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“The Dead Are Dying of Thirst: The Fight, Part I.” Playboy, May, 78–82, 104, 146, 192, 196, 198–200, 202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212–214, 216, 218, 220–222. Nonfiction narrative on the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman 30 October 1974 boxing match in Zaire. Rpt: With many changes as part I of The Fight (75.12).
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75.9

“All Night Long: The Fight, Part II.” Playboy, June, 124–126, 130, 172–184, 186–188, 192–193, 196. Nonfiction narrative on the Muhammad Ali- George Foreman 30 October 1974 boxing match in Zaire. Playboy awarded this excerpt and 75.8 its annual award for best nonfiction of 1975. Rpt: With many changes as part II of The Fight (75.12).
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76.1

“Book Ends.” Article by unidentified writer. New York Times Book Review, 14 March, 37. Report on a National Arts Club banquet in New York at which was awarded the club’s Medal of Honor for Literature. Mailer is quoted on the difficulty of writing during this period: “The nature of existence cannot be felt anymore. As novelists, we cannot locate our center of values.”
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76.10

“Two Letters from Frank Crowther.” Paris Review, no. 67 (fall), 195–198. Essay of eulogy for Crowther, who managed Mailer’s 50th birthday party and later committed suicide. Rpt: 82.16. See 73.2, 74.3, 73.18.
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76.11

“The Search for Carter.” New York Times Magazine, 26 September, 19–21, 69–85, 88–92; cover story. Essay-interview. Mailer traveled to Plains, Georgia, to interview Jimmy Carter for this piece. Rpt: Partial in both New York Times Magazine, 14 April 1996, 132, and 98.7, complete in 13.1.
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76.12

====Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller. New York: Grove, October. Anthology with critical commentary, 576 pp., $12.50.====
Dedication: “to Henry Miller.” Contains excerpts from 10 of Miller’s books—Black Spring, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, Sexus, Nexus, Plexus, Sunday after the War, The Colossus of Maroussi, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch and The Air-Conditioned Nightmare—and 88 pages, in a foreword and nine sections, of commentary by Mailer, comprising his lengthiest piece of literary criticism. The book jacket drawing of Miller is by Norris Church Mailer, his sixth wife. Discarded titles: “Mailer on Miller”; “The Cosmic Demon.”
Rpt: Part of section 2 of Mailer’s commentary appeared in 76.3; all of sections 2, 3 and 4, with a few changes, appeared in 76.4. Pieces and Pontifications (82.16) contains two excerpts: parts of the foreword and sections 1 and 2 appear as “Miller and Hemingway”; the last two-thirds of section 4, “Narcissism,” appears under the same title. Two excerpts, pp. 3–10 and 173–94, appear as “Status” and “Narcissism,” respectively, in Critical Essays on Henry Miller, edited by Ronald Gottesman. New York: G.K. Hall, 1992, brief excerpt in 13.1. See 66.14, 68.11, 77.11.
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76.13

Preface to The Presidential Papers. New York: Berkley, October, soft-cover, v–vi. This new preface is followed by a piece titled “Special Preface to the First Berkley Edition,” which is in fact the “Special Preface to the Bantam Edition” (64.15). The 1970 Berkley softcover edition also contains and mistitles the Bantam preface. The first edition of The Presidential Papers (63.37) has no preface.
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76.14

Preface to The Deer Park. New York: Berkley, November, softcover, v. This preface is only 250 words in length because Mailer had his say in “Fourth Advertisement for Myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park,” which he reprints from Advertisements for Myself (59.13) after the text in this edition. Mailer does add in the preface that the novel “is I think of all my novels the one which shows the fewest signs of the work which went into it, and I like it that way.” The first edition of The Deer Park (55.4) has no preface.
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76.15

