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83.6

“On the Scholarly Trail of the New Revisionists.” Article-interview by Herbert Mitgang. New York Times, 10 February, Sec. C, p. 22. Explanation of how the work of several authors—Ignazio Silone, Mailer, Mark Twain, Henry James and Anthony Trollope—was revised in one way or another. Mitgang reports on Hershel Parker’s comparison of the Esquire version of An American Dream (64.2–64.9) with the Dial Press book version (65.7), including the original manuscripts. Parker concluded that the magazine version was superior. Mailer said, “I think the Dial version is better. The publisher preferred to print the Esquire serial, but I devoted four months to revising it for the book.” Parker’s essay was collected in his volume Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press). See 65.3.
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83.6a

“In Paris, Celebrities Talk of Arts and the Economy.” Article-interview by E. J. Dionne, Jr. New York Times, 14 February, C12. Account of a French government conference in Paris, “The Cultural Congress of Paris: Creation and Development,” attended by artists and intellectuals, which focused on vague, abstract topic, addressed by long-winded speakers. ’s comment: “When a French savant encounters a guest who fills him with consternation, he speaks only in full paragraphs.”
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83.7

“Norman Mailer Finally Delivers the ‘Big One.’ ” Article-interview by Digby Diehl. Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 23 February, Sec. C, pp. 1, 6. The last and best article on the Lotos Club luncheon. Diehl covers most of the same ground as the others, but also includes Mailer’s comments on the complexity of the ancient Egyptian language, his effort to remove anachronisms, and his plan, later dropped, to use Ancient Evenings (83.18) as the first volume in a trilogy: “After this novel, the next one will be set in the future, although not conventional science fiction, I hope. And the third one will take place in the contemporary era.” When asked how this novel, 11 years in the writing, ranks with his others, he says, “This is my best book, or I’ve been married to the wrong woman for 11 years.” See 83.2–83.5, 83.22.
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83.8

“The World’s Greatest Minds Convene, and Agree: Paris Is Better than Dallas.” Article by Pamela Andriotakis and Joel Stratte-McClure. People Weekly, 28 February, 32–33. Frothy piece on some of the 300 intellectuals (including [[Norman Mailer|Mailer] and William Styron) invited to Paris by Culture Minister Jack Lang 12–13 February to attend “The Cultural Congress of Paris: Creation and Development.” Mailer is quoted briefly.
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83.9

“A Room in the Mind’s Eye.” House and Garden, March, 100–103. Advance excerpt from Ancient Evenings (83.18). Rpt: Appearing about a month before the novel, this excerpt is taken from the opening of chapter 4, book 3, “The Book of the Child.”
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84.1

"Mailer Will Star with His Movies". Article-interview by Nan Robertson. New York Times, 19 January, Sec. C, p. 17. Mailer discusses the making of Maidstone (71.28) on the occasion of its showing, along with his 1967 film, Beyond the Law, and a documentary, Norman Mailer: A Sanction to Write, at the Thalia Theater in New York. Mailer tells Robertson his current opinion of Maidstone: "Now I think it's a terribly flawed and imperfect movie that's really interesting for people who are obsessed by film. The production is an interesting idea, made by a man who didn't know how to make movies". See 81.19, 84.3.
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84.10

“An Excerpt [from Tough Guys Don’t Dance].” USA Today, 27 July, Sec. D, p. 3. Accompanying John D. MacDonald’s review is this brief excerpt from the last page of chapter 2 of 84.17, detailing Tim Madden’s discovery of a severed blonde head in his marijuana hiding place in the Truro woods. MacDonald calls the passage “a good example of Mailer guile and versatility—Tim Madden finding a head, done in the formal archaic structures of Poe.”
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84.11

“Provincetown.” New York Times Book Review, 29 July, 33. Accompanying Denis Donoghue’s review is this brief excerpt from chapter 1 of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), a description of the quality of light in Provincetown: “Perhaps this is why Provincetown is so beautiful. Conceived at night (for one would swear it was created in the course of one dark storm) its sand flats glistened in the dawn with the moist primeval innocence of land exposing itself to the sun for the first time. Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown….”
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84.12

“Norman Mailer.” Interview by Chuck Pfeifer. Interview, August, 58–60. Extended remarks on homosexuality, especially in Ancient Evenings (83.18) and Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), with briefer comment on the Italians of Brooklyn, Dotson Rader, Tennessee Williams, feminism, Russia, Marlon Brando, Jean-Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner. Rpt: In part in Sunday, Boston Herald Magazine, 21 October, 3–6; cover photograph of Mailer.
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84.14

“Mailer: Tough Guy at Ease in P’town.” Article-interview by Peter E. Howard. Cape Cod Times, 12 August, 1, 12–13; front page photograph of Mailer. The conversation focuses mainly on 84.17, with a long aside on feminism. Mailer says, “I always wanted to write a book about Provincetown….It’s full of mood. I think the mark of a good murder mystery is that it is full of mood.”
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84.15b

