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91.50

“A Talk with Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by W. David Atwood. Book-of-the-Month Club Book News, December, 11. Brief piece in which says, “It was my intention to write a novel that would give the reader a good and detailed sense of what it might be like to live and work in the CIA.”
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91.51

“A Letter from Norman Mailer.” In Hockney’s Alphabet, edited by Stephen Spender, 17–19. Drawings by David Hockney. New York: Random House in Association with the American Friends of AIDS Crisis Trust. and 25 other writers provide reflections on the letters of the alphabet. Mailer is given “F” and says, “I am sure you are aware what a compliment you are paying me with that letter—ahhh, the fonts of fucking.”
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91.52

Foreword to Presences: Photographs of Heaton Hall, by Beverly Anoux Pabst. Torino, Italy, Stamperia Artistic Nazionale, 1991. Softcover, no pagination. In his evocative three-page foreword, calls Pabst’s 45 photographs of this empty (and later razed) resort hotel in the Berkshires “the spookiest book of photographs I have seen,” and “one of the more eloquent.” He also makes the claim that “in searching for the occult, a photograph can be of more use than a painting.”
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91.6

“Norman Mailer: Harlot’s Ghost, Part III: In the Shadow of Nuclear War, CIA Man Harry Hubbard Risks Death in Cuba.” Rolling Stone, 22 August, 46–47, 49–52, 79–80, 82, 84. Excerpt from novel of same name (91.26). Illustrated by Daniel Zakroczemski. Rpt: Appearing five weeks before the novel, this excerpt (taken with a few very minor changes from “The Alpha Manuscript,” part 6, “Mongoose, 1961–1963: Miami, Washington, Paris,” most of chapter 19 and all of chapter 20) deals with Hubbard, Dix Butler and the invasion of Cuba in 1962.
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91.7

“Elusive Mailer ‘Older, Wiser’ on Eve of New Novel’s Release.” Article-interview by Carrie Izard Richardson. Boston Sunday Herald, 15 September, 31, 49. Interviewed in Provincetown, explains his motives and intentions for Harlot’s Ghost (91.26): “Because of my left politics all these years, I never really had conversations and dialogues with these people [the CIA]—and they’ve been running the country. So I thought about them….‘What’s good about them, what’s not good about them, in what ways can I respect them, in what ways can I bring in an honest, moral judgment on them.’” Mailer also notes that he is now at work on a short book about Pablo Picasso, “a biographical sketch, an interpretation of his character” (95.38).
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91.8

“From Harlot’s Ghost.” Paris Review, no. 120 (fall), 95–105. Excerpt from novel of same name (91.26). Rpt: Appearing at approximately the same time as the novel, this excerpt (taken with three or four small changes from “The Alpha Manuscript,” part 1, “Early Years, Early Training,” chapters 8 and 9) deals with Hubbard’s CIA course on world communism.
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91.9

“Harlot’s Lady.” Partisan Review 53 (fall), 607–619. Excerpt from 91.26. Rpt: Appearing at approximately the same time as the novel, this excerpt (taken with no changes from “The Alpha Manuscript,” part 1, “Early Years, Early Training,” chapter 5) deals with Hubbard’s first meeting with Hadley Kittredge Gardiner in Maine and her explanation of her Alpha-Omega dualist theory of personality.
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92.1

“Mailer’s Many Lives.” Article-interview by Julia Braun Kessler. Life: The World and I, January, 332–339. comments on Harlot’s Ghost (91.26) in this piece, which contains several errors, the most notable being that Mailer served four years as a rifleman in WWII (he served 25 months in the army); and that The Naked and the Dead (48.2) was accepted by Little, Brown (they turned it down). Mailer says that his
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92.10

“By Heaven Inspired: Republican Convention Revisited.” New Republic, 12 October, 12, 24, 26–27, 30–35. Nonfiction narrative on the August Republican Convention in Houston. Except for his poem “Gladiators: For Hemingway” (74.16), this is ’s only contribution to the New Republic. His report on the 1992 Democratic Convention has never been published. Rpt: 98.7 (partial), complete in 13.1. See 76.5.
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92.11a