“A Conversation between Norman Mailer and John Ehrlichman: The CIA and Watergate.” Chic 2, December, 16–21, 32, 34, 40, 70, 88, 90, 92. Mailer’s three-page introduction is followed by a transcript of his conversation with Ehrlichman. Rpt: The (blue cover) bound, uncorrected, advance proof of Pieces and Pontifications (82.16) reprinted this dialogue as “Rounding Watergate.” It was dropped from the first and subsequent printings and has been reprinted only in Best of Chic 1 (1978) and The Time of Our Time (98.7, partial).
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76.17

“Trial of the Warlock.” Playboy, December, 121–124, 126, 132, 232, 235–236, 240, 243–244, 246, 249–252, 254, 256. Screenplay adaptation of J.K. Huysmans’s 1891 novel, Lá-Bas. Playboy gave “Warlock” its annual award for best major work in fiction; it tied with an excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slapstick. Rpt: Playboy Stories: The Best of Forty Years of Short Fiction, edited by Alice K. Turner. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1993.
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76.18

“Mailer Takes on the Heavyweight Novel.” Article-interview by Herbert Mitgang. New York Times, 10 December, Sec. C, p. 24. Mailer discusses his novel-in-progress, Ancient Evenings (83.18), with additional comment on Henry Miller and Saul Bellow, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature the same day: “To my surprise, I felt good about Saul getting it, because he deserved it. I sent him a telegram of congratulations.” Rpt. Mitgang’s Words Still Count with Me: A Chronicle of Literary Conversations. New York: Norton, 1995.
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76.19

“Mailer’s Poetry Reading at the Y Rated A for Effort, X for Content.” Article by Israel Shenker. New York Times, 14 December, 24. Report, with brief quotations, of a Mailer reading at New York’s 92nd Street Y.M.-Y.W.H.A., where he read from Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3) and other works, including his novel-in-progress (83.18).
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76.21

Letter to Elsa Lanchester. In Charles Laughton: An Intimate Biography, by Charles Higham, 197–198. Mailer wrote to Laughton’s widow detailing the five days he had spent with him discussing a screenplay for The Naked and the Dead (48.2). Laughton finished a draft of the screenplay, but because of financial problems he never completed a final version and the film was produced by Paul Gregory for Warner Brothers, “with very inferior results,” according to Higham. See 87.3.
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76.21a

The Inn and Us. By Anne Edwards and Stephen Citron. New York: Random House. Memoir by the couple who ran an inn-nightclub in Stockbridge, Massachusetts where Mailer’s fifth wife, Carol Stevens sang, and where Mailer got into a head-butting contest, which is memorably described.
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76.3

“Henry Miller: Celebrating a Cause Célѐbre.” Los Angeles Times Book Review, 28 March, 1, 3. Essay. Rpt: Consists of the bulk of the first eight pages of 76.4, which itself was excerpted from the manuscript of 76.12; 82.16 (partial).
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76.4

“Henry Miller: Genius and Lust, Narcissism.” American Review: The Magazine of New Writing (formerly New American Review), no. 24 (April), 1-40; cover portrait of Mailer. Essay. Rpt: 76.3 (opening eight pages of 76.4); sections 2, 3 and 4 of Genius and Lust (76.12) correspond roughly to sections 1, 2 and 3 of 76.4; 82.16 contains a new, compressed, version of the opening chapters of 76.12.
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76.5

Dedication and acknowledgment: “To the memory of my father; In particular appreciation—Willie Morris, Midge Decter, Tom Griffith, Ralph Graves, Jack Newcombe, Molly Malone Cook, Mary Oliver, Suzanne Nye.” Discarded title: “Superman, Old Sock, Chicago and the Godfather.” Along with a new preface, this collection contains four previously published narratives on political conventions: “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” (60.9); “In the Red Light” (64.20); Miami and the Siege of Chicago (68.25); and St. George and the Godfather (72.17). Mailer quotes from the preface to 76.5 in the foreword to 98.7. See 73.35, 74.7, 92.10, 96.8, 97.1.
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76.5a

