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“Mailer Approves of a Woman President—If She’s ‘Impressive.’” AP wire story, 18 July. Besides his comment about the qualities of a woman presidential candidate, reveals that he is working on a new book: “It’s a secret what this book is about, and it’s big.” The book is The Castle in the Forest (07.10), which he began writing seven or eight months earlier, after at least two years of research.
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00.7

“Still Stormin’.” Article-interview by Alastair McKay. The Scotsman, S2 Weekend, 22 July, 2–5. speaks at length about the opportunities and pitfalls of celebrity: “It isn’t that agreeable having the fame, but it sure is disagreeable losing it.” He also speaks gloomily about the failure of some of his ideas: “The fact is that everything I’ve hated has triumphed and succeeded,” and mentions plastic, superhighways and modern architecture.
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“American Rhapsody.” Interview by Alex Thompson. Channel 4 News (U.K), 14 August. Internet. While attending the Edinburgh book festival, attacked the disparity of wealth in America, and the complicity of Pres. Clinton: “That was his crime, he never got down to the basic question which was the wealth in America was getting to be too divided. The wealthy were getting wealthy and the poor were getting poorer.” Asked about Clinton turning the presidency into a soap opera, he said, “I was the first to say the America President was the first soap opera star of America, and I said it many, many years ago,” referring to his 1960 essay, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” (60.9).
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00.8

“At 77, Mailer gives up on the Sexual Revolution.” Article by Fiachra Gibbons. Guardian, 15 August. Report on ’s appearance at the Edinburg Literary Festival. Mailer said, “Women have won everything. Men have sunk into their dugouts and pulled the metal covers over while women are rampaging over them.” He also spoke at some length about President Clinton, with whom he sympathized over the Monica Lewinsky affair: “Mon frere, I thought, I’d have done it myself.” But he also criticized Clinton for “the dreadful way he kissed up to the corporations and did away with poor people’s welfare, but not the corporations’ welfare.”
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00.9

“God’s Foot Soldier.” Article-interview by David Aaronovitch. Independent on Sunday, 20 August, 4–5. In this 14 August interview at the International book Festival in Edinburgh, Mailer rips corporate capitalism, which he says, “just depends on money; it doesn’t depend on competition anymore.” He also criticizes the left:
Asked during a discussion of religion if he sees himself as one of God’s Soldiers, he says,
Toward the end, he says,
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01.1

“Norman Mailer: A Literary Lion Roars.” Article-interview by Carolyn T. Hughes. Poets & Writers, March-April, 40–45. Excellent interview in which comments on his lack of involvement in the writing and editing of his wife Norris Church’s novel, Windchill Summer, published in 2000; the parallels between boxing and writing, other writers, including Bellow and Stendhal; and the role of the unconscious in his work: “We always know much more than we think we know—otherwise we couldn’t be writers. If I had to depend on my quotidian brain I wouldn’t show anyone the results.”
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01.2

“A Conversation with Norman Mailer.” By Michael Lee. Cape Cod Voice, 2–5 August, 12–13, 53–54. Long, penetrating interview in which discusses the shape of his career, John Cheever, his Provincetown friend, poet Eddie Bonetti, and much more. At the outset, he says,
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01.3

“Review: Zelda, Scott and Ernest.” By Dan Rattiner. Dan’s Papers, 31 August, 57. Following his review of George Plimpton’s and Terry Quinn’s dramatic dialogue based on the letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway (portrayed, respectively, by Plimpton, Norris Church Mailer and ), are some quotes from the Q and A following the 26 August performance at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY. Plimpton recalled how he tried and failed to set up a meeting between Mailer and Hemingway, and Mailer said, “I was really quite worried about what would happen if we were to meet. I called a friend [Mickey Knox] I knew, a rough tough guy, and asked him to come over and spend the day with me, and he did. I wanted to be ready.” See 01.4, 02.1, 13.2, 715–718.
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01.4

