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97.22

“The Martyrdom of Mailer.” Profile-interview by Andrew O’Hagan. Guardian Weekend (London), 30 August, 10–12, 14, 17–19; cover photograph of by Frank Ockenfels. Despite several errors in his profile, O’Hagan does provide some thoughtful Mailer quotations: on The Naked and the Dead (48.2), immigrant to America and the identity crises they faced, current literary criticism, Vietnam, Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), socialism and Christianity, The Gospel According to the Son (97.13), and Ernest Hemingway:
Accompanied by the first of three excerpts from 97.13; parts two and three appeared on 31 August and 1 September, respectively.
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97.23

“Mailer Retells the Greatest Story Ever.” Article-interview by Bob Minzesheimer. USA Today, 8 September. comments on 97.13, listing some of the theologians he read (Elaine Pagels, Robert Funk, John Meier), and announces that he is working on a retrospective, the best of his fiction and nonfiction (98.7).
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97.23a

“How Mailer Came to the Greatest Story Never Told.” Article by Alex Bellos. Guardian, 23 September, 3. Account of speaking to 200 people in a London cinema about The Gospel According to the Son (97.13). Originally, he said, he wanted to publish it anonymously and deny for three months that he didn’t write while claiming another writer has tried to plagiarize his style. But the publishers vetoed the idea. “I would have had fun, and the reviews would probably have been a little better.”
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97.23b

“And the Word Was with Norman.” Article by Michael Glover. Independent, 24 September. Account of the same event described in 97.23a. Asked why he didn’t dig deeper into the personality of Jesus, as he had with Marilyn Monroe, said, “I wanted to tell the story, I wanted to reach people. I wanted to point out the compatibility between Christ and Marx, to re-emphasize the notion of caring.”
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97.23c

“In the Name of the Son.” Article-interview by Alan Cadwick. The List (UK), 25 September-9 October, 20–21. In a London hotel, repeats what he has said in previous interviews, namely that the Gospels are “told intermittently well, and there are some extraordinary moments, but a lot of the time, it just doesn’t work.” He also criticizes his ex-wife Adele’s memoir, The Last Party (97.11), which was published at the same time as The Gospel According to the Son (97.13):
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97.23d

He smiled, so I punched him. Article-interview by Mick Brown. Daily Telegraph (London), 25 September, 26. , speaking in a London hotel room while promoting 97.13, gives his longest description of punching Martin Peretz on a Provincetown street after Peretz’s New Republic gave 97.13 “a particularly ugly and personal review.” He adds that his wife, Norris Church, “was appalled.” He describes himself as “a fellow of less than medium size and slightly more than medium weight, but with a huge dragon’s tail”—the legends surrounding his reputation. Speaking of the Catholic Church, which he called “a compassionate church,” he recalled that Pope John Paul II said that if necessary, the Vatican would have “to sell its treasures to help the poor.” “Well,” he said with a laugh, “I’m waiting.” This, one Mailer’s best spontaneous interviews of his later years, also includes comment on The Last Party (97.11), a memoir by his second wife, Adele Morales.
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97.23e

“Norman’s Kingship.” Article-interview by Clive Sinclair. Jewish Chronicle, 3 October. discusses his intentions for The Gospel According to the Son (97.13), stating that except for the sayings of Jesus he found the New Testament to be “almost disappointing. . . once you get past these sayings, there’s not much in the way of prose left. It’s the political needs that you feel.” By this he means the desire to “build a powerful church; you don’t build a powerful church on an ordinary man full of human weakness. Therefore they suppressed the man. I wanted to redress the balance, to rediscover this man’s overlooked humanity.”
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97.23f

“Mailer Brings Lit Fest to Humorous Close.” Article by Felicia Matthew. The Daily Campus (Southern Methodist University), 20 November. read from The Gospel According to the Son (97.13), and also spoke of why he used the first person: “I knew that if I wrote this book in first person. I would not come out alive. When you are writing, you have to follow your instinct, and my instinct said to do it in the first person.”
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97.24

Interview with George Plimpton. In Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career, by George Plimpton, passim. New York: Random House, December. (along with most of the New York literary world) is quoted several times in this oral biography of Capote, which uses the same method as Plimpton’s and Jean Stein’s Edie: An American Biography (82.17).
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97.24a

“Norman Mailer on Literary Instincts and Ambitions.” Interview by Sean Abbott, At Random, 27 April. Eleven-page omnibus interview on the occasion of the publication of The Time of Our Time (98.7). Among many other topics, notes how his standing with feminists have hurt him:
Major interview by a shrewd interviewer.
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97.26

