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95.41

“Picasso Couldn’t Box, but He Could Paint Like Hell, Says Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Bruce Barcott. Seattle Weekly, 25 October, 19. , in Provincetown, is interviewed by telephone in anticipation of his appearance at the Seattle Art Museum on 28 October, where he lectured on Picasso and read from 95.38. He explains how he spent two months in 1962 looking at every page in Christian Zervos’s 33-volume collection of Picasso’s paintings and drawings.
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95.42

Statement on Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab. New York Times Magazine, 29 October, 51. Accompanying a full-page color photograph of Mailer costumed as Ahab is this statement by Mailer: “Many a novelist has a touch of the monomaniac and Ahab is the monster of us all.”
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95.44

“Kindred Spirits: Mailer and Picasso.” Article-interview by Pete Hamill. Art News, November, 208–213. talks about his relationship with the painters of Provincetown and Greenwich Village in this long, easy, Provincetown conversation with Hamill, an old friend, who wrote about Mailer’s influence on him in his memoir, A Drinking Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1994). After Picasso, Hans Hoffman and Andy Warhol are the two artists Mailer says the most about.
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95.45

“Norman Conquest.” Article-interview by Mary Ann Grossman. Saint Paul Pioneer Press, 4 November, “Showtime” Sec., p. 1. Prior to speaking at Macalester College, spoke to Grossman about 95.38. The piece is most memorable for a surprising error: she writes that Mailer spoke of his close relationship with James Joyce; he was referring to James Jones.
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95.46

“Art Attack: Norman Mailer Fires Back at Critics of His Portrait of Picasso.” Article-interview by Mary Voelz Chandler. Rocky Mountain News, 6 November, Sec. D (“Arts and Entertainment”), pp. 5, 7. responds, in general terms, to the art critics who wrote negative reviews of 95.38.
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95.47

“Author to Author: Norman Mailer Talks with Jay McInerney.” Interview. Providence Phoenix, 10 November, Sec. 1, pp. 10–11, 15; cover story. One of the best interviews on Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man (95.38). tells McInerney that he feels “more street smart after I’ve looked at a lot of Picasso drawings or paintings. He understood people so well. He had the gifts of one of the greatest draftsmen who ever lived, but he had the mind of a novelist in a funny way. His eye for character is incredible.” Other matters discussed include John Richardson, Picasso’s view of sex, fame, James Jones, Ernest Hemingway, and the response of reviewers to 95.38. Accompanied by an excerpt from part 6 of the biography, “Gertrude Stein.”
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95.49

“Mailer vs. Picasso at Harvard.” Article-interview by M.R. Montgomery. Boston Globe, 14 November, 77, 82. In Boston to promote 95.38, visits Harvard’s Fogg Museum for the first time since 1943 when he took a course on modern art in the Fogg. He notes that the reviews of 95.38 are “the worst I’ve ever gotten for a book,” which is accurate, although Barbary Shore (51.1) and Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17) received equally bad reviews.
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95.5

“A New Generation at Penn Meets Norman Mailer.” Article by Howard Goodman. Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 March, Sec. B (“Metro”), pp. 1, 4. Report on ’s conversation with the students in Professor Bruce Kuklick’s class, who had just read The Armies of the Night (68.8). Mailer spoke on several topics, including the misrepresentations of history, the possibility of fascism coming to America, the miseries of airplane travel, television, and Lee Harvey Oswald. Several students and Professor Kuklick are also quoted. Rpt: As “Norman Who? Mailer on Campus” in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 28 March, Sec. E (“Lifebeat”), pp. 1–2. See spring 1983 entries, 95.2–95.4, 95.6, 95.7.
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95.50

“Artistic License? Norman Mailer Paints a Controversial Picture of Picasso.” Article-interview by Alan G. Artner. Chicago Tribune, 19 November, Sec. 7 (“Arts and Entertainment”), pp. 1, 20. Artner, art critic for the Tribune, finds fault with ’s methods and conclusions in 95.38, but quotes him fully and fairly on these matters.
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95.51

