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83.19

“The Bad Boy of Letters Grows Up: At 60, Norman Mailer Claims He Has Mellowed.” Article-interview by Blake Green. San Francisco Chronicle, 8 April. Report on Mailer’s reading from 83.18 in San Francisco at a program sponsored by City Arts and Lectures, Inc., and his later conversation with Michael McClure and others. He comments on the Abbott affair, Henry Miller, his reputation, and finances.
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83.2

“Mailer, at 60, Unveils Novel of Escapism.” Article-interview by Nicholas A. Basbanes. (Worcester) Evening Gazette, 2 February. The first of several reports on Mailer’s 28 January luncheon with out-of-town newspaper book editors at New York’s Lotos Club to discuss the forthcoming Ancient Evenings (83.18). Basbanes appears to have greatly truncated the conversations he reports. See 83.3–83.5, 83.7.
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83.20

“Mailer: ‘It’s Easier to Talk of Sex than Death.’” Article-interview by Eugene Kennedy. Chicago Tribune Bookworld, 10 April, Sec. 7, pp. 1, 7. Mailer is at ease with Kennedy, an old friend, and speaks reflectively about 83.18. “It may be,” he concludes, “that this book will be approachable to the degree that Americans are ready to contemplate and live with people profoundly oriented toward death.”
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83.21

“The Impish Iconoclast at 60.” Article-interview by Paul Gray and Janice C. Simpson. Time, 18 April, 82–84; cover photograph of Mailer (inset). Time has only rarely had a good word to say about Mailer; the string continues here in a long (for Time) piece centering on 83.18. Includes quotes from Mailer friends Buzz Farbar, José Torres, Scott Meredith and E.L. Doctorow, and from his comments at the University of Pennsylvania in March. Also includes Mailer’s warm appreciation of John Updike: “He has great wisdom as a writer.” Accompanied by Gray’s negative review of the novel. See 83.12, 83.14–83.16, 83.35.
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83.22

“Mailer Between Lives.” Article-interview by Curt Suplee. Washington Post Style, 20 April, Sec. B, pp. 1, 11. Report on a meeting in the offices of Little, Brown in New York at which Mailer talks at length about sex, magic, excrement, and the probable responses to 83.18. He reveals the title of the third novel in the planned trilogy: “Of Modern Times.” See 83.7, 83.30.
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83.23

“Mailer: New Book Gets Shock Reactions.” Article-interview by Sandy Hoefler. State Journal-Register (Springfield, Ill.), 23 April. Report on a press conference at Sangamon State University (now University of Illinois, Springfield). Mailer noted that Ancient Evenings (83.18) “received my best and worst reviews….It helps to have a firm ego in such a situation.”
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83.24

“Mellowing?. . . Not Mailer.” Article-interview by Marty Gervais. Windsor (Ontario) Star, 23 April, Sec. A, pp. 1, 16. Report of Mailer’s meeting with Canadian book editors in New York to discuss 83.18. Snide piece that repeats old stories, but does provide Mailer with the opportunity to explain that his contract with Little, Brown required him to submit installments of the novel, but forbade the editors from reading them, although Mailer did offer the opportunity to Larned G. Bradford, his chief editor.
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83.25

“A Novel Mailer: Calm and Happy.” Article-interview by Karen Heller. USA Today, 25 April. Mailer comments briefly on four previous books: The Naked and the Dead (48.2), Barbary Shore (51.1), The Deer Park (55.4), and The Executioner’s Song (79.14).
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83.26

“Outspoken in the ’60s, Mailer Mellows in His 60s.” Article-interview by Raymond G. Cushing. Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 25 April, Sec. C, pp. 1, 4. One more piece that attempts to contrast a young, fiery man with an older, mellow one. Cushing’s by-line says Los Angeles Times and this piece apparently appeared there first. Reflecting on his age, Mailer says that being “fifty caused a long, continuous woe. Fifty had an awful sound to it. Worse than sixty. Sixty feels all right. Forty felt great. Thirty felt lousy. Maybe I’ve just got something against odd numbers.”
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83.27