“Author Mailer Offers His Views on Life.” Article-interview by Denise Pavloski. Citizens’ Voice (Wilkes-Barre, Penn.), 20 November, 1. 37. At a Wilkes University evening event, read from his October 1992 article in New Republic (92.10) on the Republican Party’s convention. In it, he praises Barbara Bush as the Queen of America, but with a common touch. He then discussed the AIDS issue debated at the convention: “People with HIV have not entered some alienated state of being, they are human.” At the end of the evening, he spoke of the difficulties of novel-writing. “It is very hard to write a truly good novel. It’s one of the most difficult acts known to mankind.” To succeed, he continued, a writer needs two key elements, luck and character. Recalling, no doubt, his devastation when his second novel, Barbary Shore (51.1) was lambasted by reviewers, he said, “Character is terribly important to recover from disappointment.”
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92.11b

“Mailer Older, Not Mellower.” Article-interview by Kent Jackson. Hazleton (Penn.) Standard-Speaker, 20 November. Another report on ’s speech at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The most notable quote came in answer to a question about whether he was still negative about women. “I have five daughters and have been married six times. The only trouble I’ve had with women is I started out with an extraordinarily elevated view of them. I’ve come to the conclusion that women are no better than men, but I have nothing against them.”
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92.11c

“Mailer’s Older, But Still Breathing Fire.” Article-interview by George Smith. Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Penn.), 20 November, 1A, 12A. A third report on ’s Wilkes University speech, where he was introduced by J. Michael Lennon, who called him “the most prolific writer since Henry James.” Mailer spoke about his recent trip to Russia and said he found the country to have poor technology and was not a military threat, adding that the U.S. “has been fighting a Cold War for 40 years. And it should have been over long ago.” Asked in the Q-and-A period if he would retract any of the millions of words he’d written, he said, “When Picasso was asked if he had ever painted any bad pictures, he said, ‘Some are better than others, but there are no bad Picassos.’ That’s how I feel about it.” He also spoke about his novel, Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), published a year earlier. It ends with the words, “To be continued.” Asked if he would finish it, he said, “I’m working on it, but I’m not writing just yet.”
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92.12

Comments. In Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius, by Edward de Grazia, passim. New York: Random House. De Grazia quotes from ’s published work, from his 1965 court testimony on behalf of William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch, from his comments on Burroughs at the 1962 Edinburgh conference on the current state of the novel, and from interviews he conducted with Mailer for this book, a comprehensive and brilliant study. Mailer’s longest quote is an overview of the obscenity problems he faced with The Naked and the Dead (48.2), An American Dream (65.7) and The Armies of the Night (68.8). See 49.3, 62.24, 65.1, 65.13, 65.21, 68.31, 69.82, 81.21, 95.53, 96.7, 98.14a.
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92.14

“Norman Mailer: The Hubris of the American Vision.” Interview by Eric James Schroeder. In Vietnam, We’ve All Been There: Interviews with American Writers. Edited by Eric James Schroeder, 90–115. Westport, CT: Praeger. One of 11 interviews in this collection, including those with Michael Herr, Robert Stone, Bobbie Ann Mason, Tim O’Brien, and Larry Heinemann. ’s interview contains extended discussion of the Vietnam War, WWII, and three of Mailer’s books: The Naked and the Dead (48.2), Why Are We in Vietnam? (67.15), and The Armies of the Night (68.8). Rpt: excerpts in 03.7.
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92.1a

“Waiting for the Big One.” Article-interview by Gregory Feely. Million: The Magazine about Popular Fiction (U.K.), no. 7 (January-February), 38–42. The focus of Feeley’s comments and questions in this important piece is the many novels planned but did not write, including the “big novel” he worked on in the late 1950s, the sequels to Ancient Evenings (83.18), the biker novel he started in 1966, and an autobiographical novel which had its origins, Mailer says, in “the saga of the Mailer family back in Russia with my grandfather as I imagined him. He abandoned it after reading the novels of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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92.2

