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80.13

“In a Merry Marriage-Go-Round, Norman Mailer Plans a Double Wedding, to Wives Five and Six.” Article by unidentified writer. People Weekly, 3 November, 34–35. Sketchy report garnered from Liz Smith’s column on Mailer’s divorce from wife number four, Beverly Bentley, followed by marriage to Carol Stevens, with whom he lived from 1969 to 1975, then immediate divorce from her and immediate marriage (on 11 November) to Norris Church, with whom he lived since 1975. Mailer described the marriage to and divorce from Stevens as “civilized,” undertaken to “honor” his years with her and their child, Maggie. The article is accompanied by photographs of all six of his wives, and quotes from Church and Bentley. An editorial in New York Times, 19 October, Sec. 4, p. 30, subtitled “Mailer’s Ring Cycle,” lauds Mailer for these marriages: “In a time when the very idea of matrimony is in question, when parents are becoming an endangered species . . . Norman Mailer comes along and reminds us of the verities. . . . Call the novelist a matrimaniac, or call him a mensch. We call Norman Mailer a still point in a turning world.” See also “The Amours of Norman, Chapters 5 and 6,” New York Times, 14 October, Sec. B, p.12; 78.4, 78.5, 79.2–79.5, 79.8.
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80.13a

“Browsing Through Mailer’s ‘Cannibals.’” Article-interview by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt. New York Times, 6 November, C24. The author explores the connections between the poem, “The Executioner’s Song,” that Mailer published in Cannibals and Christians (66.11), and the nonfiction narrative of the same name that he published in 1979. Mailer said, “I wanted to put the poem at the beginning, but I thought it would prove misleading. It doesn’t have much to do with the book. The executioner in the novel [sic] might after all be Gary Gilmore.”
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80.14

“Before the Literary Bar.” New York, 10 November, 27–31, 33–36, 38, 40, 43–46; cover photograph of Mailer. Self-interview in the form of a courtroom proceeding in defense of 80.15, which Mailer describes as “a false autobiography” and “an imaginary memoir.” Illustrated with Milton Greene’s photographs of Marilyn Monroe from 80.15. Rpt: 88.6, 13.1. See 73.30, 80.12, 86.22, 86.25.
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80.15

No dedication. In a concluding “Author’s Note,” Mailer calls the book “an imaginary memoir.” Discarded title: Of Women and Their Elegance: by Marilyn Monroe as Told to Norman Mailer. Of the 124 photographs, 34 are of Marilyn Monroe and illustrate, in part, Mailer’s text. The remaining photographs are of other show business and/or fashion figures, including Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Amy Greene, Suzy Parker, Judy Garland, Gene Kelly and many others. The individuals or scenes in 23 of the photographs are unidentified.
The softcover edition (New York: Tom Doherty; distributed by Pinnacle, November 1981) contains 93 of these photographs; most of them are poorly reproduced. In both editions, a few photographs are misidentified or given incorrect page numbers on the “Identifications” page. For example, the second photograph of Tedi Thurman is not on 17, as listed in the first edition, but on 18–19. Mailer drew heavily on Of Women and Their Elegance for his later play “Strawhead” (86.25). Rpt: 80.12, 80.14 (partial). See 73.30, 80.17–80.19, 82.9, 86.22.
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80.16

“Norman Mailer on Love, Sex, God, and the Devil.” Interview by Cathleen Medwick. Vogue, December, 268–269, 322. Comment on the matters cited in the title: Marilyn Monroe; his novel-in-progress, Ancient Evenings (83.18); his recent reviews; and his potential as an actor. Rpt: As “One-Night Stands” in 82.16 (partial).
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80.17

“Norman Mailer on Wives, Women, Books.” Article-interview by Marian Christy. Boston Sunday Globe, 7 December, Sec. A, pp. 8, 16. Mailer talks about elegance, his ex-wives and children, the discipline of writing and his talent: “What I’m concerned about is my talent becoming larger or smaller. I’m as obsessed with that as a fashion model is about the dimensions of her waist.”
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80.17a

“How is Fiction Doing?” New York Times Book Review, 14 December,
3, 30. Several novelists, including
John Barth, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne
Anne Phillips, and Scott Spencer
join Mailer in prognosticating on
the novel’s future. Mailer says
that although the form is “cut
off on one flank by film, and on
the other by history (which has
become more novelistic than
the novel),” he predicts that
novelists “will break out of our
cysts, infiltrate other disciplines,
inhabit new epistemological
modes . . . and produce flowers
never glimpsed before.”
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80.18

“Mailer on Mailer.” Article-interview by Beverly Beyette. Style, Sunday Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill.), 14 December, Sec. C, p. 1. Beyette is identified as a Los Angeles Times writer and this piece presumably appeared there when Mailer was on a book tour for 80.15. The questions are hackneyed: “Is Marilyn Monroe some sort of obsession?” and “Are you in some way obsessed with violence?” Mailer’s replies reveal his irritation. He mentions this interview in 81.8.
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80.19

“Mailer Writes Another Monroe Doctrine.” Article-interview by Rick Kogan. Chicago Sun-Times, 15 December, 49, 69. On the book tour for 80.15 (four cities: Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and New York), [Norman Mailer|Mailer]] notes that he “was never altogether happy” with his first book on Monroe (73.30), because “I was never inside her head.”
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80.2