“Norman Mailer.” Interview by Brian Lamb. In Booknotes: America’s Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas, by Brian Lamb, 162–165. New York: Random House. Included are interviews with 47 “reporters,” 26 “public figures,” and 46 “storytellers,” including . The latter include Shelby Foote, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Simon Schama, Daniel Boorstin, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Peggy Noonan and Charles Kuralt. The host of C-Span’s “Booknotes” interviewed Mailer on the air on 25 June 1995 on Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (95.16). Lamb leaves his questions out of his interviews with 119 writers collected in this volume. Mailer’s comments deal mainly with the six months (1992–1993) he spent in Minsk, researching Lee Harvey Oswald’s two years there. He also describes his writing routine.
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97.2a

Mailer on Picasso’ an Absorbing Program.” Article by Frazier Moore. AP wire story, 28 February. Report on a TV interview did with Melvyn Bragg on Picasso and television. He says that Picasso was “far and away the greatest artist of the 20th century.” Of TV, he says: “I have a kind of negative respect for television. I think it’s got an enormous power to encourage entropy in people: Their forms just dissolve into lesser forms, until we all end up in some vast porridge.”
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97.2b

“A Minority of One: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Christopher Hitchens. New Left Review, no. 22, March/April, 115–128. Wide-ranging and thoughtful probing of ’s political commitments and how they evolved in the face of assassinations, the end of the cold war, and the growing power of corporations. Mailer’s relations with his intellectual mentor, Jean Malaquais, and his views of Presidents Reagan and Clinton are also considered.
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97.3

“Mailer Goes to the Mountain.” Interview by Sean Abbott. At Random, no. 17 (spring-summer), 48–55. First and best interview on The Gospel According to the Son (97.13). Interviewed in New York just before Christmas 1996, discusses his Jewishness, the causes, source materials and language of the novel, his first-person point of view, miracles and his personal religious beliefs. He says, “I would say this book was written to fill an empty space in my mind. What’s almost never discussed, because it’s too tough a subject, is how it feels to be Jewish growing up in a benign Christian country.” See 83.44, 91.29.
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97.4

“You Are the Boss!” In Pierian Spring: The Literary Anthology of Berrien Springs High School, edited by David Chaudoir, 7. Berrien Springs, Mich.: Berrien Springs High School, April-May. Essay. and several other professional writers, including Sara Paretsky, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Sue Grafton and George Plimpton, contributed to this anthology of high school writing. Mailer’s 134-word contribution deals with the joys of reading.
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97.5

“Gospel According to Mailer: The Greatest Story Ever Retold.” Article-interview by Charles W. Bell. (New York) Daily News, 13 April, 7. explains his reasons for writing 97.13, especially his desire to improve the committee prose of the synoptic gospels. Accompanied by 97.6.
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97.6

[Chapters 1-7 of] The Gospel According to the Son. (New York) Daily News, 13 April, 8–9. Advance excerpt from 97.13. Rpt: Appearing about three weeks before the novel, these excerpts follow the published novel faithfully. Accompanied by 97.5. The remaining 42 chapters appeared in 18 parts in the Daily News 14 April to 1 May.
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97.7

“The Gospel of Mailer: Hubris, but without Limits.” Article-interview by Bruce Weber. New York Times, 24 April, Sec. A (“New York Report”), p. 21. , after discussing chutzpah as a “vulgar and endearing” quality that is “very much a part of New York,” goes on to “assure the New York world—the rest of America will never believe me—that I do not think of myself as Jesus Christ.” The piece also reveals:
# that Mailer had originally wished to publish 97.13 anonymously, but Random House demurred because of problems encountered by Joe Klein when he published Primary Colors anonymously; and
# that Random House would publish a literary retrospective of Mailer’s work of about 1,500 pages to commemorate his 75th birthday and the 50th anniversary of The Naked and the Dead (48.2) on 6 May 1998.
The Time of Our Time (98.7) did appear on this date. Accompanied by 97.8. Weber’s article appeared in truncated form in at least two other newspapers: Oakland Tribune (5 May) and Tampa Tribune (10 May).
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97.8

“First Person Singular: A Look Inside.” New York Times, 24 April, Sec. A (“New York Report”), p. 21. Advance excerpt from 97.13. Rpt: Appearing about a week before 97.13, this brief excerpt from chapter 29 deals with Christ’s dreams before going to Jerusalem to preach in the Great Temple. Accompanied by 97.7.
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97.9

“Jesus Feeds the Multitudes: Two Versions.” Chicago Sun-Times, 24 April, 35. Advance excerpt from 97.13. Rpt: Appearing a week before 97.13, this brief excerpt from chapter 27 deals with the miracle of the loaves and fishes; it is contrasted with the version in Mark, 6:37-45, New King James Version. Accompanied by Tom Sheridan’s mainly positive review and 97.10.
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98.10