“Chronicle: David Frost Goes a Round with Norman Mailer.” Column by Marvine Howe. New York Times, 17 January, Sec. B, p. 6. Consists of a couple of brief quotes taken from the transcript of ’s television interview with David Frost. When Frost suggested that Mailer was “a sort of literary Frank Sinatra,” Mailer laughed and said, “That’s a remark that will make Sinatra as unhappy as it makes me.” “Talking with David Frost” aired on PBS a week later on 24 January. See 92.3.
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92.2a

“Controversial Norman Mailer Invades ‘David Frost. Article by Jon Burlingame. Newport (R.I.) Daily News, 24 January, C-9. Advance report of ’s comments on the David Frost 24 January television program. Addressing Japanese economic strength and advertising, Mailer said “In America, we’re so good at advertising and promotion . . . The attitude has been, ‘Just make anything. Just get it out there, and we’ll sell it for you.’ . . . The real problem we have vis-a-vis the Japanese—the reason their products are better—is that they were happily immune to much of advertising for many, many years.” See 92.2, 92.3.
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92.2b

“Norman Mailer: An Interview.” By Helmut Sorge. Der Speigel, 19 January, 1, 12. The interview focuses on America’s social and cultural decline. says that the end of the Cold War “is going to introduce some interesting problems for capitalism that demand a fundamental reassessment because American capitalism has lost a wonderful old friend,” i.e., communism.
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92.3

“TV Weekend: Mailer Plugs Himself Instead of His Book.” Article by Walter Goodman. New York Times, 24 January, Sec. C, p. 28. Another advance report on ’s 24 January television interview with David Frost. Goodman provides a few quotes and a summary of topics: the stabbing of his second wife, Adele, the Jack Abbott affair, his notion of an embattled God, feminism, sex, AIDS, the 60s, and American politics. Of the interview, one of the very best Mailer has given on television, Goodman says: “There is a high intelligence operating along with a sometimes original perspective; at his most engaging, he manages to be off the wall and on the mark at the same time.” See 92.2.
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92.4

“Footfalls in the Crypt.” Vanity Fair, February, 124–129, 171. Review of J.F.K., directed by Oliver Stone. One of two movie reviews by Mailer. Rpt: JFK: The Book of the Film, The Documented Screenplay, by Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar. New York: Applause Books, 1992. See 73.12, 92.7.
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92.5

“Mailer Visits CIA and Finds He’s in Friendly Territory. Really.” Article-interview by Elaine Sciolino. New York Times, 3 February, Sec. A, p. 10. Report of ’s visit to the CIA in Washington where he gave a standing-room-only lecture to 500 officials, and then later met with top officials in the private conference room of Robert M. Gates, CIA Director. Various CIA officials are quoted on the accuracy of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), and Mailer tells Sciolino that with the end of the Cold War, “the CIA can get out of the beartrap of ideology and begin to provide serious and needed intelligence on the rest of the world.”
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92.6

“Norman Mailer Blames Reagan for Economy.” Article by Jack Crager. The Park Slope Reader, 28 February–5 March. Report of a 20 February meeting of the Brooklyn Heights Association at which spoke and answered questions from the audience. His comments ranged from topics such as the horrors of modern architecture, to the Cold War and Russia, to the Democratic presidential candidates.
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92.7

“What Debt Does Hollywood Owe to Truth.” Article by William Grimes. New York Times, 5 March, Sec. C (“Arts”), pp. 15, 22. Report of a 3 March panel debate at Town Hall in New York, convened under the auspices of several educational and cultural organizations, to discuss “the duty of art to history, fiction to fact.” Victor Navasky moderated the panel consisting of , Nora Ephron, Edward Jay Epstein and Oliver Stone, whose film, J.F.K., was the centerpiece. Mailer, “who embraced, perhaps embodied, the historical complexities and ambiguities heaped up throughout the evening,” spoke both of J.F.K.’s assassination (“the mind-stultifying myth of the lone assassin”), and Stone’s film (“should be seen not as history but myth,” the story of “a huge and hideous event in which the gods warred, and a god fell”). See 92.4.
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92.8