“Mailer Says Soviets Improving.” AP wire story, 17 August. Contains quote from 84.16 on how Russia has changed “from a stern, war-rationed economy, bulwarked by prodigious terror, to an immense welfare state drowning in cynicism, bribery, waste, shoddy products and oppression.”
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84.17

====Tough Guys Don’t Dance. New York: Random House, 20 August; London: Michael Joseph, 15 October. Novel, 229 pp., $16.95.====
A signed, leather-bound edition appeared simultaneously carrying a one-page preface, “A Special Message for the First Edition by Norman Mailer,” and accompanied by his poem about Provincetown, “The Harbors of the Moon,” from Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3). Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, $75.
Dedication: “To Scott Meredith.” The dustwrapper photograph is by ’s Provincetown neighbor, Joel Meyerowitz. Rpt: Lengthy advance excerpts appeared in Vanity Fair (84.4, 84.7); brief ones in USA Today (84.10), New York Times Book Review (84.11), Time (84.13) and Los Angeles Herald Examiner (84.15); 98.7 (partial). The novel climbed to number four on the New York Times Book Review bestseller list on 30 September. See other 1984 entries and, for comment on the film version of the novel, see 1986 and 1987 entries.
==Bibliography==
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* Mixed. Rpt: In Amis’s The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000, 267–72. London: Jonathan Cape, 2001.
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84.18

“The Essential Mailer: Author Norman Mailer Talks about His New Novel, the Irish, and His Love for Chicago.” Article-interview by Eugene Kennedy. Sunday, Chicago Tribune Magazine, 9 September, 23–25, 28–29. Perhaps Mailer’s longest utterance on the Irish, given in the midst of a discussion of 84.17. Rpt: 88.6. See 68.26.
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84.19

“Inc.: Norman on Women.” Column by Sneed and [Cheryl] Lavin. Chicago Tribune, 9 September, Sec. 1, p. 2. Brief comments on the Women’s Liberation movement, Geraldine Ferraro, and President Reagan: “I think he has a brain that’s never been violated by an intellectual concept.”
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84.2

“Tough Guys Don’t Dance: An Exclusive Interview with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Luke Breit. Poet News: Sacramento’s Literary Calendar and Review, April, 1–3, 5, 7. Telephone interview. Mailer comments on a number of matters including feminism, architecture, how he came to translate (with his daughter Susan) Federico García Lorca’s “Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías” (67.22), President Reagan and Russia, and, at great length, the reviews of Ancient Evenings (83.18). His comments on Reagan and Russia lie at the heart of his motivation for several future projects: “I think when Reagan called Russia ‘an evil force,’ he did the worst possible single thing he could have done in terms of bringing our countries closer together. Nothing could have driven them further apart.” Finally, Mailer describes the forthcoming Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), set in Provincetown, as a novel “written in an entirely American idiom.” Lorca’s translated poem accompanies the interview.
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84.20

“Crime and Puzzlement: The Real-Life Mystery behind Norman Mailer’s New Thriller.” Article-interview by Andrea Chambers. People Weekly, 10 September, 42–45. Discussion of the attempt by federal officials to entrap Mailer in the drug-dealing of his friend Buzz Farbar by recording a luncheon conversation. Mailer was not involved and the attempt failed. Farbar was convicted, went to prison for eight years, and later committed suicide. What is especially reprehensible, Mailer says, “is when the government tries to get a man to entrap his friend.”
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84.21

“Norman Mailer: Tough Writers Like Him Can Take a Little Heat When Moving in New Directions.” Article-interview by Karen Heller. USA Today, 12 September, Sec. D, p. 1. Discussion of 84.17 with an aside on Truman Capote who died shortly before.
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84.22

“Norman Mailer: Doing a Number on the American Dream.” Article-interview by Jerry Bauer. Midweek (London), 20 September, 4–6. Despite several errors, Bauer’s piece has some good exchanges with Mailer, whom he interviewed in his Brooklyn home over dinner. On Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17): “From the title, you can tell I didn’t take myself too seriously. I hope the reader won’t either. I want him to have fun with the book.”
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84.22a

“For Mailer, a ‘Tough’ Job: Pounds for His Thoughts.” Article-interview by Gary Abrams. Los Angeles Times, 23 September. Mailer discusses 84.17, and also speaks of his public reputation: “I think I probably give the American public a headache because everything about me is so contradictory. I’m an oxymoron to the American public—I’m a wild man, I’m a family man; I’m a great writer; I can’t write at all. So I think the average person bridles a little but when they hear my name.”
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84.23a

