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84.8

“Publishing: Mailer Talks about His New Thriller.” Article-interview by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 8 June, Sec. C, p. 28. Another, and the most complete, account of the Random House dinner in Washington, D.C. given to promote the forthcoming 84.17. Mailer described the murder mystery as being “like an illegitimate baby—it was written in two months, therefore born out of wedlock, and I’m struck by the fact that the event took place.” See 84.5, 84.6, 84.30.
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84.9

“Norman Mailer Elected PEN President.” PEN American Center Newsletter, no. 54 (summer), 1. One hundred and eighty-five-word excerpt from Mailer’s statement on the importance of PEN given at the PEN annual meeting, 11 July. Mailer says that “writers can speak to one another across the world more quickly than can governments.” His term ran 1984–1986.
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85.1

“1000 Writers to Meet in New York at PEN International Congress.” Article-interview by Madalynne Reuter. Publishers’ Weekly, 8 February, 23– 24. Heralding the 12–18 January 1986 conference in New York, Mailer and PEN American Center executive director Karen Kennerly gave an overview on the event. Mailer came up with the idea of asking 16 American authors to speak two at time for eight evenings to raise money for the conference. They are: Mailer, William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Bellow, Woody Allen, Eudora Welty, William F. Buckley Jr., Joan Didion, John Irving, James Michener, Arthur Miller, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Gore Vidal and Tom Wolfe. Mailer explained the theme of the conference is the “imagination of the writer and the imagination of the state,” but that there would be “no invidious comparisons of governments. Our purpose is to enhance relations rather than smash them.” Asked if organizing a conference is harder than writing, Mailer said it was. “But after you turn 60, you have to take up church work.” See 85.2, 85.6, 85.8, 85.9, winter and spring 1986 entries.
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85.10

“The Cathedral of St. Isaac in Leningrad.” Partisan Review 51 (double issue: 51:4, 1984 and 52:1, 1985), 535. Poem. Rpt: Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition, edited by William Phillips. New York: Stein and Day.
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85.11

A Fragment From Vietnam: A Play in One Act. Helsinki: Eurographica, softcover. One-act play with accompanying self-interview (67.16), 39 pp. Limited edition of 350, plus 12 author’s copies. Adapted by Mailer from Why Are We In Vietnam? (67.15). Rpt: 72.7, 82.19. See 67.15 for context and description of this reprint; 72.18.
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85.13

Interviews by Peter Manso. In Mailer: His Life and Times, by Peter Manso, passim. New York: Simon and Schuster. Second book-length (oral) biography of Mailer. Contains original interviews with Mailer, his family, friends and acquaintances; a total of 151 individuals are identified in the “Contributors” section, many of them never interviewed before or since. Includes a partial Mailer family tree, excerpts from reviews of many Mailer books and some of his letters to Francis Irby “Fig” Gwaltney, a detailed index and scores of photographs from all periods of Mailer’s life. The brunt of the book is the wide range and number of utterances on Mailer’s life; its weakness is the paucity of editorial synthesis and perspective. Mailer’s work is scanted in favor of his life.
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85.14

Introduction to new edition of After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars, by John W. Aldridge, xvii–xxii. New York: Arbor House, softcover. Mailer received his first important critical notice in the first edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1951), and Aldridge became a good friend.
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85.15

“Norman Mailer.” Interview by Charles Ruas. In Conversations with American Writers, by Charles Ruas, 18–36. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Thirteen other writers are included: Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Marguerite Young, William Burroughs, Joseph Heller, Susan Sontag, E.L. Doctorow, Toni Morrison, Paul Theroux, Robert Stone and Scott Spencer. Most of the interview, which took place in 1982, is given over to a discussion of Jack Abbott, violence, The Executioner’s Song (79.14) and Ancient Evenings (83.18), of which Mailer says: “I just finished Ancient Evenings a couple of weeks ago, and it’s 1,744 double-spaced pages.” See 80.10.
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85.16

