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48.11

“A Credo for the Living.” National Guardian, 18 October. Article dealing with postwar Europe, anti-Russian hysteria in the U.S., and the 1948 Henry Wallace campaign. See 48.9, 74.20. See Cedric Belfrage and James Aronson, Something to Guard: The Stormy Life of the National Guardian. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978. Rpt: 13.1.
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48.12

“Rugged Times.” Article-interview [by Lillian Ross]. New Yorker, 23 October, 25. Mailer discusses the Wallace campaign, and 48.2, which he says “offers a good deal of hope.” According to Mailer, “propositions” should be “proportions” in penultimate sentence. Contains comment on 48.2 repeated from 48.8. The interview marked the beginning of Mailer’s lifelong friendship with Lillian Ross. Rpt: 88.6.
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48.13

“Books I Have Liked.” Preference poll of 40 well-known writers concerning their recent reading. New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, 5 December. Mailer lists three books: The Castle by Franz Kafka; Jennie Gerhardt by Theodore Dreiser; and Howards End by E.M. Forster. Seven of the 40 polled—Bartley Crum, James Hilton, Richard Lauterbach, Sinclair Lewis, Richard Match, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Irwin Shaw—named The Naked and the Dead (48.2). Only two other titles came close: Graham Greene’s The Heart of the Matter and Robert E. Sherwood’s Roosevelt and Hopkins, both with five votes. The effusive praise of Sinclair Lewis for the novel, given in an interview with Sylvia B. Richmond (Chelsea [Mass.] Record, 2 October, 5), is worth quoting in its entirety:
Advertisements for Mailer’s books carried this last phrase for many years. Mailer received the same kind of accolade in the New York Times, also on 5 December. Emmett Dedmon (Chicago Sun-Times), Lewis Gannett (New Herald Tribune), John Henry Jackson (San Francisco Chronicle), Sterling North (New York Post), Charles Poore (New York Times), Fredric Melcher (Publishers’ Weekly), Orville Prescott (New York Times), Charles Rolo (Atlantic), and Karl Schriftgiesser (Newsweek) all listed the book as one of the top 10 books of the year. Jacques Barzun (Harper’s), Norman Cousins (Saturday Review) and Lon Tinkle (Dallas News) did not. The 13 December Newsweek listed 48.2 as one of the top four books of the year, along with Sherwood’s Roosevelt and Hopkins, Winston Churchill’s The Gathering Storm and Greene’s The Heart of the Matter.
The attack on Mailer in Life (16 August) is also worth mentioning as a harbinger of 50 years of preponderantly negative reviews from the Time-Life organization. In a full-page editorial, Mailer was criticized for “slumming” in 48.2, for presenting an America in the “Time Machine” portions of the novel “just as ugly, arid, boring and uncomfortable as a jungle campaign.” Mailer, the editorial continues, “seems to tell us…that such purposes as marrying and procreating and raising a family or mastering an art or a profession or building a business or beating the Japs are without value to anybody now living.” The novel was later referred to in a Life editorial (16 April 1951) as “insidious slime.” Mailer was immensely pleased when his third wife, Lady Jeanne Campbell, Henry Luce’s quondam mistress, told him that Luce “suffered a bit” when he learned of her relationship with Mailer. See 13.2, 295.
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48.2

Republished in a signed leather-bound edition with one-page preface, “A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer.” Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, 1979 (79.36). Dedication and acknowledgment: “To my Mother and Bea. I would like to thank William Raney, Theodore S. Amussen, and Charles Devlin for the aid and encouragement given me at various times in the writing of this novel.”
The novel received a “Page One Award” from the New York Newspaper Guild (CIO affiliate) on 20 May 1949 and was chosen as one of the four best books of 1948 by Newsweek (13 December). Several prominent critics nominated the novel for the Pulitzer Prize in the Saturday Review's annual Pulitzer Prize poll (30 April 1949, 23), and the Associated Press named Mailer “Man of the Year” in Literature, as reported in the 31 December Asbury Park Evening News. Finally, it was nominated for the Gutenberg Award, given to “the book which most progressively influenced American thought in 1948.” The novel was on the New York Times bestseller list for a total of 63 weeks, until summer 1949. The novel's title was first used for an unpublished play about an insane asylum based on a one-week job Mailer held at a Boston asylum in the summer of 1942. 
Rpt: 48.1, 98.6 (new edition, with new introduction), 98.7 (partial). See other 1948 entries, 49.3, 65.21, 68.31, 74.18, 74.20, 76.21, 92.12, 95.53 and, passim, in 59.13; and Mailer's recollections in 03.7.
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48.3

