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73.36

“The Masquerader in a Male Chauvinist Wig.” Article-interview by Joyce Haber. Los Angeles Times Calendar, 2 September, 11, 59. Essentially a long review of Marilyn (73.30), this piece includes a few quotes from Mailer, including his comment that the first draft was 105,000 words in length.
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73.39

“Mailer and the Siege of Chicago.” Article-interview by Clifford Terry. Chicago Tribune Magazine, 30 September, 32, 34, 37, 39–41, 42. One of the best reports of Mailer-on-the-book-tour, including Mailer’s interaction with Irv Kupcinet, Bob Cromie, Lee Phillip and other Chicago journalists. Focus is on 73.30. See 73.42.
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73.4

“Mailer Clarifies His ‘Fifth Estate.’” Article by unidentified writer. New York Times, 7 February, 45. On 6 February, the day after he had proposed “The Fifth Estate,” Mailer called a news conference to say that he regretted calling his proposed organization “a people’s police.” He went on to compare “The Fifth Estate” with the American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause and Nader’s Raiders. He said it would be a “kind of ombudsman” that would perform “objective, scholarly work,” and he would like to have “an umbilical relationship” to it. See 73.2, 73.3, 73.6–73.8, 73.10, 73.11, 73.18.
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73.40

“Mailer on Marriage and Women.” Interview by Buzz Farbar. Viva, October, 74–76, 144, 146, 148, 150, 152. Mailer’s lengthiest interview on women, sex and marriage, with comment on his review of Last Tango in Paris (73.12) and 73.30. Mailer comments on this interview in 75.1. Rpt: As “Marriage” in 82.16 (partial). See 81.23, 90.3.
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73.41

“Norman Mailer: Narcissus and an Untold Joke.” Article by Judy Flander. Washington Star-News, 2 October, Sec. C, p. 3. Report of Mailer’s appearance before the Woman’s National Democratic Club in Washington, where he commented on 73.30, his 50th birthday party, and the profession of journalism. See other 1973 entries.
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73.42

“ ‘Marilyn Would Have Eaten Me Alive.’ ” Article by Jane Shapiro. Village Voice, 11 October, 87–88. Report on Mailer’s appearance on Bob Cromie’s television show, “Book Beat,” where he discusses Marilyn Monroe and his biography (73.30) of her: “You know, you always live on the edge of mystery when you’re dealing with a beautiful woman.” See 73.39.
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73.42a

“Norman Mailer Takes the Stand.” Article-interview by Dave Rothman. Lorain New-Journal (Ohio), 26 October, 1. Speaking at Berea College in Kentucky, Mailer answered questions about the Marilyn plagiarism dispute, and his appearance on 60 Minutes with Mike Wallace.
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73.43

Untitled interview. By William Baises, Robert Harvey, Robert Merrill, Henry Nuwer and William Wilborn. Brushfire (University of Nevada at Reno) 23 (no. 1), November or December, 7–20. Wide-ranging interview with faculty and students of the Department of English conducted after his 4 October reading at the University. Mailer comments on several of his books, the writers of the 1930s, John Updike, Stephen Crane, and James Agee, whom Mailer knew slightly.
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73.43a

“Chasing the Great White Whale; Interview: Norman Mailer, Part I.” By Frank Crowther. Changes, no. 85, December, 1, 42. Crowther, whom Mailer later eulogized (see 76.10), was one of the organizers of Mailer’s 50th birthday party (see 73.18), discusses Heidegger, dread, the occult and odors in this important interview this New York-based cultural tabloid. See 74.3.
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73.44

“Norman Mailer at the Tufts Gym.” Article by Martin F. Kohn. Providence Sunday Journal Leisure Weekly, 2 December, Sec. H, p. 23. Report of Mailer’s appearance at Tufts University where he spoke on journalism and the novel: “It is my profoundest idea, at least my profoundest idea tonight, that if we cannot perceive an idea for ourselves, we should know the observer through whom we perceive it secondhand.” See 81.2.
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73.45