“Ruin More Beautiful than the Building.” Article-interview by Ann Treneman. (London) Times, 13 September. comments on the attack on the World Trade Centre. He described the buildings before the attack a “two huge buck teeth” and said the ruin was more striking. He watched the event unfold on television non-stop for several hours in his Provincetown home, something that “only happens a few times in your life. Jack Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Maybe ten times.” He excoriates terrorism, but then goes on to say that “what Americans refuse to recognize is that large parts of the world, particularly the most backward nations, see us as cultural oppressors and aesthetic oppressors” who build “high-rise hotels and buildings around their airports.” His conclusion: “We are going to be the most hated nation on earth.”
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01.5

“Norman and Norris Mailer Seem Letter-Perfect for Roles of Literary Legends Who Lived Large.” Article-interview by Debbie Foreman. Cape Cod Times, 15 September, B1–B2. Both Mailers discuss the dramatic dialogue, “Zelda, Scott and Ernest,” they will present with George Plimpton later in September in Provincetown. Of Hemingway, says:
See 01.2, 02.1.
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01.6

“‘The Wisdom of a Serious Redneck’: Norman Mailer Remembers James Jones,” edited by J. Michael Lennon. James Jones Literary Society Newsletter 10, no. 4, fall, 2–4. An edited transcription of ’s remarks at a 1999 Jones Society symposium at Long Island University. In this long, fascinating talk, Mailer recounts the circumstances of his intense friendship with Jones, including his first meeting with him (see 99.4), and his feelings after reading the galleys of From Here to Eternity in 1951: “So I sat down and read this book and I want to tell you, I truly suffered. I suffered because it was too damn good. I was very happy whenever I came across somewhere I could say, ‘Oh, I could do that better.’ On the other hand, there were any number of things where I thought, ‘Oh, he knows more about that than I do.’” Mailer gave the novel a warm blurb.
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01.7

“Epstein Looks Back—and Ahead—at Publishing.” Article-interview by Hillel Italie. AP wire story, 25 November. Epstein talks at length about the future of digital publishing, and also describes when he first knew him: “Brilliant, difficult, dangerous . . . You never know if he was going to hit you or kiss you. But he had a wonderful mind. What you look for in these people is originality, a voice nobody had before.” The writer asked Mailer about Epstein: “He’s so damned intelligent. I wasn’t used to working with someone who might be a lot brighter than I am.”
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01.8

Foreword to Enduring Justice: Photographs, by Thomas Roma. N.p. New York: Powerhouse Books. One-page foreword on the power of Roma's black-and-white photographs taken at the Brooklyn Criminal Court Building from 1997 to 1999. Rpt: Talk magazine, August, 2001, 110.
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01.9

“Norman Mailer: Stupidity Brings Out Violence in Me.” Interview by Lawrence Groebel. In Endangered Species: Writers Talk about Their Craft, Their Visions, Their Lives, edited by Lawrence Groebel, 289–316. Cambridge, MA: DaCapo Press. Focus is on violence, the craft of writing, and ’s views of several other writers, Vidal and Capote, most notably. Rpt: (partial) The Spooky Art (03.7).
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02.1

“The Very Literate Are Different: Zelda, Scott and Ernest on Stage.” Article by Tara Bahrampour. New York Times, 13 January. In this squib, and Plimpton are quoted briefly after their performance with Norris Church Mailer in “Zelda, Scott and Ernest” at the Kaufmann Concert Hall of the 92nd Street Y. See 01.2, 01.4.
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02.10

“I Am Not for World Empire: A Conversation with Norman Mailer about Iraq, Israel, the Perils of Technology and Why He Is a Left-Conservative.” By Kara Hopkins, Scott McConnell, and Taki Theodoracopulos. American Conservative, 2 December, 8–18. Long, impassioned discussion in Provincetown of the impending war with Iraq, with digressions on technology, the nature of American conservatism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Rpt: Why Are We at War? (03.18). See 03.20.
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02.11

