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“Life and Letters: The Contender.” Article-interview by David Denby. Photographs by Richard Avedon. New Yorker, 20 April, 60–66, 68–71. Denby’s piece is simultaneously an interview, a review of The Time of Our Time (98.7), an overview of ’s career, a thoughtful analysis of his staying power and, overall, one of the finest appreciations of Mailer published in the 90s. When Denby suggests that organizing the selections in 98.7 in the order of composition might have resulted in a “spiritual autobiography,” Mailer says, “I’ve been waiting to write an autobiographical novel all these years, but I’ve been waiting to become the hero of my own life in order to write it. I have never become the hero of my own life.” During his visit to Mailer’s home in Provincetown, Denby engages him on several topics: President Clinton, “The White Negro” (57.1), his weight and diet, Provincetown, reincarnation, the media, Gore Vidal, corporations and the Women’s Liberation movement. Asked how he felt when the movement “began to gather steam, roughly thirty years ago,” he says, “Like the British when they lost India.”
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98.4

“1958-1967: Rounding Camelot.” In A Century of Arts and Letters: The History of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters as Told, Decade by Decade, by Eleven Members, edited by John Updike, 156–197. New York: Columbia University Press, early May. Along with , the following ten individuals contributed chapters to this 1898–1997 history: Louis Auchincloss, Jack Beeson, Hortense Calisher, Ada Louise Huxtable, Wolf Kahn, R.W.B. Lewis, Richard Lippold, Cynthia Ozick, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Updike. See 84.31.
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98.5

“The Joy of Bricks.” Article by Anthony Lane. New Yorker, 4 May, 96–98, 100, 102–033. is quoted briefly in this article on Lego bricks, and a color photograph of his Lego construction, “Vertical City,” opens the piece. The same photograph appears on the dustwrapper of Cannibals and Christians (66.11). See 65.2.
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98.7

Dedication: “To Robert F. Lucid and J. Michael Lennon.”
Organized not by dates of composition, but by the dates of the events described, this huge collection contains 139 excerpts from 26 of ’s books, and from uncollected periodical pieces. In almost every excerpt, as Mailer notes in the “Acknowledgments and Appreciations,” he deleted old references, and took “the liberty of improving old sentences,” not to “alter an idea to conform to a new time,” but to “improve the prose an agreeable bit.”
Besides the foreword and “Acknowledgments and Appreciations,” the only original piece in the collection is “The Shadow of the Crime: A Word from the Author,” a one-page reflection on the 1960 stabbing of his second wife Adele. In it, Mailer explains the impact the event had on him, his wife, and his family, and the enforced delay it caused in sending a November 1960 letter to Fidel Castro, later published in the Village Voice (61.5) and The Presidential Papers (63.37). The first stanza of Mailer’s poem, his favorite poem, “The Harbors of the Moon,” is dropped in all editions of this collection.
Mailer signed 25,000 copies of 98.7, and the dustwrapper of these bears the line, “A Signed First Edition.” See 59.8a, 60.11, 74.19, 97.7, 97.23, 1998 entries.
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98.8

“View from Writing’s Heights: Time Arrives for Mailer to Mark 50 Years in Publishing.” Article-interview by Bob Minzesheimer. USA Today, 6 May, Sec. D (“Life”), 1–2; cover story. discusses 98.7 and reveals that the first printing was 25,000 copies. Besides discussing the collection, Mailer talks about his working methods, boxing, corporations, architecture and the Women’s Liberation movement, which he says was “welcomed by the corporation that now hires women at every level but the very top and pays them 90% of what it pays men.”
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98.9

“After Half a Century, Still Writing, Still Questing.” Article-interview by Rick Lyman. New York Times, 7 May, Sec. E, pp. 1, 8. The chief theme of this piece, based on Lyman’s visit to ’s home in Brooklyn Heights, is religion: “For the last 50 years, my preoccupation has been religion. What might God be? I am searching for a notion of God that is alive to me.” Mailer also compares New York and Provincetown as places to work, reveals his summer reading plans (Cormac McCarthy and Don DeLillo), lauds Warren Beatty’s new film Bulworth, discusses abortion, fiction vs. nonfiction, the nature of 98.7, his plans for a sequel to Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), and J.F.K., who, he says, “is as vivid to me as Bill Clinton, and he’s been gone all these years.” In sum, a typical Mailer interview, wide-ranging, pungent and self-revealing.
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98.9a