“At Last, a Norman Conquest.” Article-interview by Alan W. Petrucelli. Cape Cod Times, 20 November, Sec. C, pp. 1–2. again speaks of the painters he knew in Provincetown—Franz Kline, Hans Hoffman, Robert Motherwell and Helen Frankenthaler—and his love of the town in this interview centered on 95.38. “Provincetown,” he says, “may be a joke to the rest of the Cape, but it’s perhaps the most generous small town in America, full of wonderfully goofy aspects and sweet freedom.” Mailer also notes that 95.38 was completed in 1992, but it took three years to obtain the needed permissions.
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95.52

“Self-Propelled: Mailer—with Ego Intact—Looks at Picasso’s Early Years.” Article-interview by John Barron. Chicago Sun-Times, 26 November. Besides commenting on his interest in Picasso’s early life in this piece, discusses political parties, Newt Gingrich, religion in America and the decline of interest in good novels.
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95.53

“Dysfunctionally Literate.” Column by Brad Wieners. Bay Guardian, December, 3. Encountering at a cocktail party on 6 November in San Francisco, Wieners tells him that he just read (in The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower) that he had been forced to change “fuck” to “fug” in The Naked and the Dead (48.2). Mailer explains that he had used “fug” from the outset. See 49.3, 65.21, 68.31, 92.12. See 13.2, 793.
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95.54

“Scholarship Gets Boost from Mailer’s Speech.” Article by unidentified writer. Atkins (Arkansas) Chronicle, 6 December, 1. Visiting the hometown of his wife Norris Church, spoke at Arkansas Tech on 4 December, answering questions on various current events, including the O.J. Simpson trial, the war in Bosnia, welfare reform and the end of the Cold War. He says, “The United States used the Cold War to push the U.S.S.R. into bankruptcy, while President Reagan tripled the U.S. national debt.” Mailer donated his speaking fee to the Francis Gwaltney scholarship fund at Arkansas Tech, where Gwaltney taught before his death in 1981. Gwaltney served in the army with Mailer and was, according to Mailer, his oldest friend. Mailer met his sixth wife, Norris Church, through Gwaltney.
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95.56

Interview by Michael K. Glenday, 21 October 1991; and letter to him, 10 December 1993. In Norman Mailer, by Michael K. Glenday, 130, 138, respectively. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995. Two quotes from one of Mailer’s press conference interviews during a British publicity tour for Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), and one from a later letter, all dealing with the novel and the Cold War.
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95.57

Preface to Writers: Photographs, by Sally Soames, 9. San Francisco: Chronicle Books; London: Deutsch. praises Soames, who uses only available light, in his 454-word preface to this collection of photographs of 83 writers, accompanied by a quote from the work of each. Mailer’s quote is the opening paragraph of Advertisements for Myself (59.13). See Soames’s comments on the writers she photographed, including Mailer, in Lesley White’s article, “Open Books,” (London) Sunday Times Magazine, 7 May.
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95.6

“Does Norman Mailer Know the Way to San Jose?” Article by Kirby F. Smith. Compass (Philadelphia), 30 March, 3. Report on ’s visit to the “Urban Visions” class of Professor Witold Rybczynski at University of Pennsylvania where discussion focused on two books: Jane Jacobs’s The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and Joel Garreau’s Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. See spring 1983 entries, 95.2–95.5, 95.7, 95.12.
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95.7

“The Critic’s Choice: Norman Mailer Talks about Journalism and Millennialism.” Interview by Jorie Green and Tammy Polonsky. Daily Pennsylvanian, 4 April, 3. Three topics dominate this discussion: the millennium, the fact/fiction debate, and the media: “The daily news is a delusion. It’s a dream. The idea that you’re getting something as it’s happening and you know what’s happening is absurd.” See spring 1983 entries, 95.2–95.6, 95.12.
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95.8