“Mailer Talks about Mailer, Heroes, Women.” Article by Robert Perry. (Newburgh, NY) Times Herald Record, 26 April, 4. At West Point, Mailer spoke of the quality of bravery, and current politics. He said, JFK “saw the country was ready for a romantic hero and ironically it was what the country needed at the time.”
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76.7

“Norman Mailer on Women, Love, Sex, Politics, and All That!” Cosmopolitan, May, 182–185, 235. Self-interview. Mailer wrote the questions, which focus on non-literary matters: marriage, sex, Women’s Liberation, drinking and marijuana, television and his novel-in-progress, Ancient Evenings (83.18).
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76.8a

“Mailer and the Siege of Rome.” Article-interview by unidentified writer. New York, 24 May, 70. Short piece on Mailer’s screen-writing effort for Italian producer, Sergio Leone, which ended in court, where Mailer finally was fully paid. Mailer explains how he spent a month in New York writing 180 pages of the script, based on the Harry Grey novel, The Hoods. Leone didn’t like his work, and spread rumors that he spent all his time in a hotel room with an 18-year-old girl, and wrote the script on cocktail napkins.
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76.9

“A Harlot High and Low: Reconnoitering through the Secret Government.” New York, 16 August, 22–32, 35–38, 43–46; cover photograph of Mailer. Essay on the CIA, Watergate, the assassination of J.F.K., and other mysteries. The essay’s subtitle, according to Mailer, is the work of the editors of New York. Harlot’s Ghost (91.26) has its origin here. Rpt: 82.16, 98.7 (partial). Subtitle dropped in reprints.
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77.11

“Writers’ Writers.” New York Times Book Review, 4 December, 3, 58, 62, 66, 70, 74. Mailer and 20 other writers respond to the question: “Who is the living writer you most admire?” Mailer says, “Good lord, I think it’s Henry Miller. Among writers nearer to my own age, I confess to a vast admiration for Gabriel García Márquez.” See 66.14, 76.12.
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77.12

“Norman Mailer: Writer.” Interview by Francesco Scavullo. In Scavullo on Men, by Francesco Scavullo, with Bob Colacello and Sean Byrnes, 126–129. New York: Random House. Focus on personal issues: marriage, divorce, children, drugs, clothes, health and aging.
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77.13

Comments. In Shadow Box, by George Plimpton, passim. New York: Putnam’s. Mailer is quoted at length in Plimpton’s book on boxing. Both of them covered the 1974 Muhammad Ali-George Foreman boxing match in Zaire. Rpt: As “Hunter Thompson and Norman Mailer” in The Best of Plimpton, edited by George Plimpton. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1980. See 75.12, 75.13, 08.3. See also “When We Were Kings,” the 1997 Academy Award-winning documentary on the fight. Both Mailer and Plimpton comment in the film on the fight of a quarter-century earlier.
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77.14

Comments. In “The Prisoner of Sex.” In We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade, by Diana Trilling, passim. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The best report on “A Dialogue on Women’s Liberation” at Town Hall in New York, 30 April 1971. Rpt: Critical Essays on Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon. Boston: G.K. Hall, December 1986. See 71.16–71.20, 71.23, 71.27.
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77.2

“Our Man at Harvard.” Esquire, April, 110–112. Memoir of the Harvard Advocate in the spring of 1942. Rpt: As Preface to First Flowering: The Best of the “Harvard Advocate.” Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley; 82.16 (where the acknowledgments incorrectly note that the piece appeared in the 22 March Esquire), 98.7 (partial). See 41.1, 75.14, 83.10, complete in 13.1.
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77.3

“Johnny Reeferseed.” Article by Barbara Amiel. Maclean’s, 13 June, 26, 29–30, 32, 34, 37–38, 40. Report on the Robert Rowbotham’s trial in Canada for smuggling hashish, with Mailer as a witness for the defense. Rowbotham was convicted and given a 14-year sentence. Complete transcript of Mailer’s testimony is given in 78.1.
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77.3a