“The Great American Author.” Article-interview by Steve Horowitz. Icon (Iowa City), 7 May, 11. Responding to telephone questions about the New Journalism and putting himself in his essays, said, “If you don’t put yourself in the essay, then you’re exhibiting an unseemly arrogance because you’re pretending to be objective about what you’re talking about, as if you’re some disembodied voice.” Asked about his religious leanings, he said, “I don’t lean towards Christianity at all. I’m very interested in it and there are aspects of it I find exciting and aspects I find depressing.” He added: “I was Jewish and I’m still Jewish. I haven’t been in a synagogue in 20 years, but that’s neither here nor there. Being Jewish is a matter of having it in your pores.”
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98.9b

“Mailer Vigor, Viagra-fee.” Snippet about the publication party for The Time of Our Time (98.7). By Neal Travis. New York Post, 8 May. Reports on a conversation had with José Torres at the event about Viagra. “Real Men Don’t Take Viagra,” Mailer said with a twinkle in his eye.
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99.0

“Mailer’s Manhattan.” Interview by Michael Mailer. Details, January, 64–67. recalls the Manhattan of his earlier years, including going to Harlem on Saturday night: “We had a couple of black friends who had parties. They were poor so they gave rent parties. You paid to get in and then paid for your drinks. A friend who didn’t have money and needed it could make $100 a night.” He also praises Don DeLillo’s 1998 novel, Underworld: “He recreates the Italian part of the Bronx back in the 50’s in a way no one else has ever done.”
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99.1

[Tribute to Vance Bourjaily]. New Delta Review, spring/summer. Responding to a request from the editors of the Review, Andrew Spear and Christopher Joyal, for a tribute to Bourjaily who was retiring from teaching at Louisiana State University, the school’s literary magazine, wrote an 800-word piece that recalls his first meeting with James Jones in New York in 1952, arranged by Bourjaily, and how the three young novelists “laughed and roared and drank and felt for a godly half-hour like the swashbucklers who were not, not quite.” Rpt: James Jones Literary Society Newsletter 10 (fall 2001) 01.6.
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99.10

“Norman Mailer.” In For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love the Most, edited by Ronald B. Shwartz, 158–159. New York: Grosset/Putnam. Mailer lists the following, one through six: U.S.A., Studs Lonigan, Das Kapital, The Decline of the West, Anna Karenina, and Look Homeward, Angel. In a postscript, he notes that with the exception of Das Kapital, he read them all before the age of twenty. See 89.14, 99.11, 07.44.
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99.11

[Symposium Response] A Passion for Books. Edited by Harold Rabinowitz and Rob Kaplan. New York: Random House. Asked to list his favorite books, listed ten, in the following order: U.S.A., The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Look Homeward, Angel, The Grapes of Wrath, Studs Lonigan, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Appointment in Samarra, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Moby-Dick. In JML’s copy of this book, Mailer added this: “These were the books I loved most in college. Today I would add Tropic of Cancer.” See 89.14, in which he lists the same ten books, same order. See also 99.10, 07.44.
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99.2

“Postwar Paris: Chronicles of Literary Life.” Paris Review, no. 150 (spring), 266–312. Twenty-one individuals reflect on Paris after WWI in this evocative symposium, including Evan S. Connell, Kaylie Jones, Rick Bass, Mary Lee Settle, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, and James Dickey. The piece leads off with the comments of , Richard Wilbur, and Mailer scholar, Robert F. Lucid, an edited transcript of their conversation about Paris at an event honoring Lucid’s retirement from the University of Pennsylvania in September 1996. Mailer’s reminiscences deal with the mood of Paris in 1947, the writers he met there and the 1948 presidential campaign, in which Mailer made speeches for Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party candidate.
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99.2a

“Audacity.” P.O.V. April, 64–65. Brief exploration of the word audacity as it applies to the literary life. values the trait, but says that “to be bold in everything you do, however, is absurd.” The goal has to be “interesting enough to get you to embark on long shots.” He notes that “the only novels I never finished were the ones I plotted in advance,” which he said happened twice. He concludes that “it’s more honorable to try for things at the end of your reach rather than stuff which is right there.” He cites Ancient Evenings (83.18) as his most audacious novel.
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99.2b

“Author Speaks to UT about American Errors.” Article-interview by Carolyn Park. Daily Beacon (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), 8 April. Internet. Report of ’s 6 September speech at the University Center. His theme, again, was spiritual ecology, here focused on modern architecture’s tendency to make all buildings “look the same no matter where you go.” He also criticized U.S. involvement in Kosovo, saying using air power made the U.S. seem like “a bully.” 
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99.3