"The Author". Article-interview by R.G. Saturday Review, 8 May, 10. This profile with brief comments from Mailer (on problems of characterization, his early jobs, the poverty of American letters), accompanies Maxwell Geismar's highly laudatory and influential review. Saturday Review was the first magazine to give Mailer a cover story; a drawing of Mailer by Hal McIntosh based on the jacket photo of 48.2 is on the cover of this issue. See 48.8.
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48.4

"Life-View". Book Find News [July], edited by George Braziller, 6. Essay on 48.2 (a Book Find Club selection), including Mailer's plea that it be read "as a novel by a young man who immodestly or not has tried to compound his experience and imagination into something more complex than he could render in speech or by an essay".
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48.7

“The Naked Are Fanatics and the Dead Don’t Care.” Article-interview by Louise Levitas. New York Star, 22 August, Sec. M, pp. 3-5. Shortly after returning from Europe, Mailer discusses how he used his Army experience for 48.2, and the “growing hysteria” about a war with Russia. Longest interview given by Mailer until 1955. Accompanied by excerpt from 48.2. Rpt: 88.6.
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48.9

“Do Professors Have Rights?” New York Post, 8 October, 5, 34. Article on Indiana professor who was dismissed for his association with 1948 presidential candidate Henry Wallace. Mailer campaigned for Wallace upon his return from France on 21 July. See 48.11, 74.20, 13.2, 119-13.
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49.1

“The Waldorf Conference.” Article by Dwight Macdonald. Politics 6 (winter), 32A-32D. Macdonald quotes Mailer’s 26 March statement to the March 25–27 conference concerning the state capitalism of Russia, the monopoly capitalism of the U.S. and the futility of the conference. Compare with Mailer’s remembrance of the conference in Advertisements for Myself (59.13), 409–10; a red-baiting article in Life, 4 April, 39–43. See also 13.2, 110-11.
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49.2

“ ’48’s Nine.” Interview by Rochelle Girson. Saturday Review, 12 February, 12-14. Brief interviews with nine young authors: Mailer, Truman Capote, Irwin Shaw, William Gardner Smith, John Cobb, Ross Lockridge Jr., Hollister Noble, Ruby Redinger and Merle Miller.
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49.2a

“Panel Discussions of the Cultural Conference Delegates Cover a Wide Range of Subjects.” Article by an unidentified writer. New York Times, 27 March 1949, 44-45. Balanced overview of the conference, including an excerpt from Mailer’s speech, which he began by saying, “I have come here as a Trojan horse.”
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49.2b

“Guardian Reports on the Peace Conference Panels,” Article by Cedric Belfrage. National Guardian, 4 April 1949, 9. Wrap-up article on the conference in which Mailer inveighs against the economic systems of both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and calls for “a decent equitable socialism.”
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49.3

Untitled article by Associated Press writer. 1 May. In response to the condemnation of The Naked and the Dead (48.2) by the (London) Sunday Times, Mailer replies,
The possible banning of the book was discussed on the floor of the House of Commons, and widely in the British press. The British Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, while finding the novel to be “foul, lewd and revolting,” ultimately decided not to initiate proceedings against it. See 65.21, 68.31, 92.12, 95.53.
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49.4