“Mailer on Mummy: Novels with No End.” Article-interview by William F. Ryan. Washington Tribune, 28 April, 3. A shorter version of 83.51, this piece contains Mailer’s reflections on the endings of different kinds of narrative, and that Ancient Evenings (83.18) would be on the New York Times bestseller list the next week.
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83.27a

“An Evening with Mailer.” Article-interview by Max Baker. (Springfield, IL) State Journal-Register Weekend Journal, 29 April, 10A-13A. Interviewed after giving a reading in Springfield, Mailer reflected on the Jack Abbott affair: “A young talented man lost his life. A talented man who had been in jail for 20 years went right back to jail and is now in fear of his life. Others lost respect for me, and I lost respect for myself. I thought, finally, that I have acted a little like a dilettante.”
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83.28

“Ancient Evenings.” Playboy, May, 100–102, 188, 190–192, 194–196, 199–202, 203. Excerpt from the novel of same title (83.18). Illustrated by Ivan Punchatz. Rpt: Appearing just after the novel, this excerpt deals with Menenhetet’s relationship with Nefertiri, and is taken from the second half of book 5, “The Book of Queens,” beginning at the end of chapter 9, skipping 10, and running through chapter 14, with many excisions and small changes. It is the second of two Playboy installments which together cover most of book 5.
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83.29

“Ancient Evenings.” Vogue, May, 278–279, 342. Excerpt from the novel of same title (83.18). Accompanied by 83.30 and 83.34. Rpt: Appearing just after the novel, this excerpt is taken without change from the chapter 1 of book 3, “The Book of the Child.”
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83.3

“Mailer Hits 60.” Article-interview by William Robertson. Miami Herald, 6 February, Sec. G, pp. 1–2. Longest report on the Lotos Club luncheon. Robertson quotes Mailer verbatim on his reasons for writing the novel (to explore the death customs of the Egyptians, and the immortality of the soul, and to write about a culture “before the Judeo-Christian begins”); and on why he hasn’t read Gore Vidal’s novel set in ancient times, Creation (“Gore is not the worst writer in the world….I don’t want to go off in directions that have nothing to do with what I’m doing”). See 83.2, 83.4, 83.5, 83.7.
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83.30

“Mailer and Mailer.” Article-interview by Cathleen Medwick. Vogue, May, 274, 277, 280, 343. Accompanied by 83.29 and 83.34. Description of the Mailers at home with a number of quotes from Norris Church Mailer on her life in Arkansas, and a few from Mailer on Ancient Evenings (83.18), and the writer’s life. He explains that the second and third novels in the trilogy begun by 83.18 will be titled, respectively, “The Boat of Ra” (set in the future on a space ship), and “Modern Times” (set in the contemporary era). See 83.22.
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83.31

“Mailer’s Flight to Ancient Egypt.” Article-interview by Bruce Weber. Harper’s Bazaar, May, 160–161, 96, 104. Mailer tells Weber that “the one virtue I lay claim to for this book83.18 is that I think I succeeded in creating a psychology that’s comprehensive and owes nothing to Freud.” He also discusses his 1969 mayoral campaign, possible feminist response to the novel, and his frustration in reading the biography of him by Hilary Mills (82.23). See 83.2, 83.50, 84.5.
==Note==
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83.32

“Norman Mailer: Love Him or Leave Him.” Article-interview by James Paul. San Francisco Review of Books, May–June. Negative review of 83.18 containing a few of Mailer’s remarks on 1 April at Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Accompanied by 83.33.
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83.33

“One Woman’s View.” Article by Lorilee Howard. San Francisco Review of Books, May–June. Howard compares Mailer’s boisterous presentation at the Herbst Theater on 1 April with the appearance of Joan Didion a few years earlier, and quotes him on several topics, including Jack Abbott, celebrity, and Gore Vidal.
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83.34