“Mailer Calls God the Best Novelist.” Article-interview by Richard Kenyon. Milwaukee Journal, 4 October. On the book tour for 84.17, Mailer talks about how much writing time he has remaining: “Maybe I have 10 years left to write, maybe 15 and that’s stretching it. I don’t know if I want to spend a year or two on journalism, unless the event is enormous and I feel I can bring something special to it.” He also says that after he finished The Execution’s Song (79.14) “I was impressed by how God is a better novelist than the novelist. That is, if I had imagined the book, I would have done certain things with the character and they wouldn’t have been as interesting as the real things that happened with the characters in the story.”
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84.23b

“Taming of a Tough Guy.” Article-interview by Vicki Mays. Syndicated Features Limited (London), mid-October. This five-page piece was presumably published in the U.K., but the publication has not been located. Mailer talks about Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), The Naked and the Dead (48.2), and The Executioner’s Song (79.14), and the way the media has depicted him: “When I read things about me I am always struck by how far away from me they are. It doesn’t mean they are not accurate but my actions always seem so bizarre in print because the inner connections are not there. I seem to extraordinarily eccentric.” He says he is reluctant to write his own autobiography: “It has got to be accurate and that means I have got to go back and check what happened.” He added, “Also, it would mean a total surrender to self-absorption.”
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84.24

“Thoughts of a Tough Guy.” Article-interview by Dermot Purgavie. Mail On Sunday Magazine, 14 October, 78. In this interview, conducted partly in Brooklyn and partly in London, where Mailer traveled for the 15 October publication of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), Mailer explains how he came to write it:
See 84.23.
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84.26

“Television: Fisticuffs.” Column by Hugo Williams. New Statesman, 19 October, 39–40. Report on a 14 October London television program, “Face the Press.” Mailer is sharply questioned by journalists Germaine Greer, Christopher Hitchens and Anthony Howard on what they take to be his obsession with homoeroticism in 84.17.
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84.26a

“Behind the Image.” Article-interview by Albert Watson. The Newcastle Journal, 20 October, 10. Mailer discusses 84.17, and also talks about his self-image in the 1940s: “As a young man I was very shy, thought I can’t pretend I haven’t changed since then. It was like being a bird in the jungle, living the life of a bird, and suddenly being treated like a lion. You have to stalk though that jungle like a lion, knowing all the time that you’re really a bird.”
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84.27

“Mailer and the Engines of Destruction.” Article-interview by Terry Coleman. Guardian, 20 October. Rambling discussion at Brown’s Hotel in London during Mailer’s tour to promote 84.17. Politics—President Reagan, Geraldine Ferraro, Margaret Thatcher and Casper Weinberger—are discussed more than literature. Mailer says that Reagan “believes America’s a magical place. And that everything will turn out all right. That’s what they used to tell us in B-movies 50 years ago.”
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84.27a

“Mailer’s Energy Peps Up Union Proceedings.” Article-interview by Peter Aspeden. Cambridge [U.K.] Evening News, 22 October. Mailer criticizes modernity while visiting the Cambridge Union: “All of our achievements are deteriorations of our lives—super highways which take all the joy out of driving, airports which make the air wretched, carpets made out of hostile vinyl fibers which spear into your feet. It’s kind of depressing.”
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84.27b

“Mailer Says Feminists and Ferraro Will Cost Mondale the Election.” Article-interview by George B. Clay, Sr. Springville Journal (East Aurora, New York), 1 November. “Ferraro is a stunning candidate,” said, but will cost the Democrats the election. The Democrats, he said, should have learned about selecting a candidate too early following the fiasco with Sen. Thomas Eagleton, George McGovern’s first running mate. He added that feminists on a power trip “have become the Republicans’ greatest unwitting friend.” He added that J.F.K. was a great candidate because he was an existentialist: “You simply didn’t know where America was going to go.” 
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84.29

“Norman Mailer: Face to Face.” Interview by Dan Treisman and Robin Davis. Isis: Oxford University Magazine, November or December, 8–9. Unremarkable interview in which Mailer touches several subjects lightly, including 84.17, Ernest Hemingway, his theology, his image and Margaret Thatcher: “She’s probably the best politician I’ve ever seen at work anywhere.”
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84.3

“Mailer Evening? Well, Maybe…One Hour Was Norman on Film.” Article by Lee Dykas. Providence Journal, 16 April, Sec. A, p. 1. Report on Mailer’s appearance at Sayles Hall, Brown University, where he answered questions after showing a documentary film about him. He stated that Ancient Evenings (83.18) “may have to stand alone” because he might not write the next two volumes of the planned trilogy. See 84.1.
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84.30

“Norman Mailer: The Prisoner of Celebrity.” Article-interview by Mark Bowden. Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, 2 December, 40–44. Another report, presumably the last, based on the May dinner party thrown by Random House to promote 84.17, and a small news conference at Random House three months later when 84.17 had risen to the middle of most bestseller lists. The interview is valuable for Mailer’s long statement about his unwillingness to plot his books out ahead of time: “Knowing what the plot of my book was going to be in detail would be like being married to someone whose every habit you knew.” See 84.5, 84.6, 84.8.
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84.31