Statement for class record. In Harvard Class of 1943: Sexennial Report, 208–9. Cambridge: Harvard University. In his 83-word statement, Mailer summarizes his activities from March 1944 through his participation in the Henry Wallace campaign in the fall of 1948. See 53.5, 58.6, 83.59.
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49.5

Speaking of Peace: An Edited Report of the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, New York, New York, March 25, 26 and 27, 1949. New York: National Council of Arts, Sciences and Professions. Contains a complete transcript of the conference, including Mailer’s remarks, 82–83. 
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49.6

Statement by Mailer in support of James Kutcher. Civil Rights at the Crossroads: The Case of the Legless Veteran. Souvenir Program for a July 23, 1949 banquet in Los Angeles honoring Kutcher, who lost both legs in the 1943 Battle of San Pietro, Italy, and was later dismissed from his job as a clerk in the Veteran’s Administration for his leftist affiliations. Mailer served on the national committee to defend Kutcher, and provided the following statement for the program (which Mailer may have attended): 
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51.1

The 1971 Cape hardcover edition and the 1973 softcover Panther edition (a Cape imprint) contains a “Note from the Author,” which consists of “Second Advertisement for Myself: Barbary Shore” (minus final sentence, with one other small change) from 59.13. Dedication: “To w:Jean Malaquais.” A dramatic version was presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, 10-27 January 1974. Jack Gelber wrote and directed the adaptation, which has never been published. Rpt: 59.13 (eight brief excerpts from novel, nine pp. total); 98.7 (partial). See 03.7, 23–26 and 13.2, 122–135.
== Bibliography ==
* Negative.
* Negative. Gissen called the novel "paceless, tasteless and graceless", which Mailer never forgot.
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51.2

“Talk with Norman Mailer.” Interview by Harvey Breit. New York Times, 3 June, Sec. 7, p. 3. Important comment on the influence of Moby-Dick on The Naked and the Dead (48.2). Mailer says of 48.2: “I had Ahab in it, and I suppose the mountain was Moby Dick. Of course, I also think the book will stand or fall as a realistic novel.” Rpt: The Writer Observed, by Harvey Breit. Cleveland: World, 1956; 88.6. See Bernard Horn’s article, “Ahab and Ishmael at War: The Presence of Moby-Dick in The Naked and the Dead,” American Quarterly 34 (fall 1982), 379–95.
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51.4

“The Defence of the Compass.” In The Western Defences, edited by Sir John George Smyth, 134–44. London: Wingate. Essay on the prospect of a military collision between the state capitalism of Russia and the monopoly capitalism of the U.S., “the Colossi.” This version strongly echoes the arguments of Barbary Shore (51.1) and was obviously written shortly before or after the novel appeared. Rpt: Mailer’s extended comments on the Korean War were cut out of the greatly revised version which appeared as “The Meaning of ‘Western Defense’” in Dissent (54.1); 59.13.
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51.5

“Norman Mailer.” American Novelists of Today, by Harry R. Warfel, 276. New York: American Book Co. Biographical entry containing Mailer’s 102-word statement on his plans for future work. He says, “I have no concerted program. I would like to experiment and to grow, but I pursue this aim through no particular standards. Technique must always be secondary to the world one constructs in a novel.” Rpt: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1972.
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52.0

“Authors Debate U.S., USSR Issues at Mt. Holyoke.” No Author. Springfield Union, 27 March 1952. Article-Interview. Report on a debate, titled “The U.S.A. or the USSR,” between and Dwight Macdonald at this private college in South Hadley, Mass. on 26 March. Macdonald’s speech, titled “I Choose the West,” was reprinted in his collection, Memoirs of a Revolutionist. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957. Mailer’s speech was titled “I Cannot Choose,” and has never been reprinted, or located. While both agreed on the general superiority of Western civilization at that moment, Mailer feared the U.S. backsliding into a war economy, and the possibility of Europe either aligning itself with the USSR, or being attacked and conquered by it. If this happened, he said, there will be a lowering of the standard of living in the U.S., perhaps Nazi-like concentration camps for dissenters, and a general breakdown of moral values. “The independent spirit of non-conformity that the U.S. has founded is dying out,” he concluded.
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52.1