Advertisement for Marilyn: A Biography. New York Times, 9 December, 13-15. Mailer composed this advertisement, which consists of both positive and negative quotes from reviews of 73.30 (similar to 55.5), a response to Mike Wallace’s editing of his interview with Mailer on 60 Minutes, and publication figures: 400,000 copies in print. See earlier 1973 entries, 74.12, 77.7.
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73.46

“Norman Mailer Talks to Melvyn Bragg about the Bizarre Business of Writing a Hypothetical Life of Marilyn Monroe.” Interview. Listener, 20 December, 847–850. Transcript of a Second House (BBC 2) television interview. Conducted during his British promotional tour for the book, this is Mailer’s longest and best interview on 73.30. Rpt: 88.6. See other 1973 entries.
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73.47

“A Mystery,” chapter 11 of The Martian Invasion. In As They Were, edited by Tuli Kupferberg and Sylvia Topp, no pagination. New York: Links, softcover. One page, one chapter, excerpt from space adventure written by Mailer at age 10, or perhaps earlier. Volume consists of childhood photos of famous people and some juvenilia. Rpt: First Glance: Childhood Creations of the Famous, edited by Tuli Kupferberg and Sylvia Topp. New York: Hammond, 1978.
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73.5

“Norman Mailer Turns 50: The Rise and Fall of the ‘Fifth Estate.’” Article by Sally Quinn. Washington Post, 7 February, Sec. B (“Style”), pp. 1, 7. An unfriendly report on Mailer’s birthday party and his 6 February news conference. See 73.2–73.4, 73.6–73.8, 73.10, 73.11, 73.18.
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73.6

“Mailer’s Birthday: ‘People’s CIA? Article by Lucian K. Truscott IV. Village Voice, 8 February, 1, 24–25. Contains the most complete account of Mailer’s comments at his 50th birthday party, including his opening dirty joke. See 73.2–73.5, 73.7, 73.8, 73.10, 73.11, 73.18.
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73.7

“A Half Century of Mailer.” Article by Linda Francke. Newsweek, 19 February, 78. Later report on Mailer’s 50th birthday party. See 73.2–73.6, 73.8, 73.10, 73.11, 73.18.
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73.8a

“Mailer’s ‘Maidstone’: Where’s the Reality?” Transcript of a conversation Mailer had with an audience at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall of 1972, with an introduction to the printed version by Penny Cousineau. Afterimage, March, 7–9. Mailer lays out his film aesthetic, and also notes that he had not realized until he read the reviews that “people who were bored with me to start with were in pain after an hour of watching me on the screen,” because, as Andrew Sarris noted, Mailer is not a matinee idol.
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73.9

“Writer as Something Else.” Article by Wilfred Sheed. New York Times Book Review, 4 March, 2. Six writers—Mailer, Philip Roth, Jean Stafford, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut and Murray Kempton—respond to Sheed’s inquiry as to their profession had they not chosen writing. Mailer says he can’t think of what he might have been except “a lazy lover with women working for me.” Rpt: In Sheed’s The Good Word and Other Words. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978.
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74.1

“The Rich, Famous, Talented and Powerful Resolve….” Article-interview by Deirdre Carmody. New York Times, 1 January, Sec. C, p. 21. A number of notables, including Mailer, Senator Sam J. Ervin Jr., David Rockefeller, Ralph Nader, Julia Child, Alice Roosevelt Longworth and a dozen others, were asked to give their objectives for the coming year. Mailer’s full reply: “To work on a novel….Just those five words, to work on a novel.”
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74.10

“Is He Writing the Big One?” Article-interview by Roger Ebert. Journal-Star (Peoria), 18 May, Sec. C, p. 10. Chicago Daily News-Sun Times wire story. Ebert discusses Mailer’s plans for a long new novel (Ancient Evenings, 83.18), and quotes Mailer on journalism and deadlines. Mailer is not quoted in an earlier article, “Mailer Getting $1-Million for Rights to Next Novel” by Eric Pace (New York Times, 21 February, Sec. C, p. 24), but both his agent, Scott Meredith, and his Little, Brown editor, Larned G. Bradford, are quoted. Unnamed sources are also quoted and provide the erroneous information that the novel will trace “a family from ancient history to future history” and end aboard a spaceship. Mailer corrected this story several times before 83.18 was published.
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74.11