The Talk of the Town: “Ink: Two Fighting Legends Reminisce and Ruminate over the Cheese Puffs.” Column by Lillian Ross. New Yorker, 18 May, 31. Ross reports on the publication party for The Time of Our Time (98.7) at the Rainbow Room/Pegasus Suite in Rockefeller Center, New York, including Mailer’s conversation with Muhammad Ali, who attended. Mailer was accompanied by his wife Norris, and eight of his nine children.
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98.11

“Fine Distinctions: Norman Mailer on Fiction, Non-Fiction and the Differences between Them.” Interview by Elizabeth Taylor. Chicago Tribune, 24 May, Sec. 14 (“Books”), p. 3. Besides discussing fiction and nonfiction, comments on John Dos Passos, James T. Farrell and the organizational scheme for 98.7.
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98.11a

“A Step in Time with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Hedy Weiss. Chicago Sun-Times, 24 May, 1, 14. In this longish piece, talks about his time in the army, and his sensibility as a young man: “Like most Americans, I was formed without a deep cultural tradition, but with an innocence and optimism that is lacking in Europeans.” Recalling the 1960s, he said that the social revolution of that decade was not truly revolutionary: “It was a middle-class revolution, inspired primarily by resistance to the Vietnam War.” It was “always a bit provisional” and grew out of “the genuine outrage of youth . . . But, God, the ’60s were exciting.”
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98.11b

“In Prose or in Person, Still the Tough Guy.” Interview with Susan Salter Reynolds. Los Angeles Times, 27 May, E1. discusses his mother’s “blind loyalty” to him: “There was a sense that you had to fight through her enveloping arms of love in order to do anything on your own.” Speaking of his father, he said: “I’m a huge believer in the continuation of dreams over generations, in the gene stream . . . My father used to write beautiful letters, almost Jamesian. He dreamed of being a writer but between avoiding the Feds on one hand and the mafia on the other . . . .” He also states that he is now ready, after seven years, to write the sequel to Harlot’s Ghost (91.26). “There’s no sense writing a second volume if it’s not as good; it’s like a broken promise. I think I know how to do it.”
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98.12

“In Prose, in Person, Mailer’s Still the Tough Guy.” Interview by Susan Salter Reynolds. New Hampshire Sunday News, 7 June, Sec. E, p. 4. Reynolds’s piece, in which recalls his mother and her family loyalty, appeared first in the Los Angeles Times (98.11b).
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98.12a

“Mailer’s Gut Reaction.” Squib in New 29 June-6 July, 19. is quoted about hitting New Republic publisher, Marty Peretz in the stomach after The Gospel According to the Son (97.13) was panned in his magazine: “He came up and smiled at me, so I punch him in the stomach.” Peretz said Mailer’s punches were “flabby.” Mailer retorted: “Actually I didn’t hit him that hard purposely, because he’s not a fighter.” See 65.15.
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98.12b

“The Great American Writer.” Article-interview by Hillel Italie. AP wire story, Chicago Tribune, 5 July, 3C. speaks of the pleasure and perils of the literary life and bemoans his lack of prescience: “All the things I wrote against I feel like I have lost. The corporation has taken over, and the computer has taken over.” He also comments on the recently published The Time of Our Time (98.7).
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98.13

“Mailer: At Age 75, Lauded Author Mourns That Marvelous Madness.” Article-interview by Hillel Italie, Associated Press. (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) Times-Leader, 5 July, Sec. G, p. 5. Brief comments by on the writing life in a 4 May Brooklyn interview in connection with the publication of 98.7.
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98.14

“Making Books: ‘Private Ryan’ Reviews a Genre.” Article-interview by Martin Arnold. New York Times, 30 July, Sec. E, p.3. Discussion of the “concentrated carnage” in Stephen Spielberg’s film, Saving Private Ryan and how it parallels The Naked and the Dead (48.2), which Arnold calls “arguably the greatest combat novel ever written by an American.” says, “The Second World War was a watershed. Everything is of it, before it or after it. It is a point of reference. It’s still my point of reference.”
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98.14a

“Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Barney Rossett: Their Struggles Against Censorship Recalled.” Interviews by Edward DeGrazia, fall, 11 pages. Comments by those named concerning the Boston trial of William Burroughs novel, Naked Lunch. See 63.8, 65.1, 65.13, 81.21, 92.12.
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98.14b

“A President Who Lives in Fear of His Wife.” Article-interview by Richard S. Ehrlich. Bangkok Post 25 September. Report of ’s press conference before his keynote speech at the SeaWrite Awards at the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, both on 24 September. Most of his comments dealt with the Monica Lewinsky scandal. He predicted that Clinton would not be impeached because he was immensely popular, and “a prodigious soap opera hero.” He described Lewinsky as “zaftig,” and noted that he thought Hillary’s interrogation of her husband would be “very fierce. Something about the set of her mouth.” Asked about Special Prosecutor Starr’s report, he said “it was a rather interesting document. I thought, ‘There’s a guy who’s afraid of his wife.’ It made him human to me.”
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98.14c