“Literary Lasagna: A Conversation
with the Least Famous Person
You’ll See Regularly at Elaine’s.”
Article-interview by Charles T.
Powers. Rolling Stone, 6 October.
Contains interview with Elaine
Kaufman about the writers, actors
and politicians who frequented her
restaurant. Mailer is quoted briefly
about a fight he had at Elaine’s with
Jerry Leiber, the lyricist who wrote
the words to “Hound Dog,” among
other hits. Mailer spent considerable
time at Elaine’s, table No. 4.
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77.4

“Vidal Plus Mailer: Pow.” Column by Liz Smith. Daily News (New York), 26 October. Report on Mailer’s 24 October fight with Gore Vidal at Lally Weymouth’s New York party, precipitated by Vidal’s 22 July 1971 New York Review of Books review of Patriarchal Attitudes by Eva Figes. See 77.5–77.9, 85.6, 91.3.
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77.6

“ ‘The Fight,’ Starring Mailer and Vidal.” Article by Nancy Collins. Boston Globe, 28 October, 24–25. Another report on the Mailer-Vidal fight, with quotes from participants and observers. See 77.4, 77.5, 77.7–77.9, 85.6, 91.3.
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77.7

“Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots.” Esquire, November, 125–148. Listed on the table of contents page under the heading “The Big Bite” (see 62.18). Essay-memoir in which Mailer recalls his appearances on television programs with Mike Wallace (see 58.2, 58.7, 73.19, 73.23), Truman Capote and Dorothy Parker (see 59.3, 73.22), Gore Vidal, Dick Cavett and a half-dozen others while advancing his ideas of television’s deadening effects. Mailer quotes in full on 139 a letter published in Women’s Wear Daily on 7 November 1970 (see 70.13a) about Vidal. Rpt: In a limited hardcover edition of 400 copies. Northridge, Calif.: Lord John Press, 1980 (80.25); 82.16; six separate excerpts from this piece are scattered throughout The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 77.4–77.6, 77.8, 77.9, 85.6, 91.3.
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77.9

“Still Feuding after All These Years, Gore and Norman Stage Fight Night at Lally’s.” Article by unidentified writer. People Weekly, 14 November, 42–43. More comment on the Mailer-Vidal fight. See 77.4–77.8, 85.6, 91.3.
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78.2a

Untitled squib in People, 17 April, 34. Account of and Truman Capote at a Manhattan party celebrating a new novel by Dotson Rader, Miracle. Rader and a friend sang hymns between disco numbers. “Why not,” said Mailer. “After all, television mixes apples with astronauts.” Mailer also said he was writing a book about Gary Gilmore, the executed murderer. “It’s a new angle,” he said.
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78.3a

“Jackie Squares Off with Norman Mailer.” Palm Beach News, 10 October. Account of a magazine launch party in Manhattan attended by Jacqueline Onassis and . Asked if she was “The Bitch Goddess” mentioned in his essay, “Some Children of the Goddess” in Cannibals and Christians (66.11), he denied it, and went on to say that “the Bitch Goddess is a metaphor, which reminds me,” and then explained that the metaphoric muse of his creative imagination sometimes crowded him as a journalist, adding, “when I interviewed [presidential candidate] Jimmy Carter, my head was filled with so many things that I started talking and then discovered, to my horror, that I’d gone on for 20 minutes.” Carter “just kept smiling.”
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78.4

“Mailer’s Real-Life Escapades Outdo Fiction.” Article-interview by Tom Sullivan and Harold Banks. Boston Herald-American, 10 December, Sec. A, p. 3. Summary article on Mailer’s divorce from Beverly Bentley drawn from trial testimony and an interview. Mailer also discusses his forthcoming book, The Executioner’s Song (79.14): “It’s as long as Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and about a quarter as good. If it’s a quarter as good, it’s good enough.” See 78.5, 79.2, 79.3, 79.5, 79.8, 80.13.
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78.5

