspectives from family and friends. Mills is fair, but not always accurate or alive to nuance. Her method of documentation is sometimes difficult to follow, but her pioneering biography is foundational. See 81.2, 83.31, 83.50, 84.5.
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82.24

“From ‘A Work in Progress.’ ” Paris Review, no. 86 (winter), 10-14. First advance excerpt from Ancient Evenings (83.18), taken, according to a note, from the installment forthcoming in Playboy, although the selection does not appear in either Playboy excerpt (83.17 and 83.28). An “Author’s Note” explains the seven parts of the soul delineated by the ancient Egyptians, an explanation necessary to follow the description of the embalming process (from the point of view of the embalmee). Rpt: Appearing several months before the novel, this excerpt is taken from chapter 5 of book I, “The Book of One Man Dead.”
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82.25

Contribution to Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut: A Festschrift for Kurt Vonnegut on His Sixtieth Birthday, compiled by Jill Krementz, 99. New York: Delacorte. Five hundred numbered copies. In 147 words, Mailer talks of his pleasure in dining with Vonnegut, who “is almost a dead ringer in physical appearance for Mark Twain.”
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82.3

“Author Mailer Accepts ‘Blame’ in Fatal Stabbing.” Article by United Press International writer. Chicago Tribune, 19 January, Sec. 1, p. 5. Another in a series of accounts of Mailer’s press conference after his testimony at Jack Henry Abbott’s murder trial. Mailer called the murder of Richard Adan “an absolute tragedy, a hideous waste and horror.” See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.4

“Mailer Feels ‘Responsibility’ for Parolee’s Killing of Actor.” Article by Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times, reprinted in Chicago Sun-Times, 19 January. Another report on Mailer’s press conference called in the wake of his testimony at the trial of Jack Henry Abbott for murder. See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.5

“Mailer: I Would Risk Freeing Killer.” Article by Mike Pearl and Cynthia R. Fagen. New York Post, 19 January, 3. Sensationalized article that selectively quotes Mailer’s comments at a press conference and leaves out his statement taking partial responsibility for the death of Richard Adan at the hands of Jack Henry Abbott. See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.6

“Abbott Convicted of Manslaughter in Stabbing of East Village Waiter.” Article by Paul L. Montgomery. New York Times, 22 January, Sec. A, p. 1, Sec. B, p. 5. Mailer says, “It’s a fair verdict” in this report on Jack Henry Abbott’s conviction for first-degree manslaughter. See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries. See also Abbott’s response to his conviction, a book (with Naomi West) titled My Return (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1987), which consists of a play about the killing of Richard Adan, several appendices of self-justification and letters to Mailer, Lionel Abel, Robert B. Silvers, William Styron, Jerzy Kosinski and others.
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82.7

“Mailer Says He Shares Abbott’s Guilt.” Article by United Press International writer. Boston Herald-American, 23 January. Following the conviction of Jack Henry Abbott for manslaughter, Mailer said the victim’s family had “an absolute right to hate and revile me.” See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.8

“Reporter’s Notebook: Cinéma Vérité of Abbott Trial.” Article by Paul L. Montgomery. New York Times, 23 January, 27. Mailer is quoted briefly on the reaction of Jack Henry Abbott to his conviction for manslaughter. See 80.9 and Abbott affair entries.
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82.9

“Marilyn Monroe’s Sexiest Tapes and Discs.” Video Review, February, 70–74. Critiques of 11 of Monroe’s films, with brief comment on 11 more, drawn from Mailer’s research for Marilyn: A Biography (73.30). Rpt: 13.1.
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83.10

“Twelfth Round: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Robert Begiebing. Harvard Magazine, 85 (March-April), 40–50; cover photograph of Mailer. One of the three or four most important interviews Mailer has given; on the subject of his Harvard experience, it is the best, with especially interesting remarks on the Harvard Advocate (see 41.1, 75.14, 77.2). He comments on all aspects of his career, and at length on the forthcoming Ancient Evenings (83.18). He ends the interview with an anecdote about Ralph Ellison, with whom he attended a 1959 conference in Iowa. Rpt: 88.6. See 59.15–59.18.
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83.10a

“He Just Can’t Forget.” Caption for photos of and Marilyn Monroe. No author. Boston Herald, 6 March. Asked why he felt compelled to write Strawhead, a play about Monroe, after writing her biography (73.30), and a novel about her (Of Women and Their Elegance, 80.15), he said, “People have been asking me that for 10 years. I have a few answers, but don’t believe any of them.”
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83.11