“Style Is Character: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Cathleen Medwick. Vogue, May, 279, 343. Accompanied by 83.29 and 83.30. Discussion of style, especially as related to 83.18. Mailer says he has seven styles in the novel because it is comprised of seven books, “built on the notion that the Egyptians had of the soul. They believed that when you died, you died with seven spirits, pieces of the soul, and they all went to different places.”
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83.35

“The Surreal Professor.” Article-interview by Marshall Ledger. Pennsylvania Gazette (Alumni Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania) , 87 (May), 14–22; cover photograph of Mailer. The longest report on Mailer’s week-long stint as the University of Pennsylvania’s first Pappas Fellow. Extended comments on the Abbott affair, his relationship to America, “The White Negro” (57.1), nuclear war, feminism, homosexuality, James T. Farrell, Ancient Evenings (83.18), and the writing life. Important article. Rpt: By the University of Pennsylvania in a booklet (hard and softcover) titled Pappas Fellows: Norman Mailer, with prefatory statements by T. Peter Pappas and President Sheldon Hackney, and Hackney’s introduction of Mailer. See 83.12, 83.14–83.16, 83.21.
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83.36

“Norman Mailer on ‘Ancient Evenings’ in Egypt.” Article-interview by John Barkham. Federal Times, 2 May, 23. Brief interview in which Mailer says that he “hoped to attain a Proustian touch here and there” in 83.18.
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83.38

“Something Has Been Stolen from Us That We Can’t Name.” Interview by Alvin P. Sanoff. U.S. News and World Report, 23 May, 73. Sanoff’s questions have been cut from this conversation, a classic Mailer fulmination against plastic, television, frozen food, drugs and “the culture of interruption.”
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83.39

“Norman’s Conquests.” Article-interview by Julia Braun Kessler. (Van Nuys, Cal.) Daily News Magazine, 29 May, 25–27. Significant interview for three reasons:
# “Mailer’s Law of Architectural Sequence on the American Campus”: “the newer the building, the less attractive”;
# “I have supposed that if there were one great Egyptian novelist, this is his novel. I was even tempted at one point to call it ‘The Egyptian Novel’ ”;
# on karma: “When you think of the incredible elaborations that go into any one human being, it does seem wasteful of the cosmos to send us out just once to learn all those things, and then to molder forever in the weeds.”
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83.4

“New Perspectives on [Stanley] Elkin and Mailer.” Article-interview by Clarence E. Olson. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 6 February. Briefest report on the Lotos Club luncheon. Mailer tells Olson that “on a good day he produces 1,000 words, in longhand.” See 83.2, 83.3, 83.5, 83.7.
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83.40

“Unbloodied by the Critical Pounding, Norman Mailer Defends the Egyptian Novel That Took a Decade to Write.” Interview by George Plimpton. People Weekly, 30 May, 53–54, 59–60. Brief, penetrating interview in which Mailer discusses his research for 83.18, his fondness for describing odors, and his difficulties with plot. Rpt: 88.6.
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83.41

“Behind the Lines.” Article-interview by Julie Rubenstein and Greg Tobin. Literary Guild Magazine, June, 5. Brief piece with a few scattered quotes on Ancient Evenings (83.18): “The book feels much closer to me than The Executioner’s Song (79.14), because finally it came out of my imagination, and I had to search for it all these years.”
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83.42

“Mailer Takes on the Pharaohs,” Article-interview by Melvyn Bragg. (London) Sunday Times Magazine, 5 June, 18–19. Mailer tells Bragg about his motive and research for 83.18, including his belief in reincarnation: “For years I had been working on the theme that the only way to understand human behaviour was to see that it was not just working for one invested organisation—the present self.” Accompanied by an excerpt from the novel, the embalming sequence, chapters 5, 6 and the beginning of 7 from book 1, “The Book of One Man Dead,” encompassing the first excerpt published in the Paris Review (82.24).
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83.43

