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03.23

“Edge Profile: Norman Mailer.” Profile-interview by J. Rentily. Razor magazine, June, 54–55. speaks of his desire to continue writing: “There are so many books to write. So many books to write. I know my body is old. But my brain is not too old, maybe 50.” As for his legacy: “I’ll last or I won’t last. It’s the one thing you can’t really predict, because history takes turns. There are certain writers who are so great you can never throw them off. I’m not in that category. I may last or I may not last.”
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03.24

“Our Town.” Interview by Joseph P. Kahn. Boston Globe Magazine “Special Issue, New Perspective on Cape Cod,” 22 June, 19. Along with Michael Lee, Robert Pinsky, Mary Higgins Clark, Susan Baker, Joel Meyerowitz and a half-dozen others, talks about the Cape. “All through the war,” he said, “I dreamed of coming back [to Provincetown]. Then to come here, my lord, it had the feel of 1790.”
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03.25

“A ‘Long Day’s Journey’ with the Mailers.” Brief article by Jesse Green. New York Times, 10 August, 5. Report on the staged reading of Eugene O’Neill’s play, Long Day’s Journey into Night in Provincetown to benefit the local repertory theater. Three of his children joined and his wife Norris in the reading. Mailer said, “I expect us to be considerably better as a theatrical ensemble than as a basketball team.”
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03.26

“Norman Mailer Gets Moral.” Interview by Tim McCarthy. Life in Provincetown magazine, 14 August, 10–11, 14, 22. ’s comments are evenly divided between his warm memories of Provincetown, where he wrote parts of all but five or six of his books, and his theological views: “We were created in God’s image, because we are the infantry of God’s vision.”
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03.28

“A Riff on Hemingway.” Paris Review, no. 167 (fall 2003), 267–270. Fiftieth Anniversary Number. Poems (with editor’s title). First published in Modest Gifts: Poems and Drawings (03.17), where they were slightly different. It is possible, even likely, that they were submitted to Paris Review before Modest Gifts was published.
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03.3

“Norman’s Still in a Conquering Mood at 80.” (London) Independent, 24 January. Contains some brief quotes from as he nears 80. Asked why he does a crossword puzzle and plays solitaire every morning, he said, “You have to understand, this is how I comb my brain each morning.”
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03.4

“You’re in the Lap of History.” Interview by Malcolm Jones. Newsweek, 27 January 2003, 62–64, 66. The focus is on ’s new book, The Spooky Art (03.7). Mailer also talks about his health; the new (secret) novel he has completed 200 pages of (The Castle in the Forest07.10); the Iraq War, Provincetown (“Nobody gives a damn what you do. Or what you did. Nobody’s that taken with your importance”); and how his past is used “like a stick to poke at an old lion between the bars.” He says of the assault on his second wife, Adele:
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03.5

“Norman Mailer, 80, Celebrates Survival, Worries about Writing.” Article-interview by Hillel Italie. AP wire story, 29 January. talks frankly about his various impairments, and how he sees aging “as analogous to being an old freighter and to sail through heavy seas you have to through some things overboard. You give up certain senses. In my case, I wanted to keep my mind reasonably alive.”
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03.6

“Getting Spooky About Writing with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Michael Lee. Cape Cod Voice, 30 January, 1–2. talks mainly about the writing process, best sellers, writing courses, and the perils of the literary world in this fine interview with an old friend, who is also a novelist. “I don’t think I’ve ever started a new novel without wondering if it was all gone. Before I started The Naked and the Dead I was convinced I was through as a writer, that my best writing was behind me, and that’s repeated in every book.”
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03.7

Dedication: “To J. Michael Lennon.”
Contains excerpts from approximately 190 previously published items by , plus 50 new items written expressly for this book. The great majority of the questions from interviewers were incorporated by Mailer into his replies. 
==Bibliography==
===Reviews===
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03.8

“Stormin’ Norman Turns 80.” Article by unidentified writer. Agence-France-Presses wire story. 31 January. Brief story about reading at a New York bookstore on January 28. Mailer snapped at a questioner that he thought had turned away, asking if he was boring the person. Told he was looking at the wrong individual, he said, “My hearing is not much better than my eyesight.”
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03.9

“The Author as Celebrity.” Article-interview by Dan Cryer. 3 February, Newsday.com (subscription required). talks at some length about the matter of literary celebrity: “You develop a perverse appetite for it, even though you hate it. I can’t pretend to be pure that way.” He continued: “It may be that a part of me had to show off in order to get out some serious work. The truth is, we are very often at cross-purposes with ourselves.” Of his contemporaries, he says: “I was dead wrong on Updike. I was dead wrong on Roth. I was pretty mean on them, and they’ve been doing excellent work for years.”
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04.1