Seminar Comments. In From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America, by Shelley Fisher Fishkin, 208–209. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Speaking in Fishkin’s 1982 journalism seminar at Yale, Mailer discusses the melding of journalism and fiction in The Executioner’s Song (79.14).
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85.3

“Mailer Admits Someone’s Better.” Article by Brian Petersen. Grand Forks (North Dakota) Herald, 22 March, Sec. A, pp. 1, 8. Account of the 21 March University of North Dakota Writers Conference on narrative. Mailer, Alex Haley, Amy Clampitt and Jorie Graham were the speakers. Mailer said his instincts told him to speed up the dialogue in The Executioner’s Song (79.14) until he saw that it could not be improved. “I realized God is a better novelist than the novelist.”
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85.4

“The Hazards and Sources of Writing.” Michigan Quarterly Review 24 (summer), 391–402. Expanded, revised version of “A Sinister Occupation” (81.9) given as a Hopwood Lecture at the University of Michigan, April 1984. Mailer’s longest essay on his craft and his most important uncollected essay. Rpt: Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures, edited by Nicholas Delbanco. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990; 13.1.
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85.4a

“Mailer-Vidal Reading Highlights Series of Forums.” Article-interview by John Blades. Chicago Tribune, 1 September. An overview of the upcoming “PEN Celebrations,” a series of readings in support of the January 1986 PEN International Congress. Mailer and Vidal were scheduled to give the final reading at the end of 1985. Mailer said that “PEN was founded on the attractive notion that writers speak across national boundaries more gracefully and instinctively than governments.”
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85.5

“Writers Assail FBI Seizures in Puerto Rico.” Article by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 2 October, B9. Account of press conference called by the American chapter of PEN to discuss what Mailer called the apparent “outrageous abuse” of Puerto Rican writer Coqui Santaliz’s civil liberties. The apartment of Ms. Santaliz, former president of the Puerto Rican chapter of PEN, was searched, along with 37 others, in connection with the robbery of a Wells Fargo armored truck in 1983. “But what impressed me as singularly shocking,” Mailer said, was that the novel Ms. Santaliz was writing “was taken from her and has not been returned.” Mailer was joined at the conference by Rose Styron, Allen Ginsberg and Frances FitzGerald.
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85.6

“Mailer and Vidal to Wield or Bury Hatchet for PEN.” Article by Kenneth R. Clark. Chicago Tribune, 17 November, Sec. 14, p. 43. Summary of PEN event plans outlined in 85.1, with new quotes from Mailer on the event at which he would be paired with Vidal. “I think there are more important things in the world than a feud between Gore Vidal and myself.” See 77.4–77.9, 85.1, 85.2, 85.8, 85.9, winter and spring 1986 entries, 91.3.
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85.6a

“Mailer and Vidal at PEN Celebration.” Article by Michiko Kakutani. New York Times, 18 November. Summary of the uneventful exchange between Mailer and Vidal at the final PEN Celebration on 17 November in New York city to raise funding for the upcoming PEN International Congress. Mailer suggested that he and Vidal do a reading from Shaw’s “Don Juan in Hell,” and Vidal said no, “They want to see us debate.” See 86.4.
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85.7

“Celebrating Norman Mailer.” Article by Fred Ferretti. New York Times, 22 November, Sec. B, p. 12. Account of the 20 November dinner ceremony at which Mailer received Lord and Taylor’s annual Rose Award for public accomplishment. Mailer is quoted as saying that he had been talking to his wife earlier and “said to her how nice it was that Lord & Taylor is honoring me on my 60th birthday. She smiled at me and said, ‘You’re 62, and it’s not your birthday.’ ”
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85.7a

