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“Maternal Jodie; Mailer’s CIA.” Column by Jeannie Williams. USA Today, 26 September, Sec. D, p. 2. comments on 91.26: “I wasn’t writing this book to expose the CIA”; and John Simon’s review in the New York Times Book Review, 29 September: Simon “liked the book more than he wanted to.” Williams says the novel “could be the longest hard-cover novel Random House (or anyone) has printed.” See 91.15, 91.16, 91.19, 91.43, 91.48.
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91.15

“A Fjord in George Will’s Future.” (New York) Daily News, 27 September, 8. Column by Richard Johnson. is quoted on his response to John Simon’s review of 91.26: “I’m impressed that John Simon, the Adolf Eichmann of theater critics, now promoted, or demoted, to book reviewer, was obliged grudgingly and against his grain to give Harlot’s Ghost a grossly favorable reception.” See 91.14, 91.16, 91.19, 91.43, 91.48.
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91.16

“Harlot Militant.” New York Times Book Review, 29 September, 25. Brief excerpt (244 words) from 91.26 consisting of Hugh Montague’s comparison of Communism and Christianity. Accompanied by John Simon’s negative review. See 91.14, 91.15, 91.19, 91.43, 91.48.
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91.17

“Mailer’s America.” Interview by J. Michael Lennon. Chicago Tribune, 29 September, Sec. 13 (“Arts”), pp. 18–19, 27. Fact and fiction in 91.26 is the heart of this interview, conducted in Provincetown, in mid-July, with additional comment on epistolary and epistemological aspects of the novel: “[Henry] James frightened me forever with his dictum that one must never put information into a novel unless it is digested through the lens of a protagonist’s perceptions.”
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91.18

“The Softer Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Tim Warren. (Baltimore) Sun, 29 September, Sec. H, pp. 1, 8. Warren records some of ’s comments at a Random House meeting with reporters just prior to the publication of 91.26. See 91.31, 91.32.
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91.19

“Between the Covers: Mailer Goes the Distance.” Column by Matthew Flamm. New York Post, 30 September, 23. Flamm serves up the responses of several individuals to John Simon’s “mixed-to-negative review” of 91.26 in the 29 September New York Times Book Review, including Mitchell Ivers, Random House managing editor, Simon, and daily Times book reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, whose positive review of 91.26 Simon called “a typical, miserable, toadying, cowardly review.” Mailer says, “The mark of Simon’s incapacity to be a literary reviewer—as a theater reviewer he’s vicious but very often interesting—is that he knows very little about the novel.” Accompanied by 91.20. See 91.14–91.16, 91.43, 91.48.
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91.2

“How the Wimp Won the War.” Vanity Fair, May, 138–143, 184, 186. Essay on the Gulf War. Discarded title: “Cleaning the Augean Stables.” Rpt: 92.13, 98.7 (partial), complete in 13.1.
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91.20

“The Mailest Tries Kinder.” Article-interview by Matthew Flamm. New York Post, 30 September, 23–24. Over breakfast at Random House, talks about 91.26: “My goal would be that half the people who read this book say: ‘Let’s abolish the goddam thing’ [the CIA] and the other half says: ‘Gee, I’d like to join.’” Accompanied by 91.19.
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91.21

“His Punch Is Better than Ever.” Interview by Bonnie Angelo. Time, 30 September, 68–69. speaks more of politics than literature, touching on George Bush, the Clarence Thomas nomination, the Women’s Liberation movement, reincarnation, and the men’s movement led by Robert Bly: “I believe Bly and I are thinking on parallel lines. He may be a touch too mystical to my taste, but I think there are great mysteries to masculine psychology.” Accompanied by Paul Gray’s negative review of 91.26.
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91.22