“Earl and Lyndon: An Imaginary Conversation.” Vanity Fair, April, 200–203, 260. Illustrated by Philip Burke. One-act play, a conversation between Chief Justice Earl Warren and President Lyndon B. Johnson, shortly after J.F.K.’s assassination. ’s final contribution to Vanity Fair as writer-in-residence. See 59.9, 91.1.
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92.9

Preface to The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories, by Carl Oglesby, 9. New York: New American Library, May, softcover. In 189 words, Mailer praises Oglesby for his “crucial” contribution to illuminating the J.F.K. case.
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93.1

“Chronicle: Mailer Is Presenting ‘Don Juan in Hell’ with an All-Star Literary Cast.” Article by unidentified writer. New York Times, 9 February, Sec. B, p. 6. Report on upcoming (15 February) reading at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall of “Don Juan in Hell,” which is a large part of the third act of George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. (standing in for the ill Kurt Vonnegut) as the Commander, Susan Sontag as Dona Ana, Gay Talese as Don Juan, and Gore Vidal as the Devil comprised the cast. Mailer conceived of and directed this one-time benefit performance for the Actors Studio in New York. The event was also homage to the 1951 reading of “Don Juan” at Carnegie by Charles Boyer, Charles Laughton, Agnes Moorehead and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. See 93.2 and Bruce Weber’s “The Devil and the Commander,” New York Times, 19 February, Sec. B, p. 2.
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93.2

“Satanic Verses: Literary Lions.” Article by Philip Gourevitch. New York, 15 February, 20. A second report on the staged reading of “Don Juan in Hell” at Carnegie Hall. , Gore Vidal and Gay Talese are quoted. Mailer says, “I know Gore well enough to know the Devil would be a role that would appeal to him, as it has all along.” Vidal answers, “I’ll take Norman’s compliment; I’ll play the Devil. I will make that Devil, that Lucifer, so noble that he will rise above all of the towers of Manhattan in that glorious evening.” See 93.1.
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93.2a

“On Picasso, Two Writers and an Editor on the Spot.” Article-interview by Sarah Lyall. New York Times, 7 July, C13. Account of the problem faced by Jason Epstein of Random House in editing Picasso books by Mailer and the authorized biographer, John Richardson. Mailer said, “I offered to move publishers for one book,” which he did, solving the problem. Richardson called Mailer’s books a “scissors-and-paste job.” See 93.5.
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93.3

“Chapter Two: In Which Author Norman Mailer Offers Up Drawings He Says Exhibit Not a Lot of Talent, but Plenty of Flair.” Article-interview by Hamilton Kahn. Cape Cod Times, 23 July, Sec. C (“Capestyle”), pp. 1, 3. provides commentary on his line drawings, which were shown at the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown through 3 August as a fundraiser for the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Mailer donated half of the proceeds from the sale of 25 of his drawings to the Center, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary. Mailer’s inspiration was the work of Pablo Picasso, whose work he had analyzed in a completed but unpublished book (95.38). “I can’t draw; I certainly can’t paint, and I have no illusions that either one is feasible for me. But what I could do was just sort of let my hand, in a sense, lead me—that is, draw without preconception.” The article also notes that Mailer is at work on a nonfiction book “about Lee Harvey Oswald in the Soviet Union” (95.16). See 93.4, 93.5.
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93.4

“Mailer’s Latest Lines: The Well-known Author Makes His Debut as a Visual Artist in Provincetown.” Article-interview by Robert Taylor. Boston Globe (“Living/Arts”), 23 July, 39, 44. A second report on the exhibition of Mailer’s drawings in Provincetown. Mailer speaks about his artistic inclinations, but says more about his completed but unpublished biography of the young Picasso (95.38), then titled “Pablo and Fernande: A Portrait of Picasso as a Young Artist.” Doubleday was then expected to publish the book (Atlantic Monthly Press finally did), because Random House was the publisher of Picasso’s authorized biographer, John Richardson. See 93.3, 93.5, 94.8.
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93.5