“Mailer and [Erskine] Caldwell Join Academy’s Select 50.” Article by Herbert Mitgang. New York Times, 8 December, 13. Report on the 7 December induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters of two new members to fill the chairs of departed members. Mailer inherited chair 19, last held by Tennessee Williams and before that by Alexander Calder.
In a citation by the Academy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. said: “In a career of living dangerously, he has shown qualities of passion, imagination, literary power and psychological subtlety that will surely make posterity regard him as one of the giants—if at times a wounded giant—of our age. See 98.4.
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84.32

“Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100.” New York Times Book Review, 9 December, 1, 36–37. Essay. Mailer’s only extended comment on nineteenth-century American literature, and one of his finest literary essays. Rpt: Chicago Tribune Magazine, 27 January 1985; 85.12, 98.7, 13.1.
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84.34

“Norman Mailer: Fact and Fiction.” Interview by Harvey Aronson. PD: Sunday Magazine of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 16 December, 4–6, 22–23. Solid interview that deals not with how Mailer lives, but how he writes. Asked if he outlined Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17) in his head, Mailer said: “More or less. The nearer I’d come to the approaching chapter, the more outline I’d get in my head. But I never try to tap my head, so to speak…I respect my unconscious. I walk around it.”
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84.35

The Last Night. New York: Targ Editions. Story, 31 pp., $100. No dedication. Limited edition of 250 copies. Rpt: From the December 1963 Esquire (63.39), with the incorrect notation that it appeared there in December 1962; 66.11, 67.11, 82.19.
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84.3a

“Norman Mailer Lets Film Do the Talking at Brown.” Article-interview by Lee Dykas. Providence Journal, 17 April. Answering questions after the showing of a documentary film profiling him, was asked to name his most important work. He said that Ancient Evenings (83.18) “can stand alone,” adding that it was the first volume of a trilogy, but it may be lonely because “I may not write the other two.”
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84.4

“Tough Guys Don’t Dance.” Vanity Fair, May, 74–90, 105–106. Advance excerpt (one of two, see 84.7) from novel of same title (84.17). Accompanied by Irving Penn’s photograph of Mailer. Rpt: Appearing six months before the novel, this excerpt consists of chapters 1 and 2 of the published novel, with only a few small changes.
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84.5

“Mailer Muses on Marriage and Updike.” Article by unidentified writer. USA Today, 31 May. Brief comments by Mailer on Hilary Mills’s biography (82.23) and John Updike’s style, which is mentioned in Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17). Mailer made his comments at a Washington D.C. party given by his publisher to launch 84.17. See 83.32, 83.50, 84.6, 84.8, 84.30.
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84.6

“Mailer Presides over a Novel Launching.” Article-interview by John Blades. Chicago Tribune, 31 May, Sec. 5, p. 9. Longer report on the Washington, D.C. dinner for book editors given by Random House to promote the forthcoming Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17). Mailer reports that he was “shocked” that Little, Brown, to whom he owed a book under a previous contract, didn’t like 84.17; Random House took it over as the first book under its new contract with Mailer. Mailer says he would like “to write a western as good as Ed Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times and Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s The Ox-Bow Incident,” but not a romance, because “D.H. Lawrence did it all when it came to romance.” See 84.5, 84.8, 84.30.
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84.7

“Tough Guys Don’t Dance.” Vanity Fair, June, 74–90, 110. Advance excerpt from novel of same title (84.17). Accompanied by Irving Penn’s photograph of Mailer. Rpt: Appearing five months before the novel, this excerpt covers pages 81–126, or most of chapters 4 and 5 of the novel as published, with eight excisions of a line or two. See 84.4.
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84.7a

“Mailer Breaks Taboo.” Article-interview by Betsy Kline. Kansas City Star, 3 June, 9d. At a book publicity party in Washington D.C., Mailer described his forthcoming novel, Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), as a “mystery inspired by [Dashiell] Hammett, [Raymond] Chandler and [Georges] Simenon . . . The emphasis is on characters at the expense of suspense and the plot.” Bracketed material is in original.
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84.7b

“Mercy, LIU Graduates Warned of threat of Self-Expression.” Article by Michael Sweeney. Gannett Westchester Newspapers, 4 June, A5. Summary of Mailer’s 3 June commencement address to the graduates of Mercy College and Long Island University’s Westchester campus. He warned the graduates against self-pity, calling it “the most corrosive human emotion known to man or woman. It inspires human sympathy for no one else. It merely diminishes the person carrying it.” Mailer was awarded an honorary doctorate of letters by Mercy College.
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