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62.9

“Wed to Lady Jean? A Mystery, by Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Fern Marja Eckman and Alfred G. Aronowitz. New York Post, 26 April, 4. Mailer confirms reports that he has divorced his second wife, Adele Morales, in Juarez, Mexico, but won’t confirm (accurate) reports that he had wed Lady Jean Campbell, daughter of the Earl of Argyll and granddaughter of Lord Beaverbrook. “There’s a theory that Jeannie and I both love a mystery,” Mailer says, “and that’s why we’re keeping a firm secret on the little matter—whether we’re married or not.” See 62.6, 62.10.
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63.1

“Punching Papa.” New York Review of Books (special issue, winter), 13. Review of That Summer in Paris, by Morley Callaghan. This inaugural issue, containing the first of many contributions by Mailer, probably appeared in February. Rpt: 66.11, 98.7 (partial), in Selections from the First Two Issues of The New York Review of Books (winter, spring 1963), edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein. New York: New York Review of Books, 1988, and in 13.1.
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63.10

September, 16, 18, 20. Comment on Nelson Algren, and violence in America. Rpt: First two-thirds as “A Television Show with Nelson Algren” in 66.11; second two-thirds (minus final two paragraphs) as “Postscript to the Second Presidential Paper” in 63.37 (with a number of small changes). See also 64.11.
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63.11

October, 50, 52. Rpt: First third as an untitled introduction to “The Seventh Presidential Paper: On Dread” in 63.37. Mailer fails to note this reprinting in his otherwise careful list of acknowledgments in 63.37, titled “Appendix B—Projects and Places.” The remainder of the column, with the exception of the first sentence, is reprinted in 72.7 and 82.19 as “Two Oddments from Esquire.” In addition, approximately 250 words from the first third are reprinted in the November Big Bite (63.12) as an excerpt from 63.37, which was published on 8 November. It is uncertain whether Mailer was reprinting portions of “Big Bite” in 63.37, or publishing advance excerpts from his miscellany in the column, or both. Whatever the case, the same 250 words on dread, politics and journalism appeared in print three times during October and November. See 90.2.
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63.12

November, 26, 28, 30, 32. Comment on J.F.K., Cuba, Jacqueline Kennedy, politics and death. Rpt: First 500 words comment on October column and note that the remainder (approximately 2,500 words) is reprinted from 63.37. This remainder, divided into eight sections, comes from the following pages, in this order, of 63.37: 26–27, 60–61, 64–65, 81–82, 161, 151–52, 214–15, 214.
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63.13

December, 22, 24, 26. Comment on the 14 August civil rights march on Washington followed by Mailer’s announcement that he will attempt to write a serial novel for Esquire over the next eight months. He ends the column: “One is tempted to call this novel An American Dream.” See 64.2–64.9, 65.7. Rpt: Mailer Review (2009), 11-16, with introductory note by J. Michael Lennon.
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63.15

“The Real Meaning of the Right Wing in America: Opposing Statements on the Role of the Right Wing in America Today: A Conservative’s View by William F. Buckley Jr.; A Liberal’s View by Norman Mailer.” Playboy, January, 110-12, 165-70, 172-74. Statements written for Playboy and read as part of a 22 September 1962 public debate in Chicago. Rpt: 63.37, 65.14 (partial), 68.11, 98.7 (partial). See 63.3, 63.22, 63.27.
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63.20

October, 320–321. Mailer departs from Buber in his final column for Commentary and discusses the minority status of Jews and Negroes. Rpt: Except for introductory paragraph, this column comprises the bulk of the untitled preface to “The Tenth Presidential Paper— Minorities” in 63.37; and in The Idol and the Octopus (68.11), where it is partially reprinted in two sub-chapters, “On Minorities” and “Action for Minorities.”
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63.21

“Smog Doggerel for the Haze”; “Static.” Way Out (School of Living, Brookville, Ohio) 19 (February), 49–50. Poems. This issue also contains “An Open Letter to Norman Mailer” by Robert Anton Wilson, 51–57, in which Wilson quotes from an earlier letter from Mailer asking Wilson to “expand your remarks on entropy.” Rpt: 66.11 (“Static” only).
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63.22