“American Notes.” Column by Christopher Hitchens. Time Literary Supplement, 29 November. An account of joint appearance of Mailer and Gore Vidal at the Royale Theatre in New York City, the concluding event of ten such readings in support of the American chapter of PEN. Speaking first, Vidal spoke of the dangers of the American empire “with reasonable pith and panache.” Mailer is quoted briefly from what was an unmemorable presentation. He “repeated himself, contradicted himself and abandoned all attempts at timing. He looked like a man who has lost his ticket.” See 85.4a, 86.4.
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85.8

“Mailer Earns Praise for PEN Efforts.” Article-interview by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 23 December, Sec. C, p. 12. Comment on Mailer’s role as organizer and fundraiser for the 12–18 January 1986 PEN Congress. Mailer also reveals that he is “working on a long novel91.26 whose subject I would prefer to keep a secret.” See 85.1, 85.2, 85.6, 85.9, winter and spring 1986 entries.
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85.9

“Censorship to Be a Topic of PEN Congress Panel.” Article by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 24 December, Sec. C, p. 11. Overview of the program of the PEN Congress, with a quote from Mailer on the purpose of the event. See 85.1, 85.2, 85.6, 85.8, winter and spring 1986 entries.
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86.1

“Norman Mailer.” Interview by Carole Wagner Mallory. Elle, January, 36, 38–40. Brief interview notable for Mailer’s explanation of PEN’s opposition to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act, which denies entry into the U.S. to people who have participated in subversive acts, or associated with those who have. He also states that he is “a northern spirit. My name’s Norman, which means northman….Palm trees always leave my stomach feeling flat.” See 85.1, 85.2, 85.6, 85.8, 85.9 and later 1986 entries.
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86.10

“Women at PEN Caucus Demand a Greater Role.” Article by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 17 January, Sec. C, p. 26. First of several articles about a protest, led initially by Betty Friedan, about the underrepresentation of women on various PEN Congress panels. is quoted, as is Friedan. 
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86.11

“PEN Congress Ends with a Protest.” Article by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 18 January, 11. Another article on the issue of underrepresentation of women on PEN Congress panels. , who was both praised and criticized for his work in organizing the conference, called for a vote on removing him: “the votes were solidly in his favor.” Mailer, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer and Cynthia Macdonald (a PEN executive board member) are quoted. 
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86.13

“Shultz Sparks Dispute at Start of International PEN Congress.” Article by Madalynne Reuter. Publishers’ Weekly, 24 January, 18. and Shultz are quoted in this round-up article on the controversy surrounding Secretary of State Shultz’s appearance at the 12 January PEN Congress opening session at the New York Public Library. 
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86.15

“Mailer Offers a PEN Post-Mortem.” Article-interview by Walter Goodman. New York Times, 27 January, Sec. C, p. 24. Summary of the PEN Congress from ’s perspective. He discusses the conference’s theme, “The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State”; his invitation of Secretary of State Shultz; and the way the panels were chosen by standing committees (six of eight headed by women). 
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86.17

“When Worlds Collide: A Report from the PEN Congress.” Article by Geoffrey Stokes. Village Voice, 28 January, 18–22, 24, 26, 54–55. Overview with quotes set off in boxes from , George P. Shultz, Omar Cabezas, Margaret Atwood, Meredith Tax, Elizabeth Janeway, Grace Paley, Günter Grass, Salman Rushdie, John Updike, Sandor Csoóri, Ryszard Kapuscinski and Toni Morrison. 
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86.18

“Bad Manners and Bad Faith.” Article by Maria Margaronis and Elizabeth Pochoda. Nation, 1 February, 116–119. Angry piece on the PEN Congress in which is described as “unruly,” “overbearing,” “authoritarian,” displaying “a fat and fateful rudeness,” “foolish” and so on. The authors reprint the letter protesting Secretary of State Shultz’s appearance. Pochoda is one of the signers. 
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86.1a