“Milosevic and Clinton.” Washington Post, 24 May, A25. In this 1500-word op-ed piece, criticizes the Clinton Administration’s bombing campaign in Kosovo and argues that the canny Milosevic duped Secretary of State Madeline Albright. In support of his argument, he explores “the visceral difference between a combat devoted uniquely to bombing, and participation in a ground war.”
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99.4

“A Conversation with Norman Mailer.” By J. Michael Lennon. New England Review 20 (summer), 138–148. In mid-March 1998 in Provincetown, spoke of the genesis of The Time of Our Time (98.7) and the relative merits of his fiction and nonfiction narratives, with briefer comments on early fame and the cold war. Rpt: (partial) The Spooky Art (03.7).
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99.5

“Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Christopher Busa. Provincetown Arts 14 (summer), 138–148. In a major interview with ’s friend and neighbor and editor of this magazine, Mailer speaks longer and in greater detail and nuance about what Provincetown has meant to him as an artist than in any other interview. It also includes a lengthy discussion of The Gospel According to the Son (97.13) and Ancient Evenings (83.18).
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99.6

“My Moment with Mailer.” Article-interview with Chris Wright. Boston Phoenix, 3 September, 28–30, 32. Contains an account of ’s appearance at a symposium in Provincetown, and an earlier conversation with Wright. His introduction is padded, but Mailer provides some good insights on then and now in American life, aging and the clarity that comes with it, with asides on the corporation, plastic and politics.
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99.7

“Stormin’ Norman Says He’s Soured on Giuliani . . . Mailer: A Biography Captures This Vexing Creature.” Article-interview by Adam Begley and James Wood. New York Observer, 6 December, 1. weighed in on the dispute between Mayor Giuliani and the Brooklyn Museum about a show titled “Sensation” that juxtaposed images of the Virgin Mary and child murderer Myra Hindley, calling it “a fracas between the swamp flies and the scumbags.” He also commented on Hillary Clinton, who was running for a U.S. Senate seat: “Hillary has on overbearing fault—she is full of cant. She always says what is most immediately useful politically to say.” The article is also a review of the new Mailer biography by Mary Dearborn (99.8), and includes comments from her.
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99.8

Mailer: A Biography. By Mary Dearborn: Houghton Mifflin, 9 December. declined to be interviewed for this book, the fourth full-length biography, but many conversations with him are quoted. Dearborn conducted interviews with approximately 50 people, including Mailer’s editors, Roger Donald, Ralph Graves and Jason Epstein, filmmakers D. A. Pennbaker and Jan Welt, and several close friends of Mailer: Richard Stratton, Ivan Fisher, Martha Thomases, Legs McNeil, and former friend, Norman Podhoretz. No members of Mailer’s family were interviewed, save his fourth wife, Beverly Bentley, who provided her candid perspective. See Mailer’s response to this biography, 99.7 and 00.1.
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99.9

“The Party.” Excerpt from an unidentified interview with . Rolling Stone, December 30, 110. In this brief piece, Mailer discusses the end of the Cold War and the “subterranean shock” that it gave Americans: “When the Soviet Union went out without bloodshed or crisis, like a balloon slowly losing its air, a lot of people in America, deep down, felt cheated.” For the new millennium he offers the hope that society will realize that the incredible changes in technology are dangerous: “more information, more connection, is not going to make us more learned—we could lose our connection to existence itself.”
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99.9a

Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer. By Norman Podhoretz. New York: Free Press, 1999. Memoir with long, bitter discussion of his broken friendship with Mailer, 178–220 and passim. See 68.4.
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Alan Earney, March 23, 1965

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Dear Alan,
Let me just send you a copy directly of An American Dream, you’re certainly welcome to it, and I’ll call Grace Bechtold and ask her to hold off on buying one for you.
As for the rest, the reviews have gone oddly on the book. About half have been poor, the other half quite good, but the poles are extreme, everything from “the most important novel written since the war” to “the worst literary hoax of the century.” But indeed, as you can guess, I did like the Times review.The Times’ review was written by Conrad Knickerbocker and appeared on 14 March 1965. Three of the most positive reviews were by Joan Didion in National Review on 20 April 1965, by John W. Aldridge in Life on 19 March 1965, and by Leo Bersani in the Partisan Review, fall 1965. The reviews of the novel did split fairly evenly in the major periodicals, but those in smaller publications across the country were three or four to one, negative to positive.
::::::::::::::::::::Best for now,
::::::::::::::::::::Norman 
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Alan Earney, November 4, 1963