[Comment of the passing of George Plimpton]. Harvard Advocate 140, no. 2 (winter), 13. Memorial number. , who acted in “Zelda, Scott and Ernest” (see 01.3) with his wife, Norris, and Plimpton more than a dozen times, lauds Plimpton as “the best gentleman most of us ever got to know.” Rpt: 13.1.
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04.10

“Hemingway Challenge: 25 of Today’s Most Influential Writers Offer Original Fiction in 6 Words, No More, No Less.” Black Book, fall, 132–133. ’s story: “Satan—Jehovah, fifteen rounds. A Draw.” The challenge is based on a 6-word piece by Hemingway: “For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Used.”
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04.11

“Norman Mailer: Poetic Lion in Winter.” Article by Gary Shapiro. New York Sun, 23 September. An account of ’s reading of his poems, followed by a conversation with J. Michael Lennon, at the 92nd Street Y in mid-September. Mailer said, “When it comes to poetry, I felt like a high school athlete. I wrote my poems and there was no coach out there with a gleam in his eye.” He added that a poem he submitted to Poetry had been rejected, but the rejection letter was “nicely written.”
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04.12

“Norman Mailer: On Pot.” An Interview by Richard Stratton. High Times, November-December, 42–44, 88–89. Important interview with an old, close friend who served a prison term for marijuana smuggling, and was at the time of the interview the editor-in-chief of this magazine. It is ’s most extensive interview on his ideas about and experience with marijuana.
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04.13

“The Election and America’s Future.” New York Review of Books, 4 November, 6–17. is one of 14 individuals, including Russell Baker, Anthony Lewis, Thomas Powers, and Garry Wills, who contributed to this symposium. His 1200-word contribution, pp. 13–14, is divided into two parts. The first deals with the spiritual condition of the U.S., a “guilty nation,” and why 9/11 “was the jackpot” for President Bush and Karl Rove, concluding with advice for John Kerry in the presidential debates. The second part, written after the debates, is more optimistic, but ends with the lines: “Perhaps it is no longer Jesus or Allah who oversees our fate but the turn of the Greek gods to take another run around the track. When it comes to destiny, they were the first, after all, to conceive of the ironies.” Rpt: 13.1.
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04.14

“The Lion on Canes.” Article by Richard Lee Fulgham. Posted 18 November. Account of a meeting with on 13 November 2004 at the Mailer Society meeting in Provincetown. Fulgham calls the members of the Society “sycophants,” and pushes his way into Mailer’s presence at an event at Mailer’s home. He asks Mailer if he will read some of his book, The Hogs of Cold Harbor, and tells Mailer, “We’re two of the last literary lions in America.” Mailer tells Fulgham that he is also a sycophant, but is gentle with him and says that when he was young, he would have acted the same way. He tells Fulgham that “things will be better the next time around.”
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04.15

“Reflections on Courage, Morality and Sexual Pleasure: A Spirited Exchange between Father and Son.” Conversation on these topics between and his son, John Buffalo. Playboy, December, 86–88, 98, 190–198. Important piece, with polite debate and Mailer’s fullest discussion of the Clinton-Lewinsky affair. Rpt: (partial) 06.2.
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04.16

A Certain Grim Pleasure’: Norman Mailer Speaks with Longtime Friend James Toback about Film.” V Life 397 (December 2004-January 2005), 76–79, 114–15. In a wide-ranging discussion on film and the horrors of modern life, also explains how the writing process has changed for him over the years: “I used to pride myself on the white heat of my first drafts . . . now it’s not like that. My first drafts are much below the final product.”
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04.17

Interview. Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of the American Empire. Edited by Sut Jhally and Jeremy Earp. Foreword by Howard Zinn. Northampton, Mass.: Interlink Publishing. joins 24 other interviewees, both conservatives such as Shadia Drury, and leftists such as Noam Chomsky, in commenting on the implications for American foreign policy created by the 9/11 attacks. In his seven-page interview recorded in Brooklyn on 29 October 2003, Mailer stresses that for President Bush 9/11 was a “golden opportunity,” one that enabled him unleash the American military on the international stage after the end of the Cold War, most notably in the invasion of Iraq. He says that 9/11, along with Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President Kennedy, are the three events in his lifetime that “that have altered American history.” See 03.13, 03.18, 03.21.
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04.2

“Immodest Proposals.” Playboy, January 2004, 90–94,198, 266, 268, 270, 272. Fiftieth anniversary issue. Long essay outlining a platform for the Democrats in the 2004 election, including ideas on corporations, taxes, education, the environment, drug decriminalization, abortion, gay marriage, homeland security, the Iraq War, and foreign policy. Rpt: 13.1.
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04.3a