“Macho Mailer Faces Up to Posterity’s View.” Article-interview by Adrianne Blue. (London) Times, 10 June, 12. Brief piece, published during Mailer’s promotional tour in England for Ancient Evenings (83.18), with Mailer’s comments on his public persona. Mailer says, “More and more I find myself attuned to writers like Dostoyevsky, Stendhal, D.H. Lawrence—and I’m not comparing myself to them—who want to break up the ball game, explore new territory.”
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83.45

“God and Man and Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Eugene Kennedy. Notre Dame Magazine, 12 (July), 19–20. One of Mailer’s most incisive explanations of his spiritual beliefs relayed and framed sympathetically by Kennedy, a former Catholic priest and good friend. For more on Mailer’s theology, see 59.2, 75.2, 75.11, 82.15, 89.11, and his final book, On God: An Uncommon Conversation (07.38).
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83.46

“Making Ends Meet: James Campbell Meets Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by James Campbell. Literary Review, July, 28–31. On the English tour for 83.18, Mailer breakfasts with Campbell and discusses his new novel, irony in literature, the respective merits of journalism and the novel, and some of his contemporaries: James Baldwin, Saul Bellow and James Jones. He notes that his “toughest” journalistic assignment was his piece for Life (71.14) on the first Ali-Frazier fight. He had 32 hours to write 9,500 words.
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83.46a

“Mailer and Random House Sign a $4 Million Contract.” Article-interview by Edwin McDowell, New York Times, 2 August. Explains the details of his new contract with Random House, which remained in force until his death. Mailer: “I have had a long relationship with Little, Brown, and for the most part an agreeable one.”
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83.46b

“Little, Brown Loses Mailer to Random House.” Article-interview by Robert Taylor. Boston Globe, 3 August, 57, 62. Scott Meredith explains why Mailer is leaving Little, Brown, and that his next book may be a novel titled, The Castle in the Forest. “It’s about an American army outfit coming upon a castle the Germans had been using as a concentration camp in World War II. The leading characters are an American Jewish doctor and a German doctor who confront each other and clash over contending philosophies.” This novel was begun by Mailer in the early 1950s, and abandoned; later he used the title for his final novel (07.10) about Hitler, retaining the confrontation, slightly altered, as the epilogue.
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83.47

“Norman Mailer: A Man, an Artist, a Cultural Phenomenon.” Article-interview by Rick Soll. Living, Chicago Sun-Times, 7 August, 1, 6–7, 12; cover photograph of Mailer and Norris Church Mailer. In Chicago to promote Ancient Evenings (83.18), Mailer talks at length about the struggle to write the novel, and his image problems: “I never say exactly what I think—it’s my style to circle around an issue,” which causes problems for journalists, who “edit out the context.” He also reveals that he and his wife, Norris Church, “were born within one minute of each other, 26 years apart.” “Norris,” he says, “has changed me enormously.”
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83.48

“Norman Mailer Moves to Random House.” Article by unidentified writer. Publishers’ Weekly, 12 August, 17. Mailer is quoted once in this brief article: “I have had a long relationship with Little, Brown, and for the most part an agreeable one.” Also quoted are Scott Meredith, Mailer’s agent, and his new editor, Jason Epstein, who reports that Mailer’s first book for Random House will be “a major contemporary novel,” perhaps the first mention of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17).
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83.49

St. George and the Godfather. Introduction by John Leonard. New York: Arbor House, September; simultaneously as a softcover. Nonfiction narrative on the 1972 political conventions, 229 pp., $14.95. First hardcover version of the earlier softcover (72.17).
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83.5