“Our Country and Our Culture: A Symposium.” Partisan Review 19 (May-June), 298-301. Symposium contribution. Twenty-five American writers wrestle with four questions on the “new” and more positive relationship between American writers and intellectuals and mass democratic culture. Mailer declares straightaway that he is “in almost total disagreement with the assumptions of this symposium,” and goes on to argue for the efficacy of alienation and opposition to current society, rather than “a strapping participation in the vigors of American life.” Among those joining Mailer in his (first) contribution to Partisan Review are: Louise Bogan, Leslie Fiedler, Irving Howe, Margaret Mead, C. Wright Mills, William Phillips, Philip Rahv, David Riesman and Lionel Trilling. Rpt: America and the Intellectuals: A Symposium (PR Series, Number Four). New York: Partisan Review, May 1953, softcover; 59.13.
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52.2

=====“The Paper House.” In New World Writing: Second Mentor Collection, 58-69. New York: New American Library, November, softcover.=====
Story set in occupied Japan. Dedicated to Vance Bourjaily, “who told me the anecdote on which the story is based.” Rpt: Lilliput’s Extra Holiday Reading (London), August 1953; 59.13, 67.11, 68.32, 82.19, and Stag, February, 1975. Mailer collected this story, along with 52.3 and 53.2, in a small paperback, in English, but with notes in Japanese: A Selection from the Short Fiction of Norman Mailer. Edited by Iwao Iwamoto. Tokyo: Shohakusha, 1967. It is perhaps the rarest of all Mailer’s books in English.
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52.3

=====“The Dead Gook.” In Discovery, No. 1, edited by John W. Aldridge and Vance Bourjaily, 56–76. New York: Pocket Books, December, softcover.=====
Story about a jungle patrol with partisans in the Philippines. In his prefatory “advertisement” to this story, 52.2 and 53.2 in Advertisements for Myself (59.13), Mailer notes that he has “no great pride in them, because they are respectable. They make no attempt to raise the house an inch or two.” Rpt: 59.13, 67.11, 68.32, 82.19.
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53.2

=====“The Language of Men.” Esquire, April, 61, 115-17.=====
Story, based on Mailer’s experience as an Army cook in occupied Japan. First of more than 40 contributions to the magazine with which Mailer has been most closely identified. Rpt: Various Temptations. New York: Avon, 1955, softcover; The Armchair Esquire, edited by Arnold Gingrich and L. Rust Hills. New York: Putnam’s, 1958; 59.13, 67.11, 68.32, 82.19; Esquire Classics (registration required).
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53.3

=====“Pierrot.” World Review (London), New Series 50 (April-May), 44-50.=====
Story about a prototype Greenwich Village Beatnik. Rpt: With many small changes in 59.13 as “The Patron Saint of MacDougal Alley.” Mailer notes in 59.13 that he wrote it about the same time as his war stories (52.2, 52.3, 53.2) and “The Notebook” (53.4).
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53.4

=====“The Notebook.” Cornhill Magazine, no. 996 (summer), 481-84.=====
Story, “written in an hour,” as Mailer reports in the “advertisement” prefacing it in Advertisement for Myself (59.13), about writers as perpetual observers. Rpt: The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, No. 3, edited by William Phillips and Philip Rahv. New York: Berkley, January 1956, softcover; 59.13, 67.11, 82.19. Although Cornhill is not listed on the acknowledgments page in 59.13, and The Berkley Book of Modern Writing is, Mailer says in the prefatory “advertisement” to the story that Cornhill has precedence.
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53.5

Statement for class record. In Harvard College, Class of 1943: Tenth Anniversary Report, 262. Cambridge, Harvard University. In his 214-word statement, Mailer reprises his activities from induction into the Army in March 1944 to work on an unnamed novel [The Deer Park (55.4)]. See 49.4, 58.6, 83.59.
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54.1