“The Role of the Right Wing: A Debate.” Playboy, February, 115-16, 119-22. Transcript of a debate with William F. Buckley Jr. in Chicago on 22 September 1962, moderated by Irv Kupcinet. Debate opened with Mailer and Buckley reading statements. See 63.15.
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63.26

“Norman Mailer Returns to Read, Philosophize on Existential Life.” Article by Paul S. Cowan. Harvard Crimson, 25 March, 1. Account of Mailer’s 24 March appearance at Harvard at which he discussed existentialism and psychoanalysis: “I am profoundly cynical about psychoanalysis.”
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63.27

“Reading from Left to Right.” Letter to the editor. Playboy, April, 8. Complaint about being labeled a liberal in his January debate with William F. Buckley Jr. in Playboy (63.15). Mailer’s letter is notable for his description of himself, perhaps for the first time, as a “left conservative.” Rpt: 14.3.
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63.27a

“Mailer Brings Existentialism to City.” Article-interview by Hoke Norris. Chicago Sun-Times, 12 May, 58. Speaking at the University of Chicago on 11 May, said that totalitarianism was taking over the country, pointing to architecture and air conditioning as examples. He also commented on his September 1962 Chicago debate with William F. Buckley, Jr., describing Buckley’s debate tactics as “unspeakably churlish invective,” but adding that offstage Buckley was “the best fellow you ever met.” He spoke at length about the nature of existentialism. “That which makes me feel good is good,” was his shorthand description of the philosophy. See 62.13a, 63.22, 63.27.
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63.28

“Norman Mailer: The Conservative Leftist.” Interview by Jan Henry. Brooklyn Heights Press, 30 May, 1, 3. Mailer describes himself as a “Left Existential Conservative” and discusses Deaths for the Ladies (62.3) and the book he is working on: “Frankie and Johnny: The Presidential Papers of Norman Mailer” (63.37).
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63.3

February, 109-20. “Ten Thousand Words a Minute.” Account of the first Floyd Patterson-Sonny Liston fight. Mailer also comments on his 22 September 1962 debate with William F. Buckley Jr. One of Mailer’s most anthologized essays. Rpt: 63.37, 98.7 (partial). See 62.14–62.17, 63.15.
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63.30

“Carnegie Hall Audience Listens to Norman Mailer’s Thoughts.” Article by Brian O’Doherty. New York Times, 1 June, 15. Account of Mailer’s reading at Carnegie Hall on 31 May, with quotes dealing with the FBI, Communism and J.F.K. See 63.31.
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63.32

“The First Presidential Paper.” Dissent 10 (summer), 249–54. Rpt: As the introduction to The Presidential Papers (63.37), titled “A Prefatory Paper—Heroes and Leaders,” with several minor changes including the addition of a list of 34 of the miscellany’s topics.
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63.33

“Antidote.” No Author. Harper’s Bazaar, July, 74–75. Questionnaire seeking the negative opinions, or “anathemas of five noted Americans,” on 13 various artistic categories and activities: play, book, painter, food, film, musical work, celebrity, activity, virtue, place, mental attitude, type of humor and “Antidote in a category of my own.” Participating are Theodore Roethke, Mailer, Marianne Moore, Orson Bean and Jules Feiffer. Mailer says: “The worst celebrity in America is of course J. Edgar Hoover,” a comment that caused this article to be placed in his FBI file.
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63.34

“The Talent and the Torment.” Article-interview by Frederick Christian. Cosmopolitan, August, 63–67. Sketchy and sensationalized overview of Mailer’s personal and literary life; contains accounts of several meetings with Mailer during the period he lived in Connecticut, and a 1963 interview in which Mailer discusses his involvement with the Actors’ Studio in New York. A letter to Christian from Mailer’s Harvard professor, Theodore Morrison, is quoted.
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63.35