“The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comments.” New Yorker, 20 May, 29–34. Symposium contribution. Thirty-four individuals comment on the tape recordings made by President Nixon, including Mailer, William Scranton, Joseph A. Califano, Arthur Schleslinger Jr., William Westmoreland, George Reedy and John Kenneth Galbraith. Mailer’s comment is the longest. He calls Nixon “the stubbornest man in America,” a man “obliged to drink the cup of his own excretions.” Rpt: 98.7. See 74.13.
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74.12

“Mailer: I’m Sorry about the ‘Marilyn’ Book.” Article-interview by Sandra Pesman. Chicago Daily News, 21 May, 13. Report on a Chicago press conference promoting 74.9, at which Mailer also answered questions about Marilyn: A Biography (73.30), and lamented that he had “jumped into the ending without enough research.” See 1973 entries.
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74.13

“Expletive Restored.” Village Voice, 13 June, 4. With great bravura, Mailer imagines what the unedited transcripts of the frank talk of three presidents—Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman—would sound like. See 74.11.
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74.14

Preface to The Joker, by Jean Malaquais, 11–24. New York: Warner, September, softcover. Malaquais’s novel, originally published in the U.S. in 1954 by Doubleday, was reissued with Mailer’s preface as part of Warner’s “Rediscovery Series.” Malaquais, one of Mailer’s closest friends and his mentor in the 40s and 50s, translated The Naked and the Dead (48.2) into French, and is the dedicatee of Barbary Shore (51.1). Rpt: 75.5; without the third of its three parts as “My Friend, Jean Malaquais” in Pieces and Pontifications (82.16); complete in Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction, edited by David Madden and Peggy Bach. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1988.
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74.18

“Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Selden Rodman. In Tongues of Fallen Angels, by Selden Rodman, 162–181. New York: New Directions. Rodman links a few conversations with Mailer from 1948 to 1971 together with his insights and impressions. Other writers interviewed include Jorge Borges, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García-Márquez, Allen Ginsberg, Octavio Paz and Derek Walcott. Rodman included an excerpt from The Naked and the Dead (48.2), the storm sequence (part 2, chapter 4), in One Hundred Modern Poems (New York: New American Library, 1951).
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74.19

“Norman Mailer: ‘The Time of Her Time.’ ” In Writer’s Choice: Each of Twenty American Authors Introduces His Own Best Story, edited by Rust Hills, 251–277. New York: David McKay. In a 271-word preface to the story, Mailer says that his “credentials as a writer of short stories are, say the word, compact,” and therefore choosing “The Time of Her Time” was not hard. He goes on to say that Walter Minton of G.P. Putnam’s confided in him that publishing the story in 59.13 made Minton realize that Lolita could be published in the U.S. Rpt: Mailer shortens this preface when he reprints it and the story in The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 61.15, 67.11, 68.32.
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74.2

“Some Notables Name Their Bests.” Questionnaire by unidentified writer. New York Times, 6 January, Sec. II, p. 9. Mailer and 14 others, including Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Crawford, Billie Jean King, Beverly Sills and Wilt Chamberlain, name their favorite movies of 1973. Mailer’s choices: “Spider’s Strategem,” “The Conformist,” “Last Tango in Paris” (see 73.12), “Cries and Whispers,” “Save the Tiger,” “Paper Moon,” “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean,” “The Heartbreak Kid,” “The Way We Were,” “The Devil in Miss Jones,” “Hex.”
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74.20