“The Many Marriages of Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Kay Longcope. Boston Globe, 11 December, 1, 16. Alternating comment on their failed marriage from Beverly Bentley and Mailer, who summed up: “If I am a prisoner of wedlock, I’m a recidivist. Some people are criminals, some are criminal conformists. I’m in the second category.” See 78.4, 79.2, 79.3, 79.5, 79.8, 80.13.
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78.7

Comments. In The Great American Newspaper: The Rise and Fall of the “Village Voice,” by Kevin Michael McAuliffe, passim. New York: Scribner’s. One of the most extensive treatments of Mailer’s association with the Village Voice. See 56.1–56.24, and Mailer’s 25 February 1974 letter to Harper Barnes in 14.3.
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79.1

“Norman Mailer: Gary Gilmore and Cornish Game Hens Are on His Mind These Days.” Article-interview by James Brady. Miami News, 16 January, Sec. B, p. 1. At a small dinner with his wife, Norris, John W. Aldridge and John Simon, Mailer spoke of his experience as a cook in the army and compared The Executioner’s Song (79.14) to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood: “Truman became emotionally involved. He took no notes. He claimed to have total recall. I took notes; I was not emotionally involved.” See 80.1, 80.10.
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79.10

“The Executioner’s Song.” Playboy, October, 96–100, 102, 110, 228–232, 237-38, 241–242, 244–246, 248–250, 252–254, 256–258, 260. Nonfiction narrative on Gary Gilmore. Illustrated by Marshall Arisman. Rpt: With many changes, as the first eight-and-a half chapters of The Executioner’s Song (79.14). First of three installments.
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79.11

“Talking with Mailer.” Interview by Paul A. Attanasio. Harvard Crimson (Fall Book Supplement), October, 1, 8, 22–23. Excellent interview on The Executioner’s Song (79.14); Mailer comments on the problem “of getting myself out of the book,” and the two halves of 79.14: “the real meaning is in the second half, which is not as well-ordered and not as amenable to a simple narrative line.”
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79.12

“PW Interviews: Norman Mailer.” Interview by Kenneth C. Davis. Publishers’ Weekly, 8 October, 8–9. Mailer discusses his collaboration with Lawrence Schiller on 79.14, and his view of Gary Gilmore as “another major American protagonist,” a man “malignant at his worst and heroic at his best.”
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79.13

“Norman Mailer Meets Middle Age and Wins with a Knockout Book.” Article-interview by Jan Herman. Show, Sunday Chicago Sun-Times, 14 October, 1, 14. More interview than article, Herman’s piece quotes Mailer at length on his ambitions, work schedule and the style employed in The Executioner’s Song (79.14): “This book was a reaction against my last books. I felt I was getting into filigree much too much. I’m not turning on the old style. It’s just that it’s a very dangerous style because you have to have an awful lot to say and you have to be centrally located.” Rpt: As “Up Off the Canvas, with a Troubled Look Ahead,” Philadelphia Inquirer, 25 October, Sec. D, pp. 1, 4.
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79.13a

“Mailer Says He Took Risk in Book about Gilmore.” AP wire story, 28 October. Mailer said he was on Gilmore’s side concerning his wish to be executed “because he wanted it so much. I’m a great believer in the right to die.” He said he thought the book (79.14) would be easier to write: “I felt like a dentist who starts putting in a filling and finds he has to redo the jaw.”
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79.13b

“Mailer Says Tenure in Prison Made Gary Gillmore [sic] Mediocre.” Article by Charlene Winters. Provo Herald, 28 October. Speaking before an audience at the Prove City Commission chambers, Mailer spoke of Gilmore, saying he “was afraid his soul would be destroyed with more prison and he would become a pathetic figure.”
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