“The Leading Man, or the Dark Ambiguities within Us All.” Book Week (New York Herald Tribune), 29 September, 1, 16–17. Review of J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, by Victor Lasky. Rpt: 66.11, 68.11.
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63.37

Republished with “Special Preface” by Mailer. New York: Bantam, May 1964 (64.15); republished with new preface by Mailer. New York: Berkley, October 1976 (76.13). Dedication: “This book is dedicated to some ladies who have aided and impeded the author in his composition. They are: Beverly Rentz Sugarfoot Bentley; Jean Louise Slugger Campbell; my daughters: Susan, Dandy, Betsy, Kate; my adopted daughter: Jeanne H.W. the Invaluable Johnson; my secretary: Anne Morse Towel-Boy Barry; my sister: Barbara Jane Alson; and Sadie, and Hetty Diggs, and Every-Mae.” Discarded titles: “The Devil Revisited”; “Frankie and Johnny, Or, The Murder of Good Ideas.” Mailer gives dates and details of composition for the volume’s contents in “Appendix B—Projects and Places.” Rpt: Several selections appear in 13.1, and truncated form in 98.7. See 1963 entries and 14.4.
== Bibliography ==
* Positive. Rpt: Lucid (1971).
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63.37a

“Author Traces Kennedy Impact.” Article by Richard Woodley. Middletown (Conn.) Press, 12 December, 1, 20. Account of Mailer’s talk at Wesleyan University in the wake of the assassination of the President. Mailer said that when Kennedy, who he felt was a sort of older brother, was alive, “you had the feeling for the first time there was somebody in the White House you could talk to.” He went on to indicate his fear for the future of the country: “We now wonder who will be leading the country in a year, whether or not Johnson will be alive.”
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63.38

“The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After.” New York Review of Books, 26 December, 6. Symposium contribution. This 175-word tribute is echoed, in part, by Mailer’s “Special Preface to Bantam Edition” of The Presidential Papers, May 1964 (64.15). Rpt: A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, edited by Pierre Salinger and Sander Vanocur. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 May 1964. See 76.13.
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63.39

The concluding piece in Cannibals and Christians (66.11), ’s nuclear fantasy was reworked into an unpublished screenplay by Mailer and his wife Norris Church. He once planned to call it “1999,” but decided against it feeling comparisons with Orwell’s 1984 would be invidious. Rpt: 67.11, 82.19, 84.35, The Mailer Review volume 10, pp. 10–26.
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63.40

Letters to Myrick Land. In “Mr. Norman Mailer Challenges All the Talent in the Room,” The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds, by Myrick Land, 216–238. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Chapter recapitulating “Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room” (59.10), followed by rejoinders from Mailer and some of those he appraised in the original essay: Chandler Brossard, Herbert Gold, William Styron, Gore Vidal and Vance Bourjaily. The revised second edition (San Francisco: Lexikos, 1983) contains a 1982 postscript with valedictory comments from Mailer, Bourjaily and Gold, 228–244. See “Appendix A—Professional Mendacity” in 63.37 where Mailer criticizes the 18 January Time review of Land’s book. See also 13.2, 247–252.
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63.7

June, 23-24, 28, 32. Important remarks on the decline of the novel, including specific comment on Gore Vidal, Vance Bourjaily, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Rpt: As the first part of “Some Children of the Goddess” (with a few minor changes) in 66.11.
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63.8

“Some Children of the Goddess: Further Evaluations of the Talent in the Room.” July, 63-69, 105. This long essay of literary criticism is titled “Norman Mailer versus Nine Writers” on the table of contents page. The nine, in order of Mailer’s consideration, are William Styron, James Jones, James Baldwin, William Burroughs, Joseph Heller, John Updike, Philip Roth, J.D. Salinger and Saul Bellow. Mailer also comments on Vance Bourjaily. The essay’s subtitle links it with his 1959 essay (59.10) on 17 writers, including Jones, Styron, Bellow and Baldwin. One of Mailer’s finest critical pieces. Calder Willingham responded in “The Way It Isn’t Done: Notes on the Distress of Norman Mailer,” Esquire, December. Rpt: Contemporary American Novelists, edited by Harry T. Moore. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, October; as the second part of “Some Children of the Goddess” (preceded by 63.7) in 66.11, 13.1.
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64.1

