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94.5

“Mailer’s Side.” Letter to the editor. Arkansas Times, 7 July, 6. corrects comments by Crescent Dragonwagon, daughter of Maurice Zolotow, concerning “a host of accusations against my book, Marilyn73.30, speaking of libel, invasion of privacy and plagiarism.” These accusations were later withdrawn by Zolotow after the publishers of Marilyn paid him $22,500 for permission to quote from his biography of Marilyn Monroe, instead of the “pittance” (according to Mailer) he had been previously paid. Mailer puts Dragonwagon on notice about “disseminating a canard against my literary reputation.”
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94.6

“Mailer: Wills is Full of Bile.” Letter to the editor. New York Post, 25 July, 20. responds to a 21 July column by Garry Wills in which he speaks of Mailer as “supporting a gaggle of children from his huddle of various wives.” Mailer says, “For shame, Garry Wills. You sound like George Will.”
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94.7

“Like a Lady.” Esquire, August, 40–56; cover story. Interview with Madonna. Wide-ranging interview on sex, AIDS, the media, and artistic growth. Rpt: Several long excerpts from this interview appeared in a 12 July Liz Smith column, subtitled “Mailer-Madonna Gush Fest,” in Newsday, A4, A11; 98.7 (partial).
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94.8

“New York Intelligencer: Norman Mailer’s Non-Self Portrait.” Column by Pat Wechsler and Roger D. Friedman. New York, 19 September, 13. is quoted briefly in this piece, which explains why Random House will not be publishing his next book, a biography, Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man (95.38). See 93.4.
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95.1

“Literati Probing Oswald’s Days in Minsk.” Article-interview by James P. Gallagher. Chicago Tribune, 17 January, 1, 10. Several people who knew Lee Harvey Oswald when he lived in Minsk (then part of the U.S.S.R., now capital of Belarus) gave Gallagher comments about him. is quoted briefly only to say that he cannot discuss his book-in-progress, Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (95.16).
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95.10

“An Exclusive Talk with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by André Bernard and Joseph Cummins. Book-of-the-Month Club News, May, 3. says that he’ll never forgive Oswald “because we’ll never get over the tragedy that a man who could have been a great president, or could not have been, didn’t live long enough to fulfill our notion of history.” See 95.11.
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95.11

“Interview with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Joseph Cummins. BOMC Insights, May, 1. A second piece drawn from the same January visit to ’s home in Brooklyn Heights. Mailer describes Marina Oswald, whom he interviewed for five days in Texas: “She’s only in her early 50s, but she’s bent over as if she were holding a stone on her back….She has this obsessive question: ‘How much of this is my fault? See 95.10.
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95.12

“Toward a Concept of Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Samuel M. Hughes. Pennsylvania Gazette (Alumni Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania), May, 20–27. Detailed report of ’s 20-23 March visit to the University of Pennsylvania, with comments from Hughes’s interview with Mailer interspersed. In the course of four days of lectures, class visits and readings from his work, Mailer spoke of race relations in America, advertising, literary style, the worsening “spiritual ecology” of modern times, capitalism and communism, his sole foray into commercial advertising, corporations, and his forthcoming book, 95.16. Hughes is both skeptical and admiring in this fine portrait—one of the best—of Mailer the dialectician, looking for action in academe. See spring 1983 entries, 95.2–95.7.
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95.13

“Norman Mailer Tells ‘Oswald’s Tale.’” Article-interview by Patricia Holt. San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May, Sec. E (“Datebook”), pp. 1–2. Interviewed at Random House in New York, talks about 95.16, with emphasis on the sexuality of Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald.
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95.14

“Mailer Obsessed.” Article-interview by Wil Haygood. Boston Globe, 2 May, 59, 68. says that he is “75 percent sure” that Oswald killed J.F.K. Haygood attempts, unconvincingly, to link Mailer and Oswald: “Both were dreamers. Both were U.S. Marines who felt unappreciated in the Marines.” Mailer was in the U.S. Army.
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95.15