“Mailer Sparkplug for Writer’s Congress.” Outlines the fund-raising and organizational work for the upcoming PEN Congress. Mailer is lauded by Gay Talese for coming up with the idea of eight literary evenings to raise needed money: “Without him, and his fund-raising efforts, we would not be having the international congress.” Mailer is also quoted: “I’ve been working on a long novelHarlot’s Ghost (91.26) whose subject I would prefer to keep a secret. At present, there are 400 pages of completed manuscript.”
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86.2

“PEN Invitation to Shultz Criticized.” Article by Herbert Mitgang. New York Times, 10 January, Sec. C, p. 24. Mailer responds to criticism for having invited Secretary of State George P. Shultz to be a welcoming speaker at the PEN conference without the approval of the Board of the American PEN Center. Mailer, president-elect of the center, said, “It seemed self-evident that the PEN Congress would be dignified by the presence of an American Secretary of State. We have also invited distinguished writers from all over the world, including Omar Cabezas of Nicaragua, and we’re hoping the Russians will be there as observers.” None of the Board members called for the invitation to be withdrawn. See 85.1, 85.2, 85.6, 85.8, 85.9 and 1986 entries.
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86.20

“‘The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State’: Two Views.” New York Review of Books, 13 February, 23–25. Consists of ’s 12 January address at the opening of the PEN Congress, and Nadine Gordimer’s statement given on 13 January at the PEN Congress’s panel, “How Does the State Imagine?” See George Steiner’s criticism of the theme: “Language Under Surveillance: The Writer and the State,” New York Times Book Review, 12 January, 12, 36. 
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86.21a

“Pen Men.” Review-essay by Elaine Showalter. London Review of Books, 20 March, 8–9. Showalter opens her review of three books on feminism-masculism by quoting ’s comments about the number of women delegates at the PEN Congress: “There are countries in the world where there are no good women writers.” Mailer tried to explain that he was referring to autocratic countries such as Saudi Arabia, but he was immediately pilloried for sexism. Showalter says Mailer is “an extreme manifestation” of the way many males in the late 20th century “define themselves as artists through a sexual dialectic, creating masculine modes of speaking and writing.” 
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86.22

“The First Sitting.” Article by James Atlas. Vanity Fair, April, 58–62; cover photograph of Kate Mailer as Marilyn Monroe with the blurb: “Mailer’s New Marilyn: It’s His Daughter.” Report on the Actors Studio staging of “Strawhead,” a play by and Richard Hannum adapted from Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15). Accompanied by 86.25. See 73.30, 81.4, 83.11.
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86.25

“Strawhead: An Extract from Act One.” Vanity Fair, April, 63–66. Produced only at Actors Studio, New York, in Boston and in Provincetown, in brief experimental runs, “Strawhead” has never been published. Accompanied by 86.22. See 73.30, 80.15, 81.4, 83.11.
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86.26

“What Makes Writers Run.” Article by Barbara Probst Solomon. Partisan Review 53 (no. 2), 183–189. This number of Partisan Review was on magazine stands on 30 April. Solomon rebuts some of the feminist criticisms of ’s words and deeds at the PEN Congress made in 86.18 and 86.24. 
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86.27

“When PEN Pals Collide.” Article by David Lehman. Partisan Review 53 (no. 2), 190–199. Balanced overview of the PEN Congress, including comment on the media coverage of the event. is quoted throughout. Two other articles on the PEN Congress appear in this number of Partisan Review, by Czeslaw Milosz and Adam Zagajewski, respectively. Mailer is not quoted in either. 
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86.27a

“The Political-Literary Complex.” Article by Carol Iannone. Commentary, June, 64–67. A thoughtful retrospective overview of the PEN conference, with an emphasis on its contentious atmosphere: “Scarcely could a discussion of literature proceed for more than a quarter of an hour, it seemed, without turning sharply and decisively political. Brief excerpt from ’s opening speech are given. 
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86.28

“Throwing Punches: Mailer on Mailer.” Interview by Jennifer L. Farbar. Esquire, June, 238–240, 243–244, 247–250. discusses a string of related topics with the daughter of his friend, Buzz Farbar: machismo, birth control, the 60s, homosexuality and the sexual revolution, with asides on J.F.K., “The White Negro” (57.1) and The Executioner’s Song (79.14). Rpt: 88.6.
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86.29