“Norman Mailer: The Art of Fiction XXXII.” Interview by Steven Marcus. Paris Review, no. 31 (winter-spring), 28-58. Omnibus interview, one of Mailer’s most important, conducted 6 July 1963. Rpt: Writers at Work: The “Paris Review” Interviews, edited by Alfred Kazin. 3rd ser. New York: Viking, 1967; Norman Mailer: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Leo Braudy. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972; partial in 66.11, 82.16 (where it appears as “Craft and Consciousness”); complete in 88.6.
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64.10

“Mailer vs. Scully.” Architectural Forum, April, 96-97. Debate on modern architecture with Vincent J. Scully Jr., Professor of Art History at Yale, in three parts:
# excerpts from Mailer’s August 1963 “Big Bite” column (63.9);
# Scully’s response, which appeared almost simultaneously in the Village Voice on 16 April;
# Mailer’s rebuttal, which appears here for the first time.
The editors of Architectural Forum state that the first part of Mailer’s contribution is a condensation of two of Mailer’s Esquire columns. This is not the case; all of the first part is from the August 1963 column. A final note: Mailer has published one section of this column five times. It represents his polemical style at its best:
Rpt: Rebuttal only, slightly revised in 64.16 and 64.17; partial in 66.11 and 68.11.
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64.10a

“Mailer and Buckley Talk on ‘Open End.’” New York Times, 3 February. Brief article describing another debate in which Buckley was the apparent winner. When Mailer asked him why Buckley appeared with him if he thought Mailer was a freak, Buckley said, “You are a magnetic field in this country.”
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64.11

Untitled announcement. In “Backstage with Esquire,” Esquire, April, 40. Mailer announces the five winners ($5 apiece) of his essay contest, announced in his September 1963 “Big Bite” column (63.10): “Why I am not now and never have been a member of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
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64.15

“Special Preface to the Bantam Edition.” The Presidential Papers. New York: Bantam, May, softcover, v-vii. Foreshadowed by Mailer’s contribution to “The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After” (63.38). Same preface appears in the first British edition (63.37). The first American edition of 63.37 has a jacket photograph of Mailer in a J.F.K.-style rocker. The same picture is used on the cover of the Bantam edition, but the photograph has been altered to remove the rockers. Rpt: 76.13. See 14.4.
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64.16

“Architects: Blindness Is the Fruit of Your Design.” Village Voice, 18 June, 5. Essay consisting of part three of 64.10, slightly revised. The editors of Village Voice note that when Vincent Scully was offered the last word in this debate on modern architecture, he said, “I feel that I have had the last word already.” Rpt: 64.17; and partial in 66.11 and 68.11.
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64.17

“Gargoyle, Guignol, False Closet.” Dublin: Dolmen Press, July, 2 pp. pamphlet. Limited edition of 100. Essay, consisting of the rebuttal portion (part three) of 64.10, slightly revised. Rpt: 64.16, partial in 66.11 and 68.11.
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64.18

“The Executioner’s Song.” Fuck You/A Magazine of the Arts 7 (no. 5), September [23-25]. Poem. The magazine, 83 pages, is reproduced typescript on sheets of various colors, unbound, stapled. Edited by Ed Sanders (founder of “The Fugs,” described in 68.8), it contains poems by Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creely, William Burroughs, Charles Olson, Michael McClure, Judith Malina, Gary Snyder and several others. Mailer later used the poem’s title for chapter 15 of The Fight (75.12), and for The Executioner’s Song (79.14). Rpt: 66.11 (with slight changes and mistitled “The Executioners” in acknowledgments).
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64.2