“The Amateur Hit Man.” New York Review of Books, 11 May, 52–59. Advance excerpt from Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (95.16). Rpt: Appearing just before the official publication date of 95.16, this excerpt, dealing with Oswald’s murderer, Jack Ruby, consists of the whole of part 7, “The Amateur Hit Man,” of volume 2, “Oswald in America,” with only a few minor changes. See 67.2.
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95.16

====Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. New York: Random House, 12 May; London: Little, Brown, 7 September. Nonfiction narrative, 828 pp., $30.====
A signed, leather-bound “limited first edition” appeared simultaneously carrying a two-page preface, “A Special Message for the First Edition from Norman Mailer.” Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, $75.
Dedication: “To Norris, my wife, for this book and for the other seven that have been written through these warm years, these warm twenty years we have been together.” 
Appreciation:
Rpt: A lengthy advance excerpt appeared in New Yorker (95.8), a shorter one in New York Review of Books (95.15), and, shortly after publication, another brief one in Parade (95.17); eight excerpts are reprinted in The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 83.58, 93.8, 1995 entries, 96.2, 97.26.
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95.16a

“Norman Mailer Bridges the Divides of Age.” Article by Howard Goodman. Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), 14 May, 3E. Report on ’s appearance in Bruce Kuklick’s history class at University of Pennsylvania, where he told the students that writing “history is exactly like novel writing”; and “Everything has been misreported from the beginning of time, including the Old Testament and the New Testament, which are perfect examples of egregious misreporting of whatever-it-is.” The students were “startled.”
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95.17

“What American Haunts Us More?” Parade, 14 May, 4–7; cover story. Excerpt from 95.16. Rpt: Appearing just after the book, this excerpt deals with Oswald’s culpability in J.F.K.’s assassination, taken from chapters 3 and 4 of part 8, “Oswald’s Ghost,” of volume 2, “Oswald in America.”
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95.17a

“Guess Who Came to the 1967 Vietnam War Protest Dinner?” Memoir by Suzanne Fields. Insight, 15 May, 40. An account by the Washington hostess who put on “the liberal party” attended by , Lowell, Macdonald, Paul Goodman and several others before the events chronicled in The Armies of the Night (68.8), who describes herself as “the mess sergeant for the armies of the night.” She retells the story of the dinner she put on, and adds that Mailer did send her back a copy of the book he borrowed, his novel Why Are We In Vietnam? (67.15), with this inscription: “I guess you can’t dine out on tales of my misconduct forever.”
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95.18

“Mailer on Oswald: ‘An American Mystery.’” Article by Joan Smith. San Francisco Examiner, 22 May, Sec. B (“Style”), pp. 1, 3. In this report on his appearance in a City Arts and Lectures program with Wendy Lesser, editor of Threepenny Review, discusses his collaboration with Lawrence Schiller on 95.16, his former status as a conspiracy theorist, and his ideas about Oswald’s character. Mailer says Oswald was “a psychopathic liar,” but he respects him for his guts, concluding by saying, “John Updike once said of the Kennedy assassination that it was as if God had removed his sanction from America….It’s as if all the troubles have come to us since then, as if we were no longer a blessed nation.”
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95.19

“Norman M. Praises Norman R.” New York Newsday, 24 May, Sec. B, p. 7. Excerpt from letter read at a 17 May memorial ceremony for Brooklyn poet laureate, Norman Rosten, whom called “the quintessence” of the “good guy” from Brooklyn.
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95.2

“Looking for Inspiration for His New Book, Mailer Visits Campus.” Article by Tammy Polonsky. Daily Pennsylvanian, 21 March, 1, 5. Visiting the University of Pennsylvania for four days of lectures and class visits, began with a dialogue with students focusing on communism, capitalism, and U.S. race relations. Robert F. Lucid, English professor and Mailer’s authorized biographer, joined him in conducting the 20 March dialogue in Meyerson Hall. Urging President Clinton to make race relations the keynote of his re-election campaign, Mailer said that until black-white tensions are resolved, “nothing else will get better.” See spring 1983 entries, 95.3–95.7, 95.12.
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95.20