“Norman Mailer: 60 and Still Challenging for the Championship.” Article-interview by Robert Taylor. Boston Globe, 6 February, Sec. B, pp. 10–11. Another perspective on the discussion of Ancient Evenings (83.18) at the Lotos Club. Taylor is the only one of the editors present to quote Mailer’s comment on William Faulkner: “I’m as good a hardworking pro as anyone around. When I work I don’t like to know where I’m going. After I get there, out on the rockface, I look back at how far I’ve come—and then I look up and see Mt. Faulkner towering above me.” See 83.2–83.4, 83.7.
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83.50

“Modern Evenings: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Michael Schumacher. Writer’s Digest, October, 30–34. The chief theme of this thoughtful interview is risk: the risk of being a working writer, the risk of reviews, of changing styles, fame, the tides of luck. Mailer says, “I’m almost more comfortable with a tough tide. I get nervous when I’m on a good tide, because I figure prosperity is something I’ve never steered too well.” He also comments on Hilary Mills’s biography (82.23), saying, “I think she stuck to every story at face value. None of them are adjusted or weighed.” See 83.32, 84.5.
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83.51

“Norman Mailer’s Ancient Magic: Machismo, Elegance and Dogs That Don’t Watch TV.” Article-interview by William F. Ryan. Virginia Country, October, 34–39, 88. A longer version of 83.27, this is perhaps Mailer’s most exhaustive conversation on Ancient Evenings (83.18), with long discussions of magic, technology, telepathy, reincarnation and erotic literature.
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83.52

“The Poor American in London: The British Elections as Seen through the Trained Eye of an Innocent Abroad.” Esquire, October, 49–50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60, 62. Essay. Rpt: Divided into three parts, “The Left,” “The Right,” “The Outcome,” Mailer’s essay first appeared in three installments (29 May, 5 June, 12 June) in the English newspaper, Mail on Sunday.
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83.54

“Jackie, the Prisoner of Celebrity.” Esquire, “Golden Anniversary Collector’s Issue: 50 Who Made a Difference.” December, 185–189. Portrait of Jacqueline Kennedy. Rpt: The entire issue was republished with a preface by Lee Eisenberg and a foreword by Phillip Moffitt: New York: Villard Books, 1984. See 62.12.
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83.55

“A Tamer Mailer Finds a Cause.” Article-interview by Barbara Sullivan. Chicago Tribune, 5 December, Sec. 2, p. 8. In Chicago to speak at a fundraiser for cat agencies at the request of his friend Irma Robinson, Mailer talked about cats and other matters at a pre-fundraiser luncheon. He tells the reporter that his first murder mystery (84.17) will be published in 1984. See 83.56.
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83.56

“Cat Lovers.” Article-interview by Marcia Froelke Coburn. (Chicago) Reader, 16 December, 46–47. Reports on Mailer’s talk at a Chicago fundraiser for cats. Mailer tells the story of two cats he knew in Paris in 1947–1948. See 83.55.
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83.57

“Dwight Macdonald: 1906-1982.” Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 2nd ser. (no. 34), 89–91. Portrait. Read at an Institute dinner meeting, 3 November. Rpt: As Preface to a new, posthumous, edition of Macdonald’s collection, Discriminations: Essays and Afterthoughts. New York: Da Capo, 1985. See 60.8.
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83.58

Foreword to Oswald’s Game, by Jean Davison, 7–10. New York: W. W. Norton. Written when Mailer had greater faith in the various conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination, and thus worth comparing with Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (95.16). Mailer discusses the coincidences of his life, including the fact that he worked in the same studio building in Brooklyn as Russian spymaster, Col. Rudolph Abel: “The net of conspiracy is always more or less finely woven than what we do perceive of it.”
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83.59

Statement for class record. Harvard College, Class of 1943: Fortieth Anniversary Report, 120–121. Cambridge: Harvard University. In his 95-word statement, Mailer notes his marriage to Norris Church, the births of his son John Buffalo and his granddaughter Valentina, the publication of The Executioner’s Song (79.14) and finishing Ancient Evenings (83.18). See 49.4, 53.5, 58.6.
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