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“Mailer’s Vast Archives to Be Housed in Texas.” Article-interview by Lianne Hart. Los Angeles Times, 1 May. Thomas Staley, director of the Harry Ransom Center, described the papers as “the Platonic conception of what an archive should be.” Mailer said he decided to sell his papers to the Ransom Center because it was “the greatest collection of literary archives to be found in America.” See 05.3, 05.4, 05.6, 05.9, 05.12, 05.13.
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05.6

“Mailer Archives in Texas.” Article-interview by Jim Vertuno. AP wire story, early May. said that he might have been a blogger if there had been an Internet in the 1950s. He also stated that one reason he sold his papers to Texas was that he served with a Texas outfit during WWII. See 05.3–05.5, 05.9, 05.12, 05.13.
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05.8a

“Don’t be a Blogger Manqué, Norman Mailer.” Blog entry by Jay Rosen. Huffington Post, 28 June. Rosen attempts to encourage to start blogging, and quotes him: “In the ’50s, you couldn’t get anything interesting published,” adding that he “might have been a blogger if there had been an internet back then.”
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05.9

“Norman Mailer: The Last Buccaneer Looks Back.” Article-interview by Douglas Brinkley. Rolling Stone, ns. 977/978, 30 June–14 July, 84, 85, 88, 90, 92, 94, 95, 162, 166. Retrospective Look at ’s career by a professional biographer on the occasion of the sale of his papers. Mailer made negative, quasi-racist remarks about New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani in this interview that came back to haunt him. See 05.3–05.6, 05.12, 05.13.
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06.1

“A Conversation with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Marcia Karp. ALSC Newsletter (publication of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics), 12 (winter), 10–11. Excerpts from the keynote event of the 205 ALSC conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at which J. Michael Lennon interviewed . Asked about the 1950s, Mailer said [ellipses in original]:
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06.10

“Norman Mailer on Anger and Love.” Lifelines: Unusual Characters Tell Their Stories, by Marie-Louise Von Der Leyen. Munich: Piper Verlag. Omnibus interview in which Mailer discusses WWII, Orson Welles, his visits to Moscow, marriage, his wife Norris, and the unconscious: “The unconscious mind is almost a separate creature within you that has its own needs and its own demands. As a writer you should definitely pay attention to it.”
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06.2

=====The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America. With John Buffalo Mailer. New York, Nation Books, February. Series of conversations between the Mailers, father and son, 218 pp., $14.95=====
Dedication: “To a lovely lady — Norris Church Mailer.” Soft cover. Some of the conversations in this collection appeared in a different form in the following: 04.7, 04.14, 05.2, and a speech gave to the Neiman Fellows at Harvard, 6 December 2004.
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06.3

“The Nerve Interview: Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer.” By Will Doig for Dead End Follies. Conducted in March. Sex, marriage and feminism are the key topics in this interview. also notes that he likes Donald Rumsfeld better than any of the other neocons because he looks like his father, I. B. Mailer.
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06.4

“Still Punching.” Interview by Howard Halle. Time Out New York, 2–8 March, 160. jumps all over corporations and the Bush administration, saying both have “an absolute emptiness of moral ethos.” He also praises Oprah Winfrey for reviving interest in Tolstoy and Anna Karenina.
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06.7

“Flag-waving U.S. Shows Signs of Totalitarianism.” Interview with Takaaki Misuno. Asahi Shimbum (English language edition) Tokyo, 14 September, 28. Focuses on the threat to democracy created by the war in Iraq, and also contains first notice of ’s forthcoming novel, The Castle in the Forest (07.10)
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06.8a

“Taking a trip to Mr. Mailer’s Planet.” Article-interview by Jeff Salamon. Austin American-Statesman, 19 November. Report on a conference the previous week at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas-Austin, “The Sense of Our Time: Norman Mailer and America in Conflict.” The author comments on the remarks of key speakers: , Robert F. Lucid, Gay Talese, Sam Tanenhaus, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Alan Petigny, and Janet Davis. Mailer read from Why Are We at War? (03.18), which he said was “far from the best of my writing.” Several of the participants debated the respective merits of the work of Mailer and Saul Bellow.
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06.9

Love Bade Me Welcome: The Life of Phyllis Ott. By Phyllis Silverman Ott-Toltz and Barbara Bamberger Scott. Lake Forest, CA: Behler Publications. Memoir by the sister of 's first wife, Beatrice Silverman. “Sliver,” as she was called, was the roommate of Mailer's sister at Radcliffe, and later had an affair with Mailer, which she discusses.
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07.10