“Oswald in the U.S.S.R.: Annals of Surveillance.” New Yorker, 10 April, 56–99. Nonfiction narrative excerpt from Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery (95.16). Rpt: Appearing about a month before 95.16, this excerpt is a much compressed version of parts 2 and 4–9 of volume 1, “Oswald in Minsk with Marina,” with an epilogue from chapter 5, part 8, of volume 2, “Oswald in America,” dealing with Marina Oswald at age 52. It is titled “A Widow’s Elegy” in the book.
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95.8a

“A Pulitzer-Prize Winner Above the ‘Norm.’” Article-interview by Michael Skerker. Brown Daily Herald, 19 April. After a lecture about Lee Harvey Oswald at Brown University, answered questions. Asked about his research trip to Russia with Larry Schiller, he said it was disappointing in a way, because he learned that the KGB was not involved in the assassination of JFK. But he also learned a good deal about Oswald: “I found that he was a remarkable fellow in a way. He was one of the few people in the world who understood the United States and the Soviet Union on a local level. He was a poor worker in both countries and how many people can say that?”
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95.9

“No Ordinary Secret Agent: Mailer Talks about Lee and the KGB.” Interview with Ray Sawhill. Newsweek, 24 April, 60. In this very brief interview on the forthcoming Oswald’s Tale (95.16), says, “I think he did it by himself, but I think he was leaned on by the FBI and CIA, which is why there was that tremendous effort at cover-up.”
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96.2

“Oswald’s Ghost: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Peter DePree. Bloomsbury Review, March-April, 3, 10. reveals who he was with when he first heard J.F.K. had been shot (Norman Podhoretz), and who he was with when he heard Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot (George Plimpton), and his reactions on both occasions. Accompanied by 96.3.
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96.3

“About Picasso.” Interview by Peter DePree. Bloomsbury Review, March-April, 3, 10–11. Discussion of ’s sources, his knowledge of painters and modern art, Picasso’s sexuality and other matters related to Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man (95.38). Accompanied by 96.2 and DePree’s positive review of 95.38.
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96.4

“Mailer and Me.” Memoir by Barry H. Leeds. Connecticut Review 18 (spring), 5–12. A long-time scholar remembers his meetings with Mailer over 30 years, and quotes from their wide-ranging conversations and correspondence. Rpt: A Moveable Beast: Scenes from My Life. By Barry Leeds. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2014.
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96.5

“Searching for Deliverance.” Esquire, August, 54–61, 118–127. Slugged on the cover as “Norman Mailer: Armies of the Right.” Essay-interview with Patrick J. Buchanan. Long, thoughtful discussion of the populist roots of the Right and Left and the possibilities of an alliance between factions of both against corporate excess and big government. See 68.8.
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96.5a

“Party of Parties.” Article-interview by Neil Steinberg. Chicago Sun-Times, 28 August, 8. At an Art Institute party for George magazine, mingled with celebrities, including John F. Kennedy, Jr., the magazine’s publisher, Eunice Shriver, Aretha Franklin, William Kennedy, Jerry Springer, and Kevin Costner. While speaking about Hillary Clinton, Mailer said, “I have nothing against strong women,” noting that all of his six wives fit in this category.
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96.6

Statement on F. Scott Fitzgerald. In F. Scott Fitzgerald: 24 September 1996 Centenary Celebration, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, 34. Columbia, S.C.: Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina, 24 September. and 26 other writers, including Margaret Atwood, Vance Bourjaily, Don DeLillo, James Dickey, Annie Dillard, William Maxwell, Budd Schulberg and Tony Tanner contributed statements on the man and the work in this tribute, limited to 750 softcover presentation copies. Mailer’s full statement:
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96.7

Comment on William Burroughs. In With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, by Victor Bockris, xxii. Revised edition. New York: St. Martin’s, November. Brief approving comment by on Burroughs. The first edition (New York: Seaver Books, distributed by Grove Press, 1981) was not examined. See 62.24, 65.1, 65.13, 81.21, 92.12, 98.14a.
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96.8