“Page Six: Filmmakers Beard Norman Mailer.” Column by unidentified writer. New York Post, 30 August, 6. Provides quotes from an unlocated Carole Mallory interview in L.A. magazine on ’s deal with Cannon Films to star, along with his daughter Kate, in Jean-Luc Godard’s version of King Lear, and then direct the movie version of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17). Mailer wrote the screenplays for both films, and both were produced, although Godard didn’t use Mailer’s script for King Lear. See 1986 and 1987 entries.
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86.3

Letter to the Guests of Honor and the PEN Delegates. Program of the 48th International PEN Congress, New York, 11–16 January, 32 pp. Mailer’s 222-word letter of welcome is given in both English and French, as is the entire program. Conference theme: “The Writer’s Imagination and the Imagination of the State.” 
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86.30

“Penned In.” Article by Richard Stern. Photographs by Inge Morath. Critical Inquiry 13 (autumn), 1–32; cover photographs of , Stern, Secretary of State Shultz and Grace Paley. Long first-person account of the major public (and some of the private) debate and discussion at the PEN Congress. Stern gives the best report on Shultz’s speech on the opening day of the PEN Congress, and the only one on Mailer’s argument (with Saul Bellow as witness) with E.L. Doctorow. 
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86.31

“Norman Mailer: The Author as Social Conscience.” Article-interview by Charlotte Buak, Gwen Thomas and Angela R. Dickey. Pencil Press Quarterly 1 (fall), 4, 6–7. talks to the editors of this new magazine after speaking at the University of Florida at Gainesville. Most of his comments concern the writerly life.
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86.32

“He’s Putting His ‘Guys’ on Film.” Article-interview by Gregory Katz. USA Today, 12 November, Sec. D, pp. 1–2. Interviewed on the set of Tough Guys Don’t Dance in Provincetown, Mailer compares filmmaking and writing, and describes his film: “a study of American passions, a horror story, a murder mystery, a comedy and offbeat.” See 84.17, other 1986 and 1987 entries.
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86.34

“‘Three Cheers for Good Marks’: Writers on Their Prizes.” New York Times Book Review, 16 November, 3, 46. Excerpts from the National Book Awards acceptance speeches of William Faulkner, W.H. Auden, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich, Joyce Carol Oates, Gloria Naylor and , who won the 1969 award in the arts and letters category for The Armies of the Night (68.8). His speech provided the title for this piece. The full speech appears in Existential Errands (72.7). See 69.3, 69.4.
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86.35

“‘Tough Guy’ Mailer Shows He Can Dance with the Big Boys: Novelist Directs First Major Film.” Article-interview by Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times, 23 November, 6–8. Another on-the-set interview in Provincetown, perhaps the best. Mailer recalls in detail the arrangement with Cannon Films under which he came to direct the film version of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), and discusses his scripts, his actors, his marriage, his mother, his God and the films made from his novels. Accompanied by an Ebert article-interview, “Prospects are Good for Debra Sandlund,” who plays Patty Lareine in the film. Rpt: 88.6, 86.30 (partial). See other 1986 and 1987 entries.
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86.36

“People: Tough Guys Do Make Movies: Mailer in Provincetown.” Article-interview by G.D.G. Time, 1 December, 58–59. Brief piece, with a few quotes from , which reveals the budget for the film version of 84.17 to be $5 million, and the shooting schedule to be seven weeks. See 1986 and 1987 entries.
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86.37

“Movie Beats Writing.” Article-interview by Tim Miller. Cape Cod Times, 5 December, 1, 15. again compares writing and filmmaking in this piece, which also reports that Mailer’s Commercial Street home was used as Tim Madden’s home in the film version of 84.17. See 1986 and 1987 entries.
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