Letter to the editor. Hollywood Reporter, 3 January, 3. Mailer responds to comments made by Germaine Greer in her 7 December review of 79.14. He stresses that her implication that the book was “spliced” together largely through the efforts of others is false, and that Larry Schiller, far from being a “super ghoul,” was “a powerful asset” who did half the interviews for the book. Rpt: 14.3.
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80.20

“Mailer, Dying for a Part in ‘Ragtime.’ ” Article by William Borders. New York Times, 17 December, Sec. C, p. 25. Report on the London filming of Milos Forman’s “Ragtime,” based on E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel of the same name, in which Mailer plays the role of architect Stanford White, who is murdered in the film. Mailer is quoted briefly on his role and the richness of the film. Norris Church, his sixth wife, had a small role in the film. See 80.21, 81.18–81.20.
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80.21

“Mailer on ‘Ragtime.’ ” Letter to the editor. New York Times, 24 December, Sec. C, p. 6. Mailer explains that William Borders was in error in his 17 December article in saying that Mailer had asked that his wife replace the extra that was playing his date in the film. See 80.20.
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80.23

====The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer. New York: Howard Fertig. Short stories, 285 pp., $18.50.====
First hardcover edition of this collection, which previously appeared in a softcover edition (67.11), and earlier as part of The Essential Mailer (82.19). See 68.32, 72.7, 74.19.
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80.24

Sworn Affidavit of Norman Mailer, 7 January 1953. In The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System, by Charles Rembar, 370–375. New York: Simon and Schuster. Mailer’s deposition concerns the loyalty of his father, Isaac Barnett Mailer, an accountant with the War Department, whose job was under the Civil Service Commission. Despite Norman Mailer’s own leftist sympathies, his testimony convinced the Commission to clear his father without even holding a hearing. Mailer says he himself is not a “concealed Communist,” as charged, but “admittedly and openly a dissident from the conventional and generally accepted attitudes about America and its position in the world today.”
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80.25

Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots. Northridge, Cal.: Lord John Press. Essay, 103 pp., $75. Limited, signed edition of 400 hardcover copies. Rpt: 77.7, 82.16, 98.7 (partial).
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80.26

Introduction to Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, by Abbie Hoffman, xii–xv. New York: Perigee Books, G.P. Putnam’s. Rpt: With slight changes (made after Hoffman’s 1989 suicide) as Foreword to The Best of Abbie Hoffman, edited by Daniel Simon and Hoffman. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989; 98.7 (partial).
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80.3

Letter to the editor. New York Times Book Review, 6 January, 27. Complaint about being quoted out of context in James Atlas’s 2 December article, “The Case for Thomas Wolfe.” Mailer adds that “Wolfe is a hero of mine,” and that he is unhappy about being counted as one of his detractors. Atlas responds on the same page by saying that Mailer is angry at not being quoted at greater length in his article.
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80.3a

“Norman Mailer V. Ryan O’Neal: The Author Unveils His Sunday Punch.” Article by unidentified writer. People, 7 January. Account of Mailer meeting Ryan O’Neal and enjoying boxing with him, as relayed by Mailer’s friend, former light heavyweight champion, José Torres. Mailer tells him, “This is the first time I fell in love with a man.” O’Neal later starred in the film version of Tough Guys Don’t Dance. See 87.9, 87.12.
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80.4

“Do Facts and Fiction Mix?” Article-interview by Michiko Kakutani. New York Times Book Review, 27 January, 3, 28–29. Mailer, along with Irving Howe, Michael Wood, William Styron, John Hersey, E.L. Doctorow, William Shawn and Michael Korda are quoted in a round-up article on the issue of how fact and fiction are and should be mixed in narrative. Mailer defends The Executioner’s Song (79.14) as a novel, saying “God was at least as good a novelist as I am.” See 79.17.
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80.4a

“It was Quite a Shindig.” No author. Rolling Stone, 30 March. Brief account of a party at his Brooklyn Heights apartment, attended by José Torres, Woody Allen, Kurt Vonnegut, and Milton Greene. Music was provided by the punk band, Shrapnel. Mailer had a head-butting contest with one of the Band members, and wrestled with Shrapnel’s manager, Legs McNeil. When the band was leaving Mailer offered some bottles of scotch to them, and one band member replied, “Norman, we don’t know how to drink scotch yet.” Mailer gave him a bottle and said, “Well, you’ll learn, you’ll learn.”
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80.5

“Mailer Book Was the 2nd Choice of Fiction Advisory Panel” Article-interview by Herbert Mitgang. Chicago Tribune, 15 April. Mailer comments briefly on his pleasure at being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for 79.14. “Now I can go around quoting my favorite line from Voltaire—‘Once a philosopher, twice a pervert.’ ”
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80.6

“An Appeal to Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.” New York Times Book Review, 11 May, 1, 33. In an open letter, Mailer appeals to his two friends to end their quarrel, which culminated with Hellman’s defamation suit against McCarthy for saying of Hellman, on the Dick Cavett show, “every word she writes is a lie.”
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80.7

“Findings Hardly Startling to Oft-Married Mailer.” Article-interview by Harold Banks