“Prize Writer.” Article-interview by Lynn Barber. Chicago Sun-Times, 4 October. This interview took place at ’s Brooklyn apartment, and focuses on The Time of Our Time (98.7). Mailer explained that he found some weaknesses in some of his writing when assembling the collection—
and goes on to say that only half of “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” stood the test of time.
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98.15

“Writer Norman Mailer Talks about Religion, Abortion, Clinton.” Article-interview by Joshua Karetny. Daily Pennsylvanian, 3 November, 11. Report on ’s keynote address at the Jewish Book Festival at the Gershwin YM-YWHA in Philadelphia.
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98.15a

“Mailer Outlines Problems of Spiritual Ecology.” Stanford Daily, 2 December. Internet. Speaking on 30 November at Stanford’s Memorial Auditorium, focused on advertising, television and the Internet, repeating his often-made criticism of the deadening interruptions of the media, which make it “more and more difficult to feel intensity towards one purpose.” The Internet, he said, “is an awful way to waste your time. You get bits of information that have been pre-digested, digested, and digested over again. I find it very difficult to get into a mood.”
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98.16

“Mailer Charms Central Students.” Article-interview by Anthony R. Cannela. Hartford Courant, 6 December, Sec. B, pp. 1, 3. Report, with brief quotes, of his 4 December visit to Barry Leeds’s Mailer course at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain.
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98.16a

“Mailer: Lion and Pussycat.” Article by Matt Nesvisky. Jerusalem Post, 14 December, 20. Report on a wide-ranging talk Mailer gave to an unidentified Jewish audience, including remarks on architecture. Unlike the great cathedrals of Europe, Mailer said that modern buildings are often “a fortress of exclusion that reinforces the insignificance of the individual.” Speaking of his writing life, he said, “For the first 25 years of my writing life, I was drenched on politics. But in the second 25 years of my writing life, I’ve been increasingly concerned with matters of religion and spirituality.” He added that he believed in karma “because I think the economy of the universe doesn’t allow for the experience that our souls have accumulated to just dissipate and go to waste.” Asked about his chances for the Nobel, he mentioned several others, including Roth, Updike, Oates and DeLillo. “There’s lots of worthy candidates. But as for me, well, my time for such things has passed.”
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98.18

“At the Point of My Pen.” In Why I Write: Thoughts on the Craft of Fiction. Edited by Will Blythe, 3–4. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. Mailer leads of this collection of essays by 26 writers, including Rick Bass, Robert Stone, Richard Ford, and Jayne Anne Phillips. He retells the story about what Jean Malaquais told him about continuing as a writer even though it was torture: “The only time I know the truth,” Malaquais said, “is when it reveals itself at the point of my pen.” Mailer finds this answer to be “incontestably true.” Rpt: 13.1.
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98.19

[Flower drawing] In Signature Flowers: A Revealing Collection of Celebrity Drawings, edited by Victoria Leacock. Foreword by Molly Ringwald. Introduction by George Plimpton. New York: Broadway Books. One hundred flowers drawn by celebrities and artists, accompanied by a brief biography.
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98.1a

“Norman Mailer: Advertisements for himself (& Himself) 50 Years after ‘The Naked and the Dead.’” Interview by Bill Broadway. New Millennium Writings, spring-summer, 10–25. Conducted in 1997, this interview first appeared in a condensed form in the Washington Post; see 97.15a. One of the longest and best of his interviews on his religious beliefs, including comments on his 1962–1963 columns for Commentary (see 62.22, 63.16–63.20); his Hebrew school experience; the story about God speaking to him in a Brooklyn coffee shop; his thoughts on Pope John XXIII; his mother’s fears of anti-Semitism, and his ideas on Jews and Jesus. Important interview.
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98.2

“Norman Mailer, Visiting Philadelphia, Shows He Can Still Work a Crowd.” Article-interview by Thomas J. Brady. Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 March. Speaking as part of the “Rebuilding the Future” series at the Central Library on Logan Square in Philadelphia, read from 98.1 and answered questions from Brady. Speaking of the Internet, he said that “there are going to be very few people who are going to read novels on a monitor. Or printed out….In a small way, a book does have immanence. It has a presence. It has a sense of the past about it.” The article also notes that Henry Holt and Co. intends to reissue The Naked and the Dead (48.2) in hardcover and softcover, with a new introduction by Mailer, to coincide with the novel’s 50th anniversary. See 98.6.
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