Dedication: “To my grandchildren, Valentina Colodro, Alejandro Colodro, Isabella Moschen, Christina Marie Nastasi, Callan Mailer, Theodore Mailer, Natasha Lancaster, Mattie James Mailer, Cyrus Force Mailer, and to my grand-niece Eden River Alson as well to my godchildren, Kittredge Fisher, Clay Fisher, Sebastian Rosthal, and Julian Rosthal.”
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07.11

“Literary Lion Not So Sure about the Big Catch Anymore.” Article-interview by John Freeman. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 January. says that one early review of The Castle in the Forest (07.10) said that he was just re-writing Freud on the matter of toilet training: “Well, as a father of eight children, I do know a bit about toilet training.” As for reviews generally: “one of the advantages of getting old, is you really don’t give a (expletive) anymore. What are they going to do, come and kill me? Fine, make a martyr out of me! Make me immortal!”
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07.12

“Stormin’ Norman Defends his ‘Castle.’ ” New York Daily News, 26 January. extends his feud with New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani in his comments to this paper. He says that his angry comments directed at her made her ineligible to review his Hitler novel—the Times won’t let their critics review books by friends or enemies—so the task fell to another critic at the paper, Janet Maslin, who gave it a mixed to poor review. “Janet Maslin is a Kakutani clone,” Mailer said. “You can quote me on that.”
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07.13

“Mailer’s Novel Ideas about Hitler.” Article-interview by Judy Stoffman. Toronto Star, 28 January, C04. Stoffman repeats the ancient factoid that was forced to use “fug” by the publisher of The Naked and the Dead (48.2). For his part, Mailer says that he is “so tired of hearing f—k. It was once a wonderful word and now it’s totally used up.” He adds: “People used to read novels to learn more about life. Now they turn on the TV—it’s what people talk about at dinner parties, not books. It’s painful to watch your profession diminish.” His last comment is this thin piece is that he would like to see Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton together on the Democratic ticket.
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07.14

“Still a Brawler at Heart.” Article by Simon Houpt. Globe and Mail (Toronto), 27 January, 4. Account of an on-stage conversation between Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the New York Times Book Review and on 23 January, and at a Random House press conference the next day. Mailer says of Hitler’s father Alois, “There was never a cook or chambermaid who was safe around him.” He adds: “This is not myself.” At the press conference, he says that Hitler did damage to the way Jews now think: “there’s too much of that notion: Is this good for the Jews? The moment something comes up that might be slightly unfavorable for the Jews, all thought shuts down.” Mailer says it is too late for him to write an autobiography and that he has no real interest in himself “as a literary subject.”
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07.15

“Demon Seed: Norman Mailer Imagines Hitler as a Young Man.” Article-interview by Pete Pavia. New York Post, 28 January, 47. says, “I can’t say that Milton’s imagination had too much influence on my writing. I read [Paradise Lost] but by the time I started writing this book, I had already developed my own ideas.”
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07.16

“Norman Mailer Tackles Hitler’s Youth.” Article-interview by Dylan Foley. Denver Post, 28 January. Interviewed in Provincetown, says, “Hitler has always been very real to me and frightening. There is a part of me that has concentrated on Hitler my whole life. I wasn’t that surprised when I started writing about him.” He adds that in writing his novel, “It occurred to me that there was a bureaucracy to Satan. The Devils are working all the time.” He also states that “if Jesus was born as God’s son, I would go so far as to say that Hitler was born as the Devil’s son.”
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07.17

“Mailer’s Young Hitler Novel Angers Germans.” Article-interview by Jess Smee. Guardian, 29 January. ’s Hitler novel was criticized by the vice president of Germany’s influential Central Council of Jews, Salomon Korn, who said “art will never achieve and understanding” of Hitler. Mailer denied that he used Hitler’s background to explain the extermination of the Jews, calling such a claim, “cheap and hateful.”
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07.18

“Epilogue, A Rough Draft.” Article-interview by Josh Getlin. Los Angeles Times, 4 February. summarizes his achievements in biography, saying he was “less successful with Jesus, because ultimately you can’t penetrate into the nature of Jesus.” He felt his portrait of Marilyn was superior to that of Henry Miller, “because he’s such a great writer.” He gave himself higher marks for his portrait of Muhammad Ali in The Fight (75.12) because he knew him so well: “There was a confidence, an excitement, an expressiveness about him that made it very easy to write.” Writing about Picasso taught him about “the meanness, the spite, the ugliness and the backbiting in the literary world is miniscule compared to what goes on in the art world.” Of The Castle in the Forest (07.10), he says: “It has more profoundly disturbing ideas in it than any book I’ve written.”
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07.2

“The Last Man Standing.” Profile-interview by Tom Junod. Esquire, 108–115, 131–133. is quoted several times in this piece, which ranges over his career. Michiko Kakutani is the target of Mailer’s anger. He calls her “Princess of the cookie cutter…What put that hair up her immortal Japanese ass is beyond me.” See 95.36, 03.2, 05.10.
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07.20