The Lives of Norman Mailer by Carl Rollyson. New York: Paragon House, October. was not interviewed for this biography (which Paragon House published to appear at the same time as 91.26), nor were most of his family and friends. Rollyson provides more purely literary analysis—much of it very thoughtful—than his predecessors, but overall the book is quite derivative. Over 55 percent of his secondary references are to three books: the biographies of Hilary Mills (82.23) and Peter Manso (85.13), and Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6); only a bit more than five percent of the references are to the author’s original interviews, although some of these—with William Styron, John W. Aldridge, Norman Rosten and Rust Hills—are unique and valuable.
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91.23

“Mailer’s Alpha and Omega.” Article-interview by Toby Thompson. Vanity Fair, October, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 162. The keel of this piece is ’s Alpha-Omega personality theory from 91.26. Thompson interviews Mailer at least three times, and also speaks with Robert F. Lucid, Richard Stratton, Gay Talese, Camille Paglia, Tom McGuane, Larry McMurtry, his editor at Random House, Jason Epstein, his sister Barbara Wasserman, and his wife Norris Church.
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91.25

“Stormin’ Norman.” Article-interview by Christopher Hitchens. Vogue, October, 311–312, 366–367. Contains a thoughtful dialogue on 91.26 and the nature of the CIA. Mailer calls the novel a “comedy of manners,” and explains the contradiction he sees at the heart of the CIA: “the interface between bureaucracy and unprecedented action.”
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91.26

====Harlot’s Ghost. New York: Random House, 2 October. London: Michael Joseph, late October; Novel, 1310 pp., $30.====
Dedication: “To Jason Epstein.” Rpt: Advance excerpts appeared in Esquire (88.5), Playboy (88.11), Story (89.10), Rolling Stone (91.4–91.6), Paris Review (91.8), Partisan Review (91.9), New York (91.11), New York Review of Books (91.13), New York Times Book Review (91.16); 16 separate excerpts, more than from any other work, are reprinted in The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 76.9, 91.27, 91.48, other 1991 entries, 92.5, 98.9.
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91.27

“Norman Mailer on Harlot’s Ghost.” Random House Publicity Flyer, 3 pp. Adapted and expanded version of two question-and-answer periods conducted by at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, New York, on 25 February. No date; probably appeared just before or on publication date (2 October) of 91.26. Mailer explains why he used the real names for some characters in 91.26, and fictional names for others, his sources, and the working title of the sequel: Harlot’s Grave. He also talks about whether he could ever have been a CIA man: “I’ve always had the feeling that if I’d grown up in a different family with a wholly different background and different politics, that I might have been in the CIA. Because I confess rankly to loving all that duplicity, deceit, manipulation, double-dealing—all of it—in the name of a higher purpose.”
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91.28

“The Mellower Mailer.” Article-interview by Josh Getlin. Los Angeles Times, 3 October, Sec. E, pp. 1, 9. The conversation revolves around 91.26, including comments on J.F.K., and a conversation about conservatism once had with Arthur Miller.
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91.29

“Mailer: Man of God.” Article-interview by Mashey Bernstein. Jewish Chronicle, 4 October. Interesting profile of Mailer the Jew, centering on a Passover Seder Bernstein conducted at Mailer’s home. See 83.44, 97.3.
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91.3

“Mailer and Vidal: The Big Schmooze.” Interview by Carole Mallory. Esquire, May, 105–106, 108–112. Less of an interview than a -Gore Vidal conversation, this piece moves rapidly and humorously over a lot of ground. It is focused as much on the end of the American century as it is on purely literary matters. They discuss LaRochefoucauld, Herman Melville, J.F.K. (at some length), L.B.J., George Bush, John Cheever, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Saddam Hussein and Eugene McCarthy. Mailer states, “I’m not saying that I write as well as Melville, but my style was absolutely shaped by his love of long, rolling sentences that contain inversions and reverses and paradoxes and ironies and exclamation points and dashes.” See 77.4–77.9, 85.6.
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91.31