“Author Mailer Has Few Kind Words for President Bush.” Article-interview by Kevin Walker. Tampa Tribune, 7 February, 6. Speaking at the Florida Suncoast Writers’ Conference after his keynote address on 6 February, said, “George Bush must be defeated. He’s vain. He’s arrogant. I’m not a knee-jerk Democrat, but I will be voting for Kerry.” Noting that Americans have difficulty balancing Christian idealism and the American dream of “piling up mountains of moolah,” he said, “Jesus Christ and Evil Knievel don’t consort too well in one psyche.”
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04.4

Preface to The Good, the Bad, and the Dolce Vita: The Adventures of an Actor in Hollywood, Paris, and Rome, by Mickey Knox, 1–5. New York: Nation Books, 1 April. Knox, one of ’s oldest friends, appeared in two of his experimental films in the 1960s, and the 1967 off-Broadway production of Mailer’s play, The Deer Park (67.13). Mailer discusses Knox’s brilliant performance in the play, his screen work, his reputation a lover, and his overseas work as a dialogue coach after being blacklisted during the Red scare of the late 1950s.
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04.4a

“Are You Open-Minded Enough for Norman Mailer on Iraq?” Article-interview by Evan Schaeffer. Evan Schaeffer’s Legal Underground, 21 April. Internet. Account of ’s speech at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville on 20 April. Mailer spoke on his support for Democratic candidate John Kerry, and the war in Iraq, and said that America had overthrown Iraq’s dictator, Saddam Hussein, who was generally detested, but “there’s a shame involved in this for the Iraqis,” for having another nation do this dirty job. Asked about getting bogged down, he said, “It’s shocking when you can see a situation coming up before your leaders do. There’s no other way to put it: They were so fucking stupid.” He also spoke about novel-writing: “Writing novels is damned tough. Half of all very good novels have endings not as good as the novel promises. The reason is because you lose it, the novel gets away from you.” See. 04.4b.
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04.4b

“Author Norman Mailer Sounds Off against Bush, War in Iraq.” Article-interview by Sheri McWhirter. (Alton, Ill) Telegraph, 22 April, C1. A second report on ’s 20 April speech at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. After the 9-11 attacks on the U.S., Americans, Mailer said, had to ask themselves why they were so hated in other parts of the world, and question our fundamental identity. “We had to overcome our identity crisis,” he said. “Hell, we had to overpower it—wave a flag. We don’t need compulsive, self-serving patriotism. It’s odious.” Speaking of Iraq, he said, “You can’t bring democracy to tyranny by conquest. Democracy must come from within.” See 04.4a.
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04.5

“Mailer: Why He is Still at War.” Article by S.H and J.P. Pennsylvania Gazette (Univ. of Pennsylvania), May-June. After being introduced by Robert F. Lucid, answered questions at the Kelly Writers House on the University of Pennsylvania campus, most of them dealing with politics and the Iraq War. He said,
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04.6a

“Learning from Mailer: Toss Plot, Focus on Character.” Article by Emily C. Dooley. Cape Cod Times, 11 July. The writer observes ’s writing workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. The brunt of his presentation is on the dangers of plotting a novel too tightly beforehand. “I don’t want my story to be in place before my characters develop,” he said. He also compared and contrasted first and third person points of view.
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04.7

Dedication: “For Donna, Stephen, Joseph and James. With a special appreciation for the students of English 397, Norman Mailer Seminar, at Wilkes University.”
Limited, numbered edition of 110, signed by and editor. A compilation of 76 letters to family, friends, literary associates and admirers concerning the 1964 serial publication in Esquire of Mailer’s fourth novel, its subsequent publication in revised form by Dial Press in 1965 (65.7), and the 1966 Warner Brothers film version. Contains 14 illustrations (10 in color), four appendices, critical introduction, and index. Advance excerpt of nine of the letters appeared in Provincetown Arts 19 (summer 2004), 109–113. Sixteen of the letters appear in 14.3.
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04.7a

“Author Norman Mailer Talks Shop at Wilkes.” Article-interview by Heidi E. Ruckno. Citizens’ Voice, 27 June. Speaking at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center during his fourth visit to Wilkes, centered his comments on the writing life. “Characters must keep developing and plot will take care of itself,” he said, adding that if an author wrote a novel with a particular story in mind that the possibilities would be limited. “Our love of plot comes out of a need to show the cause and effect that our lives often do not have.”
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04.8

“Father to Son: What I've learned about Rage.” A conversation between and his son John Buffalo. New York, 9 August, 28–35. Cover story (with editor's title). 
In this lengthy conversation between Mailer and his youngest son, the chief topic is the upcoming Republican convention in New York and how protests against it might aid or injure the Democrats. Also considered are the anti-Vietnam War protests, Sen. McCain, Pres. Bush, Sen. Kerry, Pat Buchanan and American corporations. Rpt: (partial) 06.2.
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04.9