“Norman Wasn’t Stormin’.” Article by John Engstrom. Boston Globe, 8 March, 57, 62. Report on the first staged reading of “Strawhead” (86.25) at Loeb Drama Center in Boston. This two-act play, written in collaboration with Richard Hannum, is based on Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15). It has never been commercially produced, but has been staged at Actors’ Studio in New York and in Provincetown, with Mailer’s daughter Kate portraying Marilyn Monroe. Mailer answered questions after the reading and said, “Women never dismiss the notion of being ‘elegant’ without a slight doubt in their hearts.”
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83.12

“Mailer at Penn.” Article by Carlin Romano. Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 March, Sec. C, pp. 1, 5. Detailed report with long quotes on Mailer’s week-long appointment as a Pappas Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania where he lectured and met with a variety of classes. The centerpiece of the week was a lecture titled “The White Negro Reconsidered,” which was followed by a pointed exchange with black students about Mailer’s “antique view of blacks,” as one student put it. Mailer “neither completely endorsed nor disavowed what he had once felt” about blacks, but as he explained, he had wished to compliment blacks by “celebrating their ability to live in the present.” Mailer’s friend and English Department Chairman, Robert F. Lucid, organized the visit. Of the Penn students who met Mailer, Lucid said, “These are the sons and daughters of the generation that knew Mailer. So they know that he’s important from an authoritative source, but they’re not sure why.” See 83.14–83.16, 83.21, 83.35.
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83.13

“Mailer Goes Egyptian.” Article-interview by Marie Brenner. New York, 28 March, 28–38. Long, sympathetic portrait of Mailer replete with revealing comments garnered during visits to his Brooklyn Heights apartment. His wife, Norris Church Mailer, is also quoted. Topics covered at length: Ancient Evenings (83.18); his parents (“my father was an elegant, impoverished figure out of Chekov”); his Jewishness; an extended description of how he met Norris; other writers, including Lillian Ross, William Styron, John Updike and Ernest Hemingway; the 1981–1982 Jack Abbott affair; and many remarks on the challenges of being a professional writer.
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83.14

“Mailer Leads with His Chin Again.” Article by unidentified writer. Boston Herald, 28 March. Brief, derivative, report on Mailer’s visit to University of Pennsylvania, with a few new quotes. See 83.12, 83.15, 83.16, 83.21, 83.35.
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83.15

“For My Small Share, Norman Mailer.” Article by Susan Schaefer Ingram. South St. Star (Philadelphia), 31 March, 1, 16, 17. Ingram’s title is what Mailer signed in her copy of a history of the Village Voice during his visit to University of Pennsylvania. Mailer’s comments on journalism in one of his public lectures at Penn, and at an ensuing press conference are quoted. Accompanied by 83.16. See 83.12, 83.14, 83.21, 83.35.
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83.16

“Mailer on Nuclear War.” Article by Maura Boland. South St. Star (Philadelphia), 31 March, 17. Accompanying 83.15, this piece quotes from another Mailer lecture at Penn, this one dealing with nuclear war. He proposes that “nations rent the Falkland Islands and have serious but small-scale wars there.” See 83.12, 83.14, 83.15, 83.21, 83.35.
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83.17

“Ancient Evenings.” Playboy, April, 78–82, 118, 124, 162, 164, 166, 168, 170, 172, 174. Excerpt from novel of same name (83.18); titled “A Soldier in the Harem” on the cover. Illustrated by Ivan Punchatz. Rpt: Appearing just before the novel, this excerpt is a very compressed version of chapters 1–7 of book 5, “The Book of Queens,” which deals with Menenhetet’s tenure as harem master to Ramses II. First of two installments.
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83.18

====Ancient Evenings. Boston: Little, Brown, 4 April; London: Macmillan, 26 May. Novel, 709 pp., $19.95.====
Dedication: “To my daughters, to my sons, and to Norris.” The copyright page carries this note: “I would like to express my appreciation to Ned Bradford, Roger Donald, Arthur Thornhill, Scott Meredith, and Judith McNally for their assistance and encouragement on this work.” Discarded title: Master of the Secret. The novel’s dates of composition, 1972–1982, are given on its last page.
Rpt: Advance excerpts appeared in Paris Review (82.24), House and Garden (83.9), Playboy (83.17), and, shortly after publication, in Vogue (83.30), again in Playboy (83.28), and in the (London) Sunday Times (83.42); excerpts from three chapters are reprinted in 98.7. See 72.19, 74.10, other 1983 entries.
==Note==
==Bibliography==
Reviews
* Mixed. Rpt: Bloom (1986).
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