“Writing with the Devil.” Interview by Nan Goldberg. Boston Globe, 4 February. Asked if giving the Devil so much influence over Hitler in The Castle in the Forest (07.10) diminishes his culpability, said, “I don’t think I changed the equation. What’s important is that there’s an evil force in the world which is huge and immense and in my opinion is probably equal to God. I think they are having an immense and terrible war.”
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07.21

“Norman Mailer Talks about ‘Incestuary’ Hitler, Satan, Monroe.” Article-interview by Robert Hilferty. Bloomberg, 7 February. Asked if he has any regrets, said that at 84, “you regret things much less. You rue them a little. You’re almost bemused by some of the bad things you’ve done. And so I don’t regret intensely. I don’t knock myself out that I never laid Marilyn Monroe.”
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07.22

“Author! Author! The Devil and Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Dwayne Booth. L.A. Weekly, 14 February. Contains only a few quotes, mainly about the three-way struggle among God, the Devil and humanity. Booth states that stabbed his wife with a steak knife, an error that a competent reporter could have eliminated with a modicum of research.
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07.23

“Hitler in My Mind: The Roots of The Castle in the Forest.” Provincetown Arts (2007-2008), 92–94. Interview with J. Michael Lennon, conducted 12 September 2006. Rpt: “The Castle in the Forest: A Conversation with Norman Mailer.” Mailer Review (2008), 421–425.
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07.26

“Ancient Evening.” Article by Andrew Hultkrans. ArtForum, 27 April. Account of receiving the Hadada Award from the Paris Review, presented by E. L. Doctorow. Asked by editor Philip Gourevitch, to define a novel, Mailer said: “A Novel is history.” Actual history books are biased he said, “Histories are made of rotten bricks. Novels lay straw in the mortar.” As for style: “Style covers the waterfront. Style is charm, but it limits the writer’s ability.”
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07.27

“Father, Son Share Stage.” Article by Laura T. Ryan. (Syracuse) Post-Standard, 11 May. Account of a 10 May reading by and his son John Buffalo at Syracuse University’s Crouse-Hinds Theater. Mailer attacked fundamentalism, saying that it “may well be the concept that destroys our world, our civilization.” He called human beings, “God’s reconnaissance into the nature of existence.”
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07.28a

“Writers Take Out their Knives.” Article-interview Motoko Rich. New York Times. “Ideas and Trends,” 20 May, 3. Seven writers (, Christopher Buckley, Ann Patchett, Stephen King, Neal Pollack, Joyce Carol Oates and Jonathan Franzen) are asked to name some books in need of truncation. Mailer’s list: For Whom the Bell Tolls, U.S.A., Absalom, Absalom, The Grapes of Wrath, Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, You Can’t Go Home Again, Some Came Running, Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, Beloved, The World According to Garp, and three of his own: The Executioner’s Song, Ancient Evenings, Harlot’s Ghost. See 91.31a.
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07.29

“The Pictures: Tough Guys.” Article-interview by Mark Singer. New Yorker, 21 May, 30–31. Account of a reunion of some of the cast and crew of ’s 1987 film, Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17) at his Brooklyn apartment. Mailer says that his memory
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07.3

“The Proust Questionnaire: Norman Mailer.” Vanity Fair, January. Thirty-eight questions that originated, not with Proust, but with Antoinette Faure, the daughter of a 19th century French President. Asked which historical figure he most admires, answered, “Hemingway. His suicide suggested the unseen perils of my profession.” Rpt: Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness and the Meaning of Life, 130–132. Edited by Graydon Carter. New York: Rodale, 2009.
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07.30

“Oh, the Devils He Knows.” Interview by Ron Rosenbaum. Moment: Jewish Politics, Culture & Religion, June, 30–35, 60. One of ’s longest discussions of the Holocaust and its effects. In the 1950s, the mass extermination of Jews, he says, made him begin to think that death was becoming meaningless. He recoiled from this idea: “Death is important, and when death is without meaning, it’s dangerous.” He also discusses how he got the idea for The Castle in the Forest (07.10) after reading Rosenbaum’s book, Explaining Hitler.
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07.31

“The Art of Fiction, No. 193, Norman Mailer.” Interview by Andrew O’Hagan. Paris Review, no. 181 (summer), 44–80. Omnibus interview conducted in April that explores many themes and ideas, and a dozen of his major books. Very important interview by a novelist who is quite familiar and friendly with Mailer. At the outset, comments on style:
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07.32

“Norman Mailer: From the Archive.” Paris Review, no. 181 (summer), 81–86. Five pages of documents from the archive at the Ransom Center, University of Texas-Austin, are reproduced on these pages, including Mailer’s sketch of the fictional island of Anopopei, the setting for The Naked and the Dead (48.2).
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07.33