“Norman’s Conquest.” Article-interview by Ruth Pollack Coughlin. Detroit News, 5 October, Sec. C (“Accent”), pp. 1, 4. Coughlin and five other reporters meet at Random House. Brief piece centered on her own reactions to Mailer. Accompanied by David Walton’s positive review. See 91.18, 91.32.
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91.31a

“Literary Ghosts Keep Mailer True to Ambition of Greatness.” Article-Interview by unidentified writers. AP wire story, Sunday Bulletin (Philadelphia), 6 October, E6. Another report from ’s mini-press conference with six reports at Random house in late September. Responding to a question about the extraordinary length of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), Mailer said, “There are too many short novels. I like a book that you can pick up and read and feel you’ve really had an experience.” He added that he’d “never had a day yet when I haven’t wondered if I could do this,” keep writing. “I think I am a very good writer. Great writers change your life. Very good writers alter it.”
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91.32

“Norman Mailer: Larger than Life.” Article-interview by Jocelyn McClurg. Hartford Courant, 6 October, Sec. G, pp. 1, 6. Like 91.31, this piece is based on a Random House meeting of six reporters and in late September to discuss 91.26. Asked if Kittredge was a response to his female critics, he says, “I wanted to say to women, ‘Look, if you can’t recognize that I am trying to create a woman who is completely a woman, a woman who can talk to all of you, the hell with it, let’s cease having a dialogue altogether.’” See 91.18.
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91.33

“Norman Mailer Returns to the Arena.” Article-interview by Dana Kennedy. Houston Post, 6 October, Sec. C, p. 6. This brief Associated Press piece, drawn from a meeting at Random House, contains a few comments on 91.26 and how it feels to be getting old.
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91.34

“Mailer Raises Sword against Critics’ Pens.” Article-interview by Carlin Romano. Philadelphia Inquirer, 11 October, Sec. F, pp. 1, 8. Several of Romano’s quotes come from earlier interviews with other writers on the subject of 91.26. The piece ends with ’s comment on self-pity: “Who ever committed murder or incest without [first] being drenched in self-pity? Self-pity is the core of it all. If one spent every day cleaning the self-pity out, the way animals take pests out of their hide, we’d each be that inch closer to where we want to be.” Quotes, positive and negative, from five reviews of 91.26 are given by Romano.
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91.34a

“Norman Mailer: Tough Guys Don’t Quit.” Article-interview by Philip Marchand. Toronto Star, 12 October, K1, K11. Account of a long press conference about Harlot’s Ghost (91.26) at Random House. In regard to the sequel, said, “I promised before to write books that I never wrote, so I’m leery of swearing by all the gods that this second novel will be done and delivered. But I certainly hope so…Novels can’t be done by an act of will.”
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91.35

“Soft Spots in a Tough Guise.” Article-interview by Peter Stothard. Times Saturday (London), 12 October, 16–17; cover photographs of by Graham Wood. In preparation for the British publication of 91.26, Mailer talks (in New York) about the novel, the CIA, capitalism, Fidel Castro, alcohol and drugs and the U.S.: “Are we a good country or a bad one? I mean, are we a good country with all sorts of hideous things wrong with us, or are we essentially a bad country with lots of superficially positive aspects?”
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91.36

“He’s Back to the Old Haunts.” Article-interview by Bill Bell. (New York) Daily News, 16 October, 1, 40; cover photograph of . Light piece with brief quotes from Mailer on 91.26, drinking, fame, the Brooklyn Dodgers, his reading habits and the questions of reporters: “They ask the same questions,” he says, “and I give them different answers.”
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91.37

“Mailer’s American Dream.” Article-interview by Patricia Holt. San Francisco Chronicle, 17 October, Sec. E (“Datebook”), pp. 1, 4. sticks closely to the nature of the CIA and his motives for writing 91.26 in this relatively brief piece: He says that the CIA is “the nearest thing Americans have to sophisticated evil. Of course, the paradox is that the best people working for the government work for the CIA. So I wanted to explore the American establishment at its top and at its best.”
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91.38