Commencement Address, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 27 May. In a speech of approximately 1,000 words, focused on the Cold War and the way it affected the lives of nearly all Americans over the past 40 years. “Looking back on it,” he said, 
Mailer ended his speech by challenging the graduates “to anticipate the glorious, and exciting, and fearful, and incredible days and years that await you.” Rpt: His speech appeared, in part, over the next few days in an Associated Press story in at least 70 newspapers. Longer reports of his speech appeared in the (Scranton, Pa.) Sunday Times, 28 May, Sec. B, pp. 11, 13; the (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) Citizens’ Voice, 28 May, 5, 18; the (Hazelton, Pa.) Standard-Speaker, 30 May; and the Wilkes University Alumni Journal, July-August, 3. See 95.21.
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95.21

“Activism Dormant, Not Dead, Says Author.” Article-interview by Anthony Colarossi. (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.) Times Leader, 28 May, Sec. A, p. 3. Interviewed after receiving an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at Wilkes University, said that if President Bill Clinton based his 1996 election campaign on bringing whites and blacks together, it might generate an activist movement. The administration, he added, “is just not passionate enough. And Clinton is not ready to die [politically] for a political idea.” See 95.20.
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95.22

“Mailer Back in the Arena, Pushing ‘Oswald.’” Article-interview by Carol McCabe. Providence Journal, 28 May, Sec. E (“Sunday Brunch”), pp. 1, 9. Report of a meeting with three reporters, including McCabe, in a Cambridge, Mass., hotel room as was concluding his 12-city tour on behalf of 95.16. Besides speaking of Oswald’s character (“he is a tragic figure, not a tragic hero”), Mailer comes up with a new metaphor for the fact/fiction opposition: “Most people think the line between fiction and nonfiction is a Berlin Wall. I think, on the contrary, that it’s a barely marked boundary. I like working back and forth on that boundary….being a range rider on that line.” Accompanied by Margaria Fichtner’s mixed review. See 95.24, 95.32.
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95.23

“Mailer Takes Look into Mind of Assassin.” Article by Copley News Service writer. Washington Times, 2 June. In this brief piece, says he sees “a huge difference” between Lee Harvey Oswald and Timothy McVeigh, suspect in the Oklahoma City bombing: “Oswald saw himself as a creator…. McVeigh, or whoever did the bombing, is a symbol of a destroyer.”
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95.24

“Norman Mailer Takes Aim at the Oswald Riddle.” Article-interview by Nicholas A. Basbanes. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 June, 1–2. Another discussion of the fictive nature of ’s nonfiction narratives, including 95.16 and The Executioner’s Song (79.14), and drawn from the same interview session as 95.22 and 95.32.
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95.25

“Discovering Lee Harvey Oswald: Norman Mailer’s Biography Reveals an Extraordinary Risk-Taker.” Article-interview by Alan Dumas. Rocky Mountain News, 5 June, Sec. D (“Arts and Entertainment”), pp. 6, 8. Based on a telephone interview, this piece reveals little new about 95.16. Dumas does report that was thinking of writing a novel about a concentration camp after finishing the sequel to Harlot’s Ghost (91.26). See 95.26.
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95.26

“For a Draft of Reality, It’s Mailer Time.” Article-interview by Louise Continelli. Buffalo News, 11 June, Sec. E (“Lifestyles”), pp. 1–2. Based on the same telephone interview as 95.25, this piece gives more space to ’s comments comparing Oswald to Timothy McVeigh. He says,
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95.26a