“Arts, Briefly.” Squib by Lawrence Van Gelder. New York Times, 29 June. Speaking at the New York Public Library with Günter Grass, defended Grass for belatedly revealing that he had served in the Waffen-SS as a teenager. Mailer said he searched his own life to understand: “What have I held onto for so long?” He answered his own question: the stabbing of his second wife Adele in 1960. “It’s something I’ll probably never write about,” he said. See November-December 1960 entries, 07.35.
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07.34

“Tough Guys Do God.” Article-interview by Sue Fox. Jewish Chronicle, 29 June, 25–26. comments on Jews and the Holocaust in this piece. He compares New York Jews to Berlin Jews before WWII: “The fact is the Jews of New York are in the same position as the wealthy Jews were in Berlin. We do have great control over press, publishing, the arts and department stores.” On the Holocaust: “I don’t think there is any explanation for the Holocaust without positing a devil, because I find the opposite to that philosophically odious and obscene. God was testing us? God was punishing us? Those are odious arguments.”
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“Life Sentences: The U.S. Tour of Günter Grass.” Article-interview by David Streitfeld. Washington Post Book World, 12-18 August, 1, 8-9. Long analysis of the reception of Grass’s latest book, Peeling the Onion, a memoir, which includes his admission of having served as a teenager in the Waffen-SS, an elite unit that ran Hitler’s concentration camps. appeared with Grass at the New York Public Library on 27 June, his penultimate public appearance. 
Mailer, “who looked small and round and frail, sort of like the aged Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings,” defended Grass and called his book a masterpiece. He noted that he had been unable to write about the stabbing of his wife, Adele Morales, and therefore understood why it had taken Grass so long to reveal his secret Nazi affiliation: “If you can’t do it so it enlarges not only your own focus, but the focus of others, you’re better off not writing about it.” He said the stabbing was undoubtedly the reason he was not ever seriously considered for the Nobel Prize, adding this: “The Swedes are very intelligent people and they’re proud of their prize, and they’re damned if they want to give their prize to a wife stabber, and as sour and bitter as I am, I don’t think I can blame them.” Mailer said the extract from Grass’s book in The New Yorker was “certainly the best thing” in the magazine for a decade. See 07.35.
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07.37

“Mailer Gets Hammered.” Article by Gerald Howard. New York Times Book Review, 26 August 2007, 27. Account of being interviewed at the Walter Reade Theater of Lincoln Center by Michael Chaiken, Kent Jones and J. Michael Lennon prior to a showing of Maidstone (71.28) on 22 July. It was Mailer’s last public appearance. Howard focuses on his impressions of the film, but does quote Mailer’s characterization of the role of film director as being “equivalent to being a general in a war in which no blood was shed.”
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07.39

====On God: An Uncommon Conversation. With Michael Lennon. New York: Random House, 16 October. 215 pp., $26.95.====
Dedication: From : “To my wife, my sister, my children, my grandchildren”; from Lennon: “To my sisters, Kathleen Arruda and Maureen Macedo.”
Consists of edited transcripts of ten conversations between Lennon and Mailer that took place in Provincetown from June 2003 to June 2006. Rpt: 07.38, 07.43.
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07.3a

“Exploring the Roots of Evil.” Article-interview by Debbie Forman. Cape Cod Times, 15 January, C1-C2. tells Forman that “Hitler was the Devil’s answer to Jesus. I’m saying no less than that.” Asked for a comment on the many awards he has received, he compares himself to “a baseball manager who receives an award whose lifetime record is more losses than wins.”
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07.4

“Mailer Plays Devil’s Advocate.” Article-interview by Bob Minzesheimer. USA Today, 15 January, 1D–2D. states that the incest he posits in Hitler’s family “can’t be proven, but the facts of his life suggest it. There’s a great possibility that Hitler was a first or second degree incestuary,” a word Mailer made up for the novel. He added, “I’m never going to be revered for the intricacy and beauty of my plots.”
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07.42

“The Lion in Winter: Five Snapshots.” Article-interview by Andrew O’Hagan. New York Observer, 13 November. Four of the snapshots are accounts of meetings with —in Provincetown in 1997; London, 2002; Provincetown again in 2007; and at the New York Public Library, Mailer’s penultimate public appearance with Günter Grass, 28 July 2007. Asked if he feels superior to his younger self, Mailer said: “I just look at him and think what a fool he is . . . you’ve got to remain a fool at all costs.” He also tells O’Hagan that his favorite poem is Yeats’ “The Second Coming”: “It gives me the prodigious disruption that has lived at the heart of the 20th century. There is something wrong, something unbalanced about this century; we all have a sense of unease about where the future is going.”
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