“Page Six: Knife? Nice! Norm Told Styron.” Column by Frank DiGiacomo and Joanna Molloy. New York Post, 21 October, 6. and William Styron deny that Mailer, in 1954, spoke with admiration about an acquaintance stabbing a woman, as reported in Carl Rollyson’s biography of Mailer (91.22). Mailer says, “My reaction was not admiration, but awe. I was bewildered. I felt that it was absolutely outside my compass. I wondered, ‘How does anyone get to that fever pitch?’ The irony is that I learned how.” See 60.11.
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91.39

“Mailer Muzzles His Mouthpiece.” Article-interview by Bruce Cook. L.A. Life, 22 October, 18–19. Cook’s by-line is followed by “Special to the [New York] Daily News,” indicating where this piece first appeared. Cook, an old hand, places Harlot’s Ghost (91.26) in the context of Mailer’s long career, and gets him to talk about his protagonist, Harry Hubbard.
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91.4

“Norman Mailer: Harlot’s Ghost, Part I: In Berlin, CIA Agent Harry Hubbard Gets His First Taste of Sex and Treachery.” Rolling Stone, 11–25 July, 56–60, 126, 128–130, 132–133. Excerpt from novel of same name (91.26). Illustrated by Philip Burke and John Collier. Rpt: Appearing three months before the novel, this excerpt (first of three in Rolling Stone) deals with Hubbard’s exploits with Dix Butler in the bars and brothels of Berlin; it is taken with very minor changes (the excision of some CIA code names) from “The Alpha” Manuscript,” part 2, “Berlin,” most of chapter 3 and all of chapter 7.
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91.40

“Advertisements: On the Publicity Trail with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Maureen O’Brien. Publishers’ Weekly, 25 October, 22–24. O’Brien sticks with throughout 7 October as he moves through a dizzying round of interviews accompanied by Random House publicist, Peter Vertes: the “Today” show; WCBS News Radio’s “Book Beat”; a local talk show, “New York and Co.”; the Miami Herald; National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”; for a Canadian television documentary on Henry Miller; and, in the evening, on Debra Norville’s syndicated talk show. O’Brien notices that “he never answers the same question the same way twice.” Mailer says that “he plans to start writing the sequel to Harlot’s Ghost91.26 this summer (‘All I have now are a lot of notes’) after he puts the finishing touches on his ‘short, interpretive biography’ of Picasso” (95.38).
===Note===
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91.41

“Life’s Like That.” Article-interview by unidentified writer. Economist, 26 October, 115. In London to promote the British publication of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), Mailer meets the press at Brown’s Hotel and talks about the architecture of his novel. It has “an excluded middle,” he says. “That’s good because it gives the reader some scope. The missing part shapes up in his mind. Life is like that.”
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91.42

“Mailer Likes That Dangling Participle in His New Novel.” Article by unidentified writer. (Illinois) State Journal-Register, 26 October, 2. After quoting the first sentence of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), this article gives ’s faxed response to criticism of it in a 25 October Associated Press story in the paper. The sentence reads: “On a late winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.” In reply, Mailer says:
Grammarians may legitimately disagree on whether this is a bonafide dangling participle.
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91.43

“Mailer Gets to Talk Back to N.Y. Times.” Article by David Streitfeld. Washington Post, 30 October. Report on ’s meeting with New York Times Book Review editor, Rebecca Sinkler, and Times managing editor, Joseph Lelyveld, on 28 October to seek a chance to reply to John Simon’s 29 September review of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26). Mailer was successful and his response (91.48) appeared on 17 November. A Times spokesman, William Adler, said Mailer’s piece “is unusual but I don’t believe it’s unprecedented. It’s in the context of a literary dialogue.” Simon said if he were running a book review, “I would publish whatever review I published and that would be it. If the author didn’t like it, tough.” Mailer had one word for the Times session: “transmogrificational.” See 91.14–91.16, 91.19.
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91.44