“Norman Mailer: Taking Stock and
Taking Aim.” Article-interview by
Divina Infusino. American Way 28
(15 June), 54–57, 82–83, 87. Most of
this interview deals with the recently
published Oswald’s Tale (95.16), But
 also discusses television,
family, marijuana use, and his films.
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95.27

“America’s Obsessions: Norman Mailer Talks about Lee Harvey Oswald, J.F.K., the KGB, O.J. Simpson, and the Nasty Nineties.” Interview by Sean Abbott. At Random, no. 11 (summer), 12–19. Longest and best interview on 95.16, covering all major aspects of the book, including ’s lucid explanation of his six months with Lawrence Schiller in Minsk in 1992–1993, and a good exchange on J.F.K.’s diminished stature in American life. Mailer ends by saying of the sequel to Harlot’s Ghost (91.26): “I’m working on it.”
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95.28

“Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Wendy Smith. US Air Magazine, July, 12, 14, 16. Interviewed at Random House in New York, explains how he came to see Lee Harvey Oswald: “He was not just a passive, Dreiserian character that life just worked upon; he did a great deal to create his own destiny.”
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95.29

“Norman Mailer Replies.” Letter to the editor. New York Review of Books, 13 July, 61. replies to the letter (in the same issue) of J. Herbie DiFonzo concerning Mailer’s explanations in 95.15 of Jack Ruby’s movements just before he killed Lee Harvey Oswald. Mailer points out that while Ruby’s movements “are epistemologically dysfunctional,” the key fact “is that Ruby was not only an amateur hit man but was scared stiff of the task before him.”
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95.3

“Mailer Gives Sneak Peek at New Book.” Article by Andrea Ahles. Daily Pennsylvanian, 23 March, 1, 7. Brief report on ’s 22 March reading at University of Pennsylvania’s Harrison Auditorium, one of a series of events included in his 20–23 March visit to the campus. Mailer gave his first reading from Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (95.16). In response to a question about his conclusions as to Oswald’s complicity in J.F.K.’s assassination, he said, “He was perfectly capable of committing the crime alone. But whether he did or not is another question.” See spring 1983 entries, 95.2, 95.4–95.7, 95.12.
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95.30

“A Tribute to the United Nations.” Wall Street Journal, 25 July, Sec. A, p. 3. Quarter-page photograph of by Nancy Crampton (same as on dustwrapper of 95.16) with the following statement: “The United Nations has endured through all the massive maneuvers of the Cold War and all the chaos that has followed. If our hope of peace is to be achieved, it can probably not be realized without the presence of the United Nations as mediator.” The statement was paid for by Swissair.
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95.30a

“The Soul’s Ecologist.” Article-interview by N.B. Under the Elms (Brown University Alumni Magazine), September. Internet. Brief report on ’s April 1995 appearance at the Salomon Center at Brown. He opined on plastic: “It is the excrement of oil, it is the waste product of oil”; modern architecture: “If the building you are in is less agreeable than the building across the street, then the one you are in was put up later”; Republicans: “They’re all consummate liars. If only they could go back to an earlier happy state when, like Democrats, they were just hypocrites”; Bill Clinton: “He’s intelligent, good-looking, charming. He has only one flaw: He’s not willing to die for an idea”: Lee Harvey Oswald: “Slowly and glumly, I came to the conclusion that Oswald did it himself”; race relations: “We finally have to come to grips with the American disease, and that’s relations between black and white.”
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95.31

“Character Assassination.” Article-interview by Clive Davis. Sunday Times (London), 3 September, 12–13. Round-up of new doings on the Oswald/J.F.K./conspiracy front, with quotes from and Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of J.F.K., and snippets from the Internet. Davis reports that the English edition of 95.16 would appear the same week as this article.
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95.32

“Norman Mailer: Tough Fights.” Interview by Harvey Blume. Boston Book Review, September, 3, 33–34. Blume’s interview on Oswald’s Tale (95.16) comes from the same Cambridge, Mass., session several months earlier as 95.22 and 95.24.
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95.33