“An American Dream: A New Novel Serialized Exclusively in Esquire by Norman Mailer; Installment One: The Harbors of the Moon.” Esquire, January, 77–81, 131–132. Mailer took the title of this chapter from a poem about Provincetown in 62.3; he then reprinted the poem after his preface to the Franklin Library edition of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17); and again as the final selection of Time of Our Time (98.7). See 64.9.
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64.20

“In the Red Light: A History of the Republican Convention in 1964.” Esquire, November, 83–89, 167–172, 174–177, 179. Nonfiction narrative. Rpt: 65.14 (partial), 66.11, 68.11, 76.5.
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64.21

“The Best Man, 1964: To Pick Him, We Must Choose between Nostalgic Extremism and Overwhelming Moderation.” Book Week (New York Herald Tribune), 1 November, 1, 7–8. Review of My Hope for America, by Lyndon B. Johnson. The second half of the review’s title is most likely the work of the editors of Book Week, according to Mailer. Rpt: 65.14 (partial), 66.11, 68.11, 98.7.
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64.23

Letter to Pierre Brodin. In Présences: Contemporaines Écrivains Américains D’Aujourd’hui, by Pierre Brodin, 205. Paris: Les Nouvelles Éditions Debresse. Mailer answers Brodin’s query about his favorite French novels by saying that
He goes on to mention others: Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, André Gide, J.K. Huysmans, Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Georges Simenon, and “the largest single personal influence on my intellectual life has been my dear and old friend, Jean Malaquais.” Mailer’s letter is included in an appendix to this study of American writers. Rpt: 14.3.
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64.5

“Installment Four: Green Circles of Exhaustion.” Esquire, April, 97–100, 146–148. A summary by Esquire editors of the first three installments is found on 154. Rpt: Dial Souvenir Sampler, 1964. New York: Dial (mistitled as chapter 2).
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64.6

“Installment Five: A Catenary of Manners.” Esquire, May, 124–127, 143–144, 146–152. A summary by Esquire editors of the first four installments is found on 158. The summary concludes with the line, “The Dial Press will publish An American Dream in August.” Dial did publish the novel, but not until the following March. The 12 October Publishers Weekly contains an advertisement for the novel and gives a January publication date.
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64.9

“Installment VIII: At the Lion and the Serpent.” Esquire, August, 41–43, 94, 96, 98, 100–108. The installment is followed by this note: “This concludes An American Dream. Dial Press will publish it in hardcover form this fall.” In the novel’s final version, the concluding (and revised) portion of 64.9 is broken off as “Epilogue: The Harbors of the Moon Again.” See 64.2, 65.7.
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65.1

“Defenders of ‘Naked Lunch’ Compare Burroughs to Authors of Classics.” Article by Joseph M. Harvey. Boston Globe, 13 January, 14. Report on the obscenity trial of William Burroughs in Suffolk County Superior Court, Boston. Beside Mailer, John Ciardi, Paul Hollander, Gabrielle Bernhard, Norman H. Holland, Dr. Stanley Eldred and Dr. John Barry Sturrock testified. Mailer extolled the novel as “marvelously well-written” and Burroughs as “possibly the most talented writer in America.” See 62.24, 65.13, 81.21, 92.12, 96.7, 98.14a.
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65.10

“PPA Press Conference.” Publishers’ Weekly, 22 March, 41-45. Account of a series of press conferences with authors of new books during National Book Awards Week. Mailer’s comments deal with the “moral nihilists’ wing” of current writers, including himself, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Terry Southern. He also comments on his new novel, 65.7. Mailer’s comment on Saul Bellow’s Herzog, is quoted on 30–31. See 65.4, 65.6, 65.8.
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65.11a

“Norman Mailer’s Night Out.” Article-interview by David Leitch. The Sunday Times (London). 25 April, 1. A long piece in which Mailer recounts some of the challenges he faced in writing An American Dream (65.7). Mailer: “There were times in the first two or three installments when I felt scared I’d dry up—but then it was all right.” He also discusses President Kennedy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Beckett, James T. Farrell, and his friend, boxer José Torres.
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