“Mailer: He’s ‘Not Finished Yet.’” Article-interview by Lloyd Sachs. Chicago Sun-Times, 30 October, Sec. 2 (“Lifestyle”), 31. compares his work to that of a cobbler—”You’re doing your best to make good shoes for the sheer sake of the craft”—in this breezy piece with a few comments on 91.26, and a rehearsal of the high points of Mailer’s life and career.
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91.46

“Mr. Mailer’s Love-Fest.” Column by Liz Smith. Newsday, 3 November. Report on party at New York’s “21” given by Random House chief, Harry Evans, to celebrate the publication of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26). was extolled by Evans, Richard Snyder of Simon and Schuster and Salman Rushdie, whose letter was read. Rushdie called Mailer “literature’s chief gladiator,” and said he “has to be judged by the highest standards. To hell with buts and maybes.” The column also reported that 91.26 was on the bestseller lists nationwide. Mailer is quoted briefly.
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91.47

“Mailer Dubbed Big Apple’s Author.” Article by Associated Press writer. Newport (R.I.) Daily News, 14 November. is quoted briefly in this report on his 13 November appointment by Governor Mario Cuomo as New York State Author, which came with a $10,000 prize. Audre Lorde was appointed state poet on the same day, the report notes. On the occasion, Mailer was introduced by William Kennedy, who reprinted his introduction in his collection, Riding the Yellow Trolley Car: Selected Nonfiction (New York: Viking, 1993).
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91.47a

“State Poet Blasts Political Priorities.” Article by Paul Grondahl. Albany Times-Union, 14 November. Report on being named New York State author, and Audre Lorde state poet. Governor Mario Cuomo made the presentations. Asked if Cuomo could beat George W. Bush, Mailer said: “Hell, yeah. If there are enough serious people out there who will vote, there’s no way George Bush could beat Mario Cuomo.”
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91.47b

“People: Mailer’s Idea.” No author. (Springfield, Ill.) State Journal-Register, 15 November, 2. Brief item quoting on the occasion of being named New York State Author by Gov. Mario Cuomo. Mailer urged other states to create similar awards, adding “This idea may be a bummer, but I think it’s worth a try. Now that we no longer have that moribund, decrepit, sad, Third World country, the Soviet Union, to be our evil empire, we have to contemplate the evil empire within our own borders.” See 91.47, 91.47a.
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91.48

“A Critic with Balance: A Letter from Norman Mailer.” New York Times Book Review, 17 November, 7. ’s 1500-word response to John Simon’s 29 September review of 91.26 provides quotes from other, earlier negative reviews of Mailer’s books by Simon, as well as his negative review of Kate Mailer’s 1988 performance in Peter Brook’s version of Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. Simon replies to what he calls Mailer’s “irrelevant hue and cry” on p. 38 of the Review; Rebecca Sinkler, Review editor, adds her comments on the same page, noting that the editors were not aware of all the previous Simon reviews of Mailer’s work when they assigned the review to him, after four others turned down the assignment. See 91.14–91.16, 91.19, 91.43.
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91.49

“Norman Mailer: Stormin’ No More.” Article-interview by Joan Smith. San Francisco Examiner, 24 November, Sec. D (“Style”), pp. 1, 4. In San Francisco on the publicity tour for 91.26, talks to the media in his suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
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91.5

“Norman Mailer: Harlot’s Ghost, Part II: CIA Agent Harry Hubbard Invades the Privacy of an Indiscreet Stewardess.” Rolling Stone, 8 August, 46–47, 49, 52, 54, 56, 90, 92, 94–95. Excerpt from novel of same name (91.26). Illustrated by C.F. Payne. Rpt: Appearing less than two months before the novel, this excerpt (taken with a few very minor changes from “The Alpha Manuscript,” part 5, “The Bay of Pigs, May 1960–April 1961: Miami,” chapters 5 through 9) deals with Hubbard’s assignment to seduce Modene Murphy, lover of J.F.K., Frank Sinatra and Sam Giancana.
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