“Callow Young Genius.” Interview by Barbara Probst Solomon. New York, 11 September, 81–84. First (and one of the best) interviews on Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man (95.38). Solomon leads into a thoughtful discussion of the young Picasso, sex, narcissism, science and painting. Mailer also anticipates, correctly, the response of art critics to 95.38:
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95.34

“Page Six: Mailer’s Ex-Lover Writes It Down.” Column by Richard Johnson, with Jeane MacIntosh and Sean Gannon. New York Post, 15 September, 6. responds to comments by Carole Mallory that she is writing a biography, titled “On Mailer,” detailing her affair with him. In his statement, Mailer says, “I am guilty of a few extramarital episodes over the years, and Carole is one of them. Now, at the age of 72, these are matters to regret since I adore my wife and was much in love with her even when I was being unfaithful.”
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95.35

“I Ask the Questions (Such as: What’s an Old Warhorse like You Doing Drinking Iced Tea?).” Article-interview by Dermot Purgavie. Mail on Sunday (London), 24 September, 3. Brief piece based on an interview at ’s Brooklyn Heights apartment. In a somewhat valedictory mood, he says,
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95.36

“Why Picasso Biography Quotes So Fully.” Letter to the editor. New York Times, 3 October, Sec. C, p. 24. complains that Michiko Kakutani “not only gave a very bad review to my last book, Oswald’s Tale,95.16 but rushed to put it into print….Now, she has done it once more. Ms. Kakutani (Arts pages, Sept. 29) has rushed into print to attack my new book, Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man,95.38 and is again two weeks early.” Kakutani did it again in 1997 when she blasted The Gospel According to the Son (97.13) on 14 April, more than two weeks before it was published. Mailer’s letter is dated, Provincetown, Mass., 2 October. See 03.2, 05.10, 07.2. Rpt: 14.3.
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95.37

“Mailer on Mailer.” Interview by Michael Mailer. Photograph by Frank W. Ockenfels. Time Out (New York), 11–18 October, 20-21, 23. Thoughtful exploration of 95.38 with his eldest son, including discussion of Picasso as a celebrity, narcissist, and explorer of the secrets of the universe, and his relations with women. Mailer also reveals that his three self-interviews of the early 60s came out of his effort to write a biography of Picasso:
See 59.8, 61.10, 88.6.
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95.38

====Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 15 October; London: Little, Brown. 284 illustrations, including 48 color plates, 400 pp., $35.====
Dedication: “To Judith McNally; For her insights and her labors large and small that contributed so much to the publication of this work.” Discarded title: “Pablo and Fernande: Portrait of Picasso as a Young Artist.” See 59.8, 61.10, 93.4, 93.5, 94.8, 1995 entries, 96.3.
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95.39

“Black and White Justice.” Interview by Michael Mailer. New York, 16 October, 28–32. Exploration of the O.J. Simpson case, shortly after the not-guilty verdict. says that “blacks can see themselves as inhabitants, willy-nilly of a powerful, vain, imperial-minded country that’s shooting itself in the foot. Only they are the foot.”
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95.4

“Mailer Talks on the Ills of Advertising.” Article by Tammy Polonsky. Daily Pennsylvanian, 24 March, 1. Report on a 23 March symposium titled “Advertising in America” in Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania, moderated by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School of Communication. Besides , two Penn professors took part: Law School Professor Ed Baker and Communication Professor Joseph Turow. See spring 1983 entries, 95.2, 95.3, 95.5–95.7, 95.12.
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95.40

“Norman Mailer: Literary Tough Guy Takes on Picasso’s High-Stakes Cubist Gamble.” Article-interview by Michael Hollett. Now (Toronto), 19–25 October, 32–33; cover photograph of . Mailer discusses 95.38 at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, focusing on Picasso’s relationship with women, with asides on Lee Harvey Oswald.
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