“A Founding Father Expresses Outrage.” Letter to the Editor. Cape Cod Voice, 5–18 December, 47. In a brief letter, , who named and co-founded The Village Voice in 1955, expressed his support for this Cape Cod paper, which was sued by the Voice for name infringement. The Village Voice lost.
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02.13

Foreword to Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult, by Peter Levenda, 1–4. 2nd ed. New York Continuum. notes that he has read Levenda’s book three times and gives an enthusiastic endorsement to his detailed exploration of the occultists who interacted with the Nazis.
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02.14

“Norman Mailer.” In John Steinbeck: Centennial Reflections by American Writers, edited by Susan Shillinglaw, 62. San Jose, CA: San Jose State University. In a 219-word contribution, expresses his admiration for Steinbeck, especially for his “marvelous and ironic sense of compassion, never sentimental but daring all the time.” 
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02.2

“Machismo Isn’t that Easy to Wear.” Article-interview by Oliver Burkeman. Guardian, 5 February. , who was about to turn 79 when interviewed in Provincetown, said “Machismo is that faint zephyr I can still barely hear on the other side of the hill.” Mailer discusses his books, the stabbing of his wife Adele—“you really might say the worst elements of it have been digested over the years—by me, I mean. I can’t speak for Adele. It’s our children who suffered with it more than we did.” Brookeman makes a number of errors in the piece, all of which could have been eliminated by some fact-checking. For example, he says that Mailer stabbed his wife with a pair of scissors. He can’t be criticized, however, for another error, which he picked up from Mary Dearborn’s biography (92.2). She states that Mailer beat up a sailor for questioning the heterosexuality of his dog. In fact, Mailer had both of his eyes gouged after being attacked by two men when walking his poodle in the fall of 1956, and had to spend a week in a darkened room. See 13.2, 211–212.
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02.3

“Alarm Calls for American Dreamers.” Article-interview by Christopher Bigsby. Independent (London), 9 February, 10. Revealing interview in which Mailer ranges over his career (he says his three best novels are The Naked and the Dead (48.2), The Executioner’s Song (79.14), and Harlot’s Ghost (91.26)), criticizes American hubris (“if you really love a country, it’s your duty to be critical of it”), talks about his Arthritic knees (“the pain is paying off bad karma on the installment plan”), and tells about living in the same house in Brooklyn as Arthur Miller in the late 1940s (“I know he was thinking what I was, which was, ‘That other guy is never going to amount to anything’”). He also criticizes President Bush, and says that in the wake of 9/11, “When I say it now I know I’m going to have to pay for it, but if you don’t use freedom of speech, it’s like an unused dick. It tends to dwindle.”
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02.4

“It Seems a Bit Impolite for the U.S. to Wave the Flag in the Whole World’s Face.” Opinion piece by E.R. Shipp. New York Daily News, 18 February. Shipp quotes ’s comments about excessive patriotism from an unnamed British newspaper: “Has there ever been a big, powerful country that is as patriotic as America? And patriotic in the tinniest way, with so much flag-waving?” He continues saying that real patriotism carries “the obligation to improve all the time, not to stop and take bows and smell its armpits and say, ‘Ambrosia!
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02.5

“For Whom the Will Toils.” Letter to the editor. Boston Globe, 14 March, A14. excoriates George W. Will for equating the prose of President George W. Bush with that of Ernest Hemingway, stating that to put Bush “next to Hemingway is equal to saying that Jackie Susann is right up there with Jane Austen.” Rpt: 14.3.
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02.7

Into the Mirror: The Life of Master Spy Robert P. Hanssen, by Lawrence Schiller. New York: HarperCollins, early May. 317 pp. Based on an investigation by Norman Mailer and Lawrence Schiller. Schiller transformed Mailer’s screenplay for a four-hour television miniseries, titled Master Spy: The Robert Hanssen Story, into this book, which appeared before the miniseries aired on 10 and 17 November 2001. Mailer and Schiller performed a lengthy investigation for the project, including a trip to Russia to speak with Hanssen’s KGB handlers.
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02.8