“War of the Oxymorons.” George, November, 128–139, 164, 166, 168–170, 172–173. ’s first appearance in George. Nonfiction narrative on the Republican and Democratic conventions of 1996. Rpt: Observer Life (London), 10 November, 6–7, 9–10, 12, 14–15, 17–18, 20–21, 23–24; 98.7 (partial), complete in 13.1. See 76.5, 97.1.
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96.9

Statement on John Dos Passos. In “John Dos Passos: A Centennial Commemoration.” In Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1996, edited by Samuel W. Bruce and L. Kay Webster, 173. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, Gale Research. In 44 words Mailer praises Dos Passos’s novel U.S.A. as the “most successful portrait of America in the first half of the twentieth century.”
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97.1

“How the Pharaoh Beat Bogey.” George, January, 54–60, 82–86. Issued with two different covers; one titled “Special Collector’s Edition” with a black-and-white cover photograph of Claudia Schiffer; the other cover has a color photograph of her. Nonfiction narrative on the 1996 presidential campaign. Rpt: 98.7 (partial). See 76.5, 96.8.
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97.10

“Mailer’s Gospel Tempts Critics.” Article-interview by John Barron. Chicago Sun-Times, 24 April, 35, 39. Interviewed by telephone from his home in Brooklyn Heights, spoke about forthcoming response to 97.13. Accompanied by Tom Sheridan’s mainly positive review and 97.9.
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97.11

Quotations. In The Last Party: Scenes from My Life with Norman Mailer, by Adele Mailer, passim. New York: Barricade Books, late April. Mailer, who is quoted from memory by the author, his second wife, disputed the accuracy and tone of this memoir. See 97.23c.
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97.11a

“A Conversation with Norman Mailer and Dr. Christopher M. Leighton.” Undated, but obviously from the period just after the publication of The Gospel According to the Son (97.13) on 2 May. In this transcribed telephone interview, Leighton, a theologian, presses on his motives for writing the narrative and what effects his retelling will have on Jews and Christians. Along the way, Mailer reveals a good deal about his own Jewishness, including his Jewish and Yiddish language study and his reading of Graetz’s five-volume history of the Jews. Important interview.
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97.12

“The Gospel According to Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Stephanie Schorow. Boston Herald, 2 May. comments on 97.13 in this brief interview, including a comment on the Gospels: “The writing is extraordinary and intensely poetic and the great lines of Jesus remain the great lines. But a good deal of writing in between was rather pedestrian.”
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97.13

Dedication: “To Susan, Danielle, Elizabeth, Kate, Michael, Stephen, Maggie, Matthew, and John Buffalo.”
Acknowledgments: “I would like to give an acknowledgment to my wife, Norris; to my assistant, Judith McNally; to my friends Michael Lennon and Robert Lucid; to Veronica Windholz; and to James and Gaynell Davis, who all offered signal contributions to this work. And not least, to Jason Epstein, Joy de Menil, and Andrew Wylie.”
Rpt: All of 97.13 was published in the (New York) Daily News (97.6) in 19 parts before book publication. Advance excerpts also appeared in the New York Times (97.8) and the Chicago Sun-Times (97.9). Seven excerpts are reprinted in The Time of Our Time (98.7). See 1997 entries.
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97.14

“The Gospel According to Norman.” Article-interview by Margaria Fichtner. Miami Herald, 4 May, Sec. I (“Arts”), pp. 1–2. Interviewed at Random House in New York, gives full measure in this piece, speaking of the myriad aesthetic, philosophical and historical issues he faced in writing 97.13, which he says he wrote “for those people who are like myself, who don’t have a clear idea of what Jesus is.”
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97.15