Letter to John Hohenberg (28 December 1972). In The Pulitzer Prizes: A History of the Awards in Books, Drama, Music, and Journalism, Based on the Private Files over Six Decades, by John Hohenberg, 202, 339. New York: Columbia University Press. Mailer comments on why The Naked and the Dead (48.2) did not receive the Pulitzer Prize: “I had come out all ten thumbs and ten big toes for Henry Wallace, and for all I know may have been considered a fellow-traveler or a Communist dupe.” Mailer also comments on the effect the Pulitzer he received for The Armies of the Night (68.8) had on his campaign for mayor of New York.
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74.3

“Frank Crowther: Norman Mailer, Part II.” Interview by Frank Crowther. Changes, no. 86 (mid-January), 25–26. In this interview conducted in fall 1971, Mailer responds to quotations served up by Crowther from E.B. White, Konrad Lorenz, Georges Simenon, William Burroughs, Alberto Giacometti and two Nobel laureates in science, Sir John Eccles and Peyton Rous. See 73.43a.
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74.4

“A Section of an Interview between Norman Mailer and David Young.” Scholastic: Notre Dame Review (special issue), 1 March, 5–9. Consists of half of a long, important interview on art, science, magic, religion and technology conducted in 1970. The other half appeared in 74.5.
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74.6

“Mailer Headlines Counter-Spy Pitch.” Article by Louise Lague. Washington Star-News, 25 March, Sec. D, pp. 1 and one additional page. Report on a reception to celebrate the merger of the organization Mailer launched at his 50th birthday party, “The Fifth Estate” (see 73.10), and CAR-IC, the Committee for Action/Research on the Intelligence Community, into one organization, which would in turn publish Counter-Spy magazine (see 75.4). Mailer said he wanted “to be remembered as old Uncle Norman who had something to do with it.” See also 73.2, 75.6 and “Follow-Up on the News,” New York Times, 17 March, 33.
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74.7

Excerpts from acceptance speech. The MacDowell Colony: Report for 1973. Mrs. David F. Putnam, Secretary. Published after the 23 January annual meeting, in April or May. A report on the awarding of the Edward MacDowell Medal to Mailer on 19 August 1973 is given on pp. 12–13, including excerpts from Mailer’s acceptance speech: “…So the novelist…is out there…to deal with life as something that God did not give us as eternal and immutable, but rather gave us [as] something half-worked.” Rpt: Mailer gives a slightly longer and somewhat different excerpt from the speech in the preface to Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960-1972 (76.5). A 120-word excerpt from Mailer’s speech and the bulk of John Leonard’s introduction are reprinted in Medal Day at the Colony, a 1994 booklet published by the Colony. A quarter of a century later, Mailer again drew on his speech for the foreword to The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 73.35.
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74.8

“The Faith of Graffiti.” Esquire, May, 77–79, 88, 154, 157–58. Essay on New York City’s graffiti artists. Rpt: In an expanded form in 74.9.
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74.9

Simultaneously as a softcover; London: Mathews, Miller Dunbar, with a different title: Watching My Name Go By. No dedication. Rpt: in a shorter form, as 74.8; complete in 82.16, 98.7, 09.8. See 74.12.
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75.1

“The Rolling Stone Interview, Part I: Aquarius Hustling.” By Richard Stratton. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Rolling Stone, 2 January, 41–47, 71. Extended discussion of Marilyn: A Biography (73.30), which includes the full text of Mailer’s press release on Monroe’s death (see 73.33, 75.3), followed by comment on Truman Capote and Charles Manson. Mailer refers to an earlier interview with Buzz Farbar (73.40) at the beginning of the interview. Rpt: As the first part of “In Search of the Devil” in 82.16 (partial). See 75.2.
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75.10

“The Meaning of Vietnam.” New York Review of Books, 12 June, 23-33. Fifteen individuals “were asked to consider the questions of the responsibility for the war; its effects on American life, politics, and culture, and the U.S. position in the world; and the prospects of recovery from it—or any other questions they felt to be important.” Besides Mailer, the contributors include Noam Chomsky, Elizabeth Hardwick, Christopher Lasch, Robert Lowell, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag and Gore Vidal.
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75.11

“Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Laura Adams. Partisan Review 42 (summer), 197-214. Omnibus interview notable for Mailer’s comments on karma and the role of James Jones in convincing him of its justice. Rpt: Partial in 82.16, 98.7; complete in 88.6. See 59.2, 75.2, 82.15, 83.45, 89.11.
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75.12

====The Fight. Boston: Little, Brown, 21 July; London: Hart-Davis, 1976. Nonfiction narrative on the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman 30 October 1974 boxing match in Zaire, 239 pp., $7.95.====
No dedication. Rpt: An earlier, shorter version of the narrative appeared in two parts in Playboy (75.8, 75.9). Mailer includes excerpts from eight chapters in The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 64.18, 67.12, 71.15, 71.26, 75.13, 77.13.
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75.13

“Norman Mailer: I’m Like a Minor Champ.” Interview by Stan Isaacs. LI: Newsday’s Magazine, 21 September, 10–13, 22–26. Mailer’s longest interview on boxing, with additional comment on his books, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, J.F.K., President Harry S. Truman and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. See 75.12, 77.13.
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75.14

Preface to Fiction Writer’s Handbook, by Hallie and Whit Burnett, xvii–xxi. New York: Harper and Row, prior to 9 November. Copy examined has date stamped “November 9 1975.” Mailer discusses the beginning of his writing career at Harvard under Theodore Morrison, Mark Schorer, Albert Guerard, Robert Gorham Davis and Murray Kempton. Mailer later explained that this Kempton was “not our Murray.” See 41.1, 77.2, 83.10.
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75.15

“Before He’s Naked or Dead, Norman Mailer Goes for Broke: The Biggest Novel of All.” Article-interview by Mark Goodman. People Weekly, 10 November, 47–50. Profile with a few comments on The Fight (75.12) and his work-in-progress, Ancient Evenings (83.18). See 75.16.
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75.2

“The Rolling Stone Interview, Part II: Sympathy for the Devil.” By Richard Stratton. Photographs by Annie Leibovitz. Rolling Stone, 16 January, 42–43, 45–47, 54, 56–57. Contains Mailer’s longest interview discussion of God and the Devil since 59.2 (see 75.11, 82.15, 83.45, 89.11), and comment on a variety of other topics: Women’s Liberation, Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon, his novel-in-progress (Ancient Evenings, 83.18), the Rolling Stones and rock and roll, Patti Hearst, LSD, Ulysses S. Grant and literary deadlines: “Literature is not a temple. Literature is an act. If you’re a working literary man, it’s obviously analogous to a sexual act. You’re better on some days than on others.” Rpt: As the second part of “In Search of the Devil” in 82.16 (partial). See 75.1.
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75.3

“The Murder File.” In Marilyn: A Biography. New York: Warner, March, softcover, 340–351, $2.50. Consists of Mailer’s 18 July 1973 press release on Monroe’s sudden death (see 73.19, 73.33, 75.1) with new prefatory and concluding comments, as the final chapter of this reprint edition of 73.30.
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75.4

“The CIA vs. Democracy.” Counter-Spy 2 (spring/summer), 40. Essay. Dated 24 January, Mailer’s contribution to the magazine he helped found focuses on the sins of the CIA and the role of “The Fifth Estate” as “homeopathic medicine—one small drop for a large disease.” See 73.2, 73.10, 74.6, 75.6.
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75.6

“CIA, FBI ‘Threaten Nation.’” Article by unidentified writer. Kansas City Times, 22 April. Report of Mailer’s 21 April speech at Wichita State University on the need to create intelligence agencies to counter the CIA and FBI. “What we are speaking about here,” he said, “is an invisible government that has powers that are huge, undefined and uncertain even to themselves.” See 73.2, 73.10, 74.6, 75.4.
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75.7

“Norman Mailer: Humor Saves Day for the Man of La Mancha.” Article-interview by Bill Bryan. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 23 April, Sec. C, p. 11. Report on Mailer’s appearance at St. Louis University, where he presented a lecture, “From Poetry to Espionage.”
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