“Mailer Takes Goodman to Task Over Election Issues.” Article by Ann Wood. Provincetown Banner, 29 July 2004, 3. interrupted Ann Goodman, a long-winded speaker, to urge everyone to support John Kerry’s presidential bid. “The Republicans are hoping that we’ll make assholes of ourselves. They’re counting on it,” referring to his fear that someone would burn an American flag. “Our immediate need is to beat Bush.”
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04.9a

“Norman Mailer: Why I Am Protesting the Presidency.” Interview
by Amy Goodman, DemocracyNow.
Transcript of interview on radio
station WOMR in Provincetown
on the eve of the 2004 Democratic
convention, June 26–29. Mailer
endorses Sen. John Kerry, and
lambastes President Bush as a toady
of corporations. He also speaks
at length about the efficacy of the
1967 March on the Pentagon.
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05.10

“The Write Place.” Article-interview by Debbie Forman. Cape Cod View, 20 July, 21–25. looks back at his years in Provincetown, recalling that when he was in the army “I kept dreaming about coming back here. And I started ‘The Naked and the Dead’ in one of the [Crow’s Nest] cottages in North Truro.” He adds, “I started a great many books here. I’ve written more than two-thirds of many books here.” Norris Mailer is also interviewed in this piece. See 95.36, 05.10, 07.2.
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05.11a

“Commentary.” NB, column by James Campbell. Times Literary Supplement, 25 November. Brief mention of receiving an award for “distinguished contribution to American letters,” from the National Books Award Foundation a week earlier, presented by Toni Morrison. One of Mailer’s lines from his acceptance speech is quoted: “In the literary world today, passion has withered.”
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05.12

“Mailer’s Papers Come to Texas.” Article-interview by unidentified author. Ransom News (newsletter of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas) 13 (winter), 1, 8. explains why he sold his papers to Texas and what they might be used for in the future. See 05.3–05.6, 05.9, 05.13.
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05.13

“You’ve Got Mailer.” Article by Don Graham. Texas Monthly, November, 94, 96, 105, 108. Overview of ’s career with comments about the sale of his papers. Mailer is quoted, briefly, from his address to a press conference in Austin: Texas “has produced some of the bravest people and some of the most god-awful. In my mind, George W. Bush falls firmly in the second category.” See 05.5–05.6, 05.9, 05.12.
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05.1b

“Mailer Holds Nothing Back in Speech at Weber State.” Article-interview by Brandon Griggs. Salt Lake Tribune, 1 April. , keynote speaker for the National Undergraduate Literature Conference at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, noted that this was his first time back to the state since he published The Executioner’s Song (79.14). He recalled telling a Mormon lawyer back in the 70s, “You have a tough religion.” The man responded, “Religion is supposed to be tough.” Mailer added, “I’ve never forgotten that.” Most of his remarks dealt with American identity or the Iraq War. “We have to stop acting like spoiled children, assuming we are the best nation in the world, [and] that America is God’s favorite country. We have many more questions than answers.” Mailer also mentioned that he had written 700 pages of a new novel The Castle in the Forest (07.10), but declined to reveal its subject. See 05.1c.
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05.1c

“Octegenarian [sic] Author Speaks about Death, War, and Ben Lomond.” Article-interview by Amy K. Stewart. Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah), 1 April. , speaking at the event described in the previous entry, spoke at some length about the recent death of brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, who was removed from life support after 15 years on a feeding tube. He said he was weary of those who compared her death to abortion, and said, “What about our soldiers who die in war? Is that flaunting God’s will?” Mailer said he preferred Ogden to Provo, where he spent several months researching The Executioner’s Song (79.14), finding Ogden to be “more open. You really live existentially here, because there are so many things that can dare you.” One of them, he said, would be climbing the area’s highest peak, Mt. Ben Lomond. See 05.1b.
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05.2

“Mailer v. Mailer: Norman Mailer Talks with His Son, John Buffalo Mailer, about the Sport of Boxing.” Stop Smiling, no. 20, 15 April 38–43, 91. ’s longest discussion of boxing in an interview. Rpt: (partial), 06.2.
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05.3

“Mailer’s Miscellany.” Article-interview by Douglas Brinkley. New York Times, 26 April 2005, E1, E7. answers question about the sale of his papers to the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas-Austin. Mailer’s archivists, J. Michael Lennon and Robert F. Lucid, add details about the scope and contents of the archive. See 05.4–05.6, 05.9, 05.12, 05.13.
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05.4

“Mailer Gives Archives to Ransom Center.” Article-interview by Yashoda Sampath. Daily Texan, 26 April 2005, 1, 2A. More details on the sale of ’s papers. See 05.3, 05.5, 05.6, 05.9, 05.12, 05.13.
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