“Mailer Agrees His ‘Gospel’ Is an Audacious Book.” Article-interview by Nicholas A. Basbanes. (Quincy, Mass.) Patriot Ledger, 10 May. In this relatively brief piece tells Basbanes that his greatest risk in writing 97.13 was the prospect of “ridicule and dismissal as a person playing the fool, exactly the sort of risk that all writers face whenever they want to do something particularly ambitious.” Sometimes truncated, this piece also appeared in the following newspapers: (Worcester, Mass.) Sunday Telegram (11 May); Knoxville News-Sentinel (18 May); Grand Rapids Press (18 May); (Toledo) Blade (18 May); (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger (25 May); (Allentown, Pa.) Morning Call (25 May); (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal (1 June); Salt Lake Tribune (8 June).
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97.15a

“Why Mailer Decided to Play Jesus.” Article-interview by Bill Broadway. Washington Post, 10 May, B7. explains at some length his perceptions of Christianity as a young man: “I always had this nose-against-the glass feeling that those Christians have something I’m curious about.” He also talks about his experience talking about the Old Testament at the Freewill Baptist church of his father-in-law in Arkansas. Important article.
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97.16

“The Gospel According to Norman.” Article-interview by Doug Riggs. Providence Journal, 11 May. Based on a telephone interview in early May with 20 book reviewers and editors, this brief piece adds little to earlier articles on 97.13. See 97.18, 97.20, 97.21.
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97.17

“Courage in Profiles: Attacked by Critics for His Hubris, Norman Mailer Nonetheless Tackles the Tough Topics.” Article-interview by Paul Galloway. Chicago Tribune, 12 May, Sec. 5 (“Tempo”), pp. 1, 5. In Chicago to promote 97.13, talks to Galloway and appears on WGN radio’s “Extension 720” with interviewer Milt Rosenberg. Again he discusses the first person point of view used in 97.13, and his admiration for the Jesus story, which he calls “the keel of western civilization.”
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97.17a

“Mailer Uncensored.” Article by Mark Fisk. Herald-Palladium (St. Joseph, MI), 17 May, 1A, 4a. defended his latest novel, The Gospel According to the Son (97.13) at the Dowagiac Dogwood Fine Arts Festival in a 90-minute monologue. He said that his wife, Norris, told him “You’ve done some stupid things in your life, but this is the stupidest.” He replied that he was now in his 70s and could “take some chances.” He also excoriated capitalism, saying that “the men of Mammon are running the world. I’m just enough of a Marxist still to see that money leeches out every other value out of human affairs.”
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97.18

“Latest Retelling of Jesus’ Life Is by ‘Reckless Talent.’” Column by Ina Hughes. Knoxville News-Sentinel, 18 May. ’s brief remarks in this column seem to be taken from the same telephone conversation reported in 97.16. See 97.20, 97.21.
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97.19a

“Friendly Legend: Tributes to Ginsberg.” Rolling Stone, 9 May, 40–43. Along with William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Gregory Corso, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono and several others, offers a brief valedictory comment on the late poet, lauding his courage at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. See 68.18.
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97.2

“Narrator of Mailer’s Next Novel: Jesus.” Article-interview by Dinitia Smith. New York Times, 4 February, Sec. B (“Living Arts”), p. 7. First report on ’s forthcoming novel The Gospel According to the Son (97.13). In a statement quoted by Smith, Mailer says,
Carol Schneider, director of publicity at Random House, and Jason Epstein, Mailer’s longtime editor, are also quoted in this piece.
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97.21

“The Gospel…according to Mailer.” Article-interview by Julie Irwin. (Elmira, N.Y.) Star-Gazette, 20 August, Sec. 5 (“Twin Tiers Life”), p. 5. Still another report based on a telephone interview with . Accompanied by a brief excerpt (the miracle of the loaves and fishes) from 97.13. See 97.16, 97.18, 97.20.
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97.21a

Letter to the Editor. Ann Shayne, editor, “Meet the Author,” Book Page, 29 August. answers question about The Gospel According to the Son (97.13). To the question, “What one thing would like to learn to do,” he answers, “Levitate.” Rpt: 13.3.
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