“The Meaning of ‘Western Defense.’” Dissent 1 (spring), 157-65. Essay. Greatly revised version of “The Defence of the Compass” (51.4). Mailer’s first appearance came in the second number of Dissent, issued on 1 April. He was a member of the editorial board of Dissent from 1954 until the mid-80s. Rpt: 59.13.
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54.2

“In Re: Sidney Hook.” Letter to the editor. Dissent 1 (summer), 303. Mailer refuses to recant his “facetious” description of Sidney Hook in 54.1 as a “liberal-with-muscles.” He ends by saying that if Hook is “an almost lone philosophical defender of democratic socialist and humanist values, it makes me Leo Tolstoy.”
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55.1

“The Homosexual Villain.” One: The Homosexual Magazine, January, 8-12. Essay. In 61.3, Mailer acknowledges his past homophobia and says this piece “was the bravest thing I ever did, because it was done out of a dim, dull sense of duty.” Rpt: 59.13, 13.1, 14.3.
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55.2

“What I Think of Artistic Freedom.” Dissent 2 (spring), 98, 192-93. Essay. Mailer’s accompanying note says this essay, dated February, was written for “those German Stalinists whose faith might be fluttering.” He further states that “Bert Brecht might answer it in the West Berlin periodical Der Monat,” in which case Mailer’s essay would be reprinted in some East German publication. Nothing came of the proposed exchange. Rpt: 13.1.
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55.3

“Two Ex-GI’s Write Revenge on Army.” Article-interview by W.G. Rogers. Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer-News, 5 September. Mailer and Army friend Francis I. “Fig” Gwaltney comment briefly on the Army and writing. For more on Gwaltney, see 13.2, passim.
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55.4

Republished with preface by Mailer and “Fourth Advertisement for Myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park” from Advertisements for Myself (59.13). New York: Berkley, November 1976 (76.14). Dedication: “To Adele my wife and to Daniel Wolf my friend.” Discarded title: The Idol and the Octopus. The suppressed Rinehart version of this novel was to have been published 14 February. Six other publishers rejected it before Walter Minton of Putnam’s accepted it. The novel (first printing, 20,000) spent 15 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, climbing to number six on 20 November. 
Rpt: 59.13 (three brief excerpts, six pp.); 98.7 (partial). See 55.5, 55.7, 56.17, 59.14, 67.13, 68.11, 89.6, and Thomas L. Bonn’s, Heavy Traffic and High Culture: New American Library as Literary Gatekeeper in the Cultural Revolution (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989), for comment on the legal anxiety at NAL over publishing the softcover edition of DP. See also 13.2, 144-77.
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* Rpt.: Mailer Review (2016).
* Rpt: Lucid (1971); Seven American Literary Stylists: from Poe to Mailer, edited by George T. Wright, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1973; Bloom (1986).
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55.5

“All over America The Deer Park is Getting Nothing but Raves.” Village Voice, 16 November, 8. Paid advertisement composed by Mailer consisting of negative appraisals from 16 reviewers. Mailer used this technique many times before and after 55.4, for example, 73.45. Rpt. 59.13, 59.14, 76.14.
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55.6

“An Intimate Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Lyle Stuart. Exposé, no. 49 (December), 1, 4. Written answers to 69 submitted questions. Mailer also comments on organized religion, Marilyn Monroe, Sigmund Freud, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. He ends by stating that the role of the artist “is to be as disturbing, as adventurous, as penetrating as his energy and courage make possible.” Rpt: 59.13, 88.6.
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55.7

Letter to Herman Kogan, Book Review Editor, Chicago Sun-Times, 18 December. Complaint about comments in reviews of The Deer Park (55.4) that Mailer had “‘cleaned up’ the book to satisfy the demands of G.P. Putnam’s, my publisher.” He explains that the book was not bowdlerized and is actually 50 pages longer than the Rinehart version. In Advertisements for Myself (59.13), Mailer recalls that this letter was sent to “twenty-odd newspapers.”
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