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Dear Alan,
Apparently the situation is not so final as I thought when writing to you last. I was under the impression that Mayflower had bought the rights to An American Dream (which is the title of the novel under discussion)The public was informed of the novel’s title in Mailer’s final “Big Bite” column in Esquire, December 1963, which was on newsstands in mid-November before the assassination of President Kennedy. Mailer had written the column much earlier, of course, turning it in to the magazine in mid-September. but it seems that they merely have an option to give a first bid and match any counter bid, so I don’t know that we’re necessarily closed off from one another altogether. Anyway, let’s see how the book turns out. In the meantime,
::::::::::::::::::::my best to you
::::::::::::::::::::Norman Mailer
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Alan Earney, October 15, 1963

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Dear Alan,Earney was an editor at Transworld Publishers Limited, which under the Corgi imprint published the British soft cover edition of Advertisements for Myself in 1963.
I was quite pleased with the cover of Advertisements that you put out. You really do good jackets over at Corgi, and if Advertisements doesn’t do well, the physical production of the book can hardly be blamed.
But now I have a bit of news which I expect will prove upsetting to you. Caught in a financial situation which seemed to offer no issue, I talked Walter Minton into releasing me for one novel, and I’m now going to do a serial which will be printed in ten-thousand-word installments over the next eight months. I also signed a contract with Dial and Dell for hard cover and paperback rights and they agreed to pay a vast, indeed an unbelievable sum for the book. As part of the arrangements they insisted upon buying the English paperback rights for a paperback company which is their subsidiary or associate in England. I did my best to try to strike this last clause, because as I say I’ve been quite pleased with the way you’ve presented my books. In fact, as I all but told Victor Weybright,Victor Weybright was an editor at Andre Deutsch. you were doing a tastier job. But the amount of money was so vast and indeed the amount offered by the English paperback company was so great, that I was not able to afford to refuse this extra specification of the English rights. Indeed there was not even opportunity to consult you, for the transaction took place in a record forty-eight hours. The wheeling and dealing was much like Hollywood. While I know this news can give you small pleasure, I would like to repeat that I have no ill feeling towards your house—quite the contrary—and expect that we’ll be together again after this serial is published.
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Alan Petigny

is an award-winning former reporter for a National Public
Radio (NPR) affiliate in Florida. He received his Ph.D. in history from Brown
University in 2003. His works have appeared in The Journal of Social History,
Reviews in American History, American Heritage, The Canadian Review of American Studies (forthcoming), and The Journal of America Culture (forthcoming). Petigny has also held fellowships at Princeton University’s
Center for the Study of Religion, and Rutgers University’s Institute for
Health. Currently, Petigny is an Assistant Professor of History at the University
of Florida, where he is completing a manuscript for Cambridge University
Press entitled “The Permissive Society, 1941–1965.”
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Alexander Hicks

is Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology,
Emory University (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1979). He is author or co-editor of books including Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism and first author of papers in leading Sociology and Political Science
journals. He has twice served as editorial board member for the American Sociological Review and was inaugural co-editor of the Socioeconomic Review.
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Alexandros Mantzaris

Alexandros Mantzaris is a freelance writer and translator. He was born in 1980, in Thessaloniki, Greece, where he currently resides. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Sussex, UK. His thesis examined conceptions of “totalitarianism” in American fiction of the 1960s, concentrating on the work of five American authors in that period, one of whom was Norman .
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Allen Ahearn

Allen Ahearn graduated from the University of Maryland in 1960 and received a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University in 1970. In 1976, he and his wife, Patricia opened a book store/art gallery in Bethesda under the name Quill & Brush. They are the authors of Book Collecting: A Comprehensive Guide, published by Putnam’s in 1989, revised and enlarged in 1995 and 2000; and Collected Books: The Guide to Values, published in 1991 and revised and enlarged in 1997 and 2002. They have also published over 220 Author Price Guides, bibliographical checklists with price estimates for individual authors’ books. Their website is Quill & Brush.
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Ambassador Gutierres-Olivos, September 18, 1963

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Dear Señor Gutierres-Olivos,Mailer’s letter to Gutierres-Olivos, the Chilean ambassador to the United States, is the first to acknowledge his plan to write An American Dream. He began the novel shortly after writing the letter.
I want to thank you for your invitation to take part in the round table on October 10, but I fear I must say no because I expect to be away in New England at that time, working on a novel.
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An American Dream Expanded/Bibliography

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