“Picasso Biographer in a Blue Period: Has Mailer Painted Him into a Corner?” Article-interview by Doris Athineos. New York Observer, 30 August–6 September, 1, 23. Account of the dispute between and John Richardson, authorized biographer of Pablo Picasso, over Mailer’s desire to quote from the first volume of Richardson’s biography and Richardson’s refusal to let him. Mailer says that he had written “a one-volume interpretive biography,95.38 and I have things to say about Picasso that will open new arguments—that’s my hope.” Besides Mailer and Richardson, Jason Epstein, Random House editor of both, is quoted, as is Nan Talese, who supported Mailer, and Robert Rosenblum, an art history professor, who supported Richardson. See 93.2a, 93.3, 93.4.
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93.6

“The Best Move Lies Very Close to the Worst.” Esquire, October, 60–62, 64, 186. Essay on boxing and ’s relationship with Ryan O’Neal, with appearances by José Torres and Sylvester Stallone. Rpt: 98.7, 13.1.
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93.7

“Does Fashion Matter?” Symposium, edited by Eric P. Nash. New York Times Magazine, 24 October, 46, 52, 58, 64, 72. As part of this issue, “How Fashion Broke Free: A Special Report on a Half-Century of Fashion in the Times,” 56 individuals were asked “Does fashion matter?” Some of those joining in answering were: Roy Blount Jr., Rev. Al Sharpton, Betty Friedan, Joan Rivers, Liz Smith, Gay Talese, David Dinkins and Susan Faludi. Mailer’s reply: “I have the uneasy feeling that fashion matters a good deal but in all the years I’ve been asking myself how and why, my questions remain more lively than my findings.”
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93.8

“Big Dealy: Dallas Postcard.” Article by Doug Smith. New Republic, 13 December, 11–12. Report on the Third Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy (ASK) held in Dallas in late November 1992, including quotes from ’s keynote address. Smith notes that Mailer is working on a new book on the assassination, published as Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (95.16).
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93.8b

Confessions of a Raving, Unconfined Nut: Misadventures in the Counter-Culture. New York: Simon and Schuster. Memoir by Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, which contains several accounts of meetings with , and Mailer’s ward, Jeanne Johnson. See 62.21.
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93.9

Letter to Salman Rushdie. In The Rushdie Letters: Freedom to Speak, Freedom to Write, edited by Steve MacDonogh in association with Article 19 [of the United Nations Charter], p. 73. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. See 89.2–89.5, 89.8. Rpt: 14.3.
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94.1

“Who Are You?” Article-interview by James Baron. New York Times, 13 February, Sec. 9 (“Style”), pp. 1, 7. In the wake of a national New York Times/CBS poll that asked 1,136 adults to describe themselves in one word, 26 “prominent people,” including , were asked the same question. Some of the others were former mayors of New York Ed Koch (“candid”) and David Dinkins (“caring”), Mary Gordon, novelist (“seeing”), David Lynch, film director (“confused”) and Camille Paglia, feminist social critic (“ambition”). Mailer’s answer: “Improvisational.” He continued, saying, “In a time when all ideologies…have significantly failed us as guides to a reasonable inner life, it helps to treat each situation before us as novel, just born, without guide or precedent.”
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94.2

Letter to the editor. New Yorker, 18 April, 10. responds to a comment by Pauline Kael in the 21 March issue that he once offered to butt heads with her. He says if he did, it was a joke. “You have to feel kinship with somebody to butt his head.”
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94.4

“On Eddie’s First Collection of Stories.” Provincetown Arts 10 (July), 59. ’s 1977 blurb for The Wine Cellar, a collection of stories by his late friend, Eddie Bonetti, is included in a memorial article. Mailer says that the collection “is a work about Italians living in America that begins where The Godfather ends,” and compares Bonetti’s prose with that of Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck.
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