“Manso’s Many Untruths.” Letter to the Editor. Provincetown Banner, 16 May, 8. comments on Sue Harrison’s review of Peter Manso’s portrait of Provincetown in his book, Ptown: Art, Sex and Money on the Outer Cape (New York: Scribner’s, 2003): “I will now state that every remark or action he has attributed to me that I have read about . . . is wholly and totally untrue.” Mailer goes on to say that his “private term” for Manso, who compiled an oral biography of Mailer, Mailer: His Life and Times (85.13), “might be ‘poison-drip.’” See 00.1. Rpt: Playboy, January 2009.
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02.9

“9/11: Speaking Out: Norman Mailer Talks to Dotson Rader.” Sunday Times Magazine (London), 19 September. A long, edited conversation between {NM}} and his close friend Dotson Rader about the devastating impact of 9/11 on America, the failure of its leaders, and the greed that Mailer feels may be the cause of the American malaise. The piece begins with a highlighted Mailer quote from the conversation: 
Rpt: Why Are We at War? (03.18). See 03.20.
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03.1

“Norman Mailer: Writer.” Interview by Christopher Bollen. V Magazine, no. 21, January-February, 7. Mailer answers questions about the origins of The Spooky Art (03.7), the advantages and perils of being constantly in the media, how he chooses his subjects, and influences on him:
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03.10

“Mailer Was the Rage.” Article-interview by Ron Rosenbaum. New York Observer, 6 February, 1, 8. Rosenbaum explores ’s demanding theological beliefs which place humans squarely in the middle of the battle between God and the Devil. For a postscript, Rosenbaum calls Mailer for comment. Mailer obliges him by pointing out that the cosmic struggle is not binary:
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03.11

“Mailer Erupts: Bush Needs a War.” Daily Telegraph, 21 February, 22–23. This long essay, a speech given at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on 20 February, is a polemic against the Iraq War with extended discussion of the idea contrived by the Bush administration about weapons of mass destruction, Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, and Christianity. Rpt: as “Only in America” in New York Review of Books, 27 March; (partial) Why Are We at War? (03.18); Sunday Independent (Ireland), 2 March, 18–19; and The Commonwealth, the magazine of the Commonwealth Club. See 03.20.
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03.13

“Fighting Words: Scrappy as Ever at 80, Norman Mailer Takes on Bush and War with Iraq.” Article-interview by Heidi Benson. San Francisco Chronicle, 25 February, D1, D8. Account of a Q and A after a speech before the Commonwealth Club at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. Mailer’s theme is that Bush needs a war “as a steppingstone away from our problems.” He also discussed literary matters: “Publishing is absolutely addicted to best-sellers, more than ever before. And best-selling books are the enemy of good literature.” See 03.20.
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03.14

“Mailer, 80, Hasn’t Lost His Bite.” Article by Scott Timberg. Los Angeles Times, 26 February. answered questions from poet Carol Muske-Dukes at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on 24 February. Mailer described his affinity to Picasso: “Every time he had a new wife or a new mistress, his style would change.” Asked about Virginia Woolf’s style, he said it sets his “teeth on edge. She’s much too satisfied with the smell of her own armpit.”
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03.15

“Norman Mailer in L.A.: Battling the Armies of the Right.” Article by Marc Cooper. L.A. Weekly, 27 February-6 March. Quotes ’s comments on the Iraq War at a 22 February luncheon at the home of Stanley Sheinbaum in Los Angeles: “We’re in a pre-fascist atmosphere here in America.” Continuing, he said that the White House zealots shouldn’t be taken too seriously: “Jesus is half their soul. Evel Knievel is the other half. An average American with a deep Christian faith is an oxymoron.”
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03.16

Yes, I Misbehaved Sometimes. Article-interview by Zoe Heller, Daily Telegraph, 3 March, 19. Omnibus piece that focuses mainly on ’s feeling toward women. Asked about his negative comments about women writers in Advertisements for Myself (59.13), Mailer replies:
He also speaks of his ambition: “My theory of writing books has always been that it’s better to try for something big and fail than not to try at all.”
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03.16a

“US Writer Norman Mailer wins Top France Prize.” Article-interview by unidentified writer. 4 March. DNA India. After receiving France’s highest award, the Legion of Honor, in New York from the French Ambassador, Mailer said “I’ve had an exciting relation to France all my life, from my young years in Brooklyn when I thought Paris was the place to be.” He said he loved French, “this language that I adore and was never able to master.”
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03.17

====Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings. New York: Random House, 23 October. 275 pp. $14.95.====
Dedication: “To Norris.” Soft cover. A reprint of the majority of ’s poems (some revised) from two earlier works: his 1962 collection, Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3), and his 1966 miscellany, Cannibals and Christians (66.11), along with a suite of eight new poems collectively titled “Hemingway Revisited.” The Hemingway poems also appeared in Paris Review (see 03.28). Interspersed with the poems are about 100 of Mailer’s captioned and humorous line drawings, some of which are obliquely related to the poems. He also includes is introduction to the 1971 soft cover edition of Deaths for the Ladies published by New American Library (71.31).
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03.18

Dedication: “To Norris.”
Soft cover. A polemic against the Iraq War assembled from two interviews (02.9, 02.10), and a speech from the period September 2002 to February 2003 (03.20).
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03.19

“To Mailer, a Good Soldier Puts War on Paper.” Article-interview by Bob Minzesheimer. USA Today, 10 April 2003. The writer asks a number of war novelists, including and Tim O’Brien, to comment on how the soldiers in the upcoming war in Iraq will write about it. Mailer says because of the complexity of American motives for going to war, “a soldier in the middle of all that . . . might come home with marvelous stories.” He recalls that when he spoke to an editor in 1946 about writing a war novel, he was discouraged. The editor told him readers had lost interest in war. But when The Naked and the Dead (48.2) came out in the spring of 1948, “readers were ready. It was the luckiest timing of my career.”
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03.2

“Old Brawler Won’t Grapple with History: Norman Mailer Ruminates on Literature and Life.” Article-interview by Julie Salamon. New York Times, 22 January, E1, E10. On the eve of his 80th birthday and the publication of The Spooky Art (03.7), talks in Provincetown about the coming war in Iraq and the diminishing power of the novel to affect the life of the nation. “The novel now rides in a sidecar.” Accompanied by a harshly negative review of The Spooky Art by Michiko Kakutani, one of a string of negative reviews by Mailer’s bête noir among reviewers. See 95.36, 05.10, 07.2.
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03.20

“Only in America.” Commonwealth, 15 April, 13–20. Polemical speech against the Iraq War given on 20 February at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, accompanied by a Q and A with Barbara Lane on pages 20–22. Rpt. Along with 02.9 and 02.10 in Why Are We at War? (03.18).
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03.21

“We Went to War Just to Boost the Male Ego.” The Times (London), 29 April, 20 (subscription required). Essay of approximately 1500 words in which argues that Pres. Bush went to war because “we very much needed a war” to offset the sinking economy, the loss of face resulting from scandals in the Catholic Church, the greed of U.S. corporations, and behind all these was the need to bolster the sagging machismo of white American males. An expanded version of this essay appeared in the New York Review of Books, 7 July 2003, under the title, “The White Man Unburdened.” Rpt: 13.1.
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03.22

“Our Religion Is Called America.” Interview with Der Spiegel. Published Sometime in May or June. Six-page transcript. speaks at length about the “Christian warrior,” George W. Bush, and his motives for the Iraq War. He notes at the end that the novel he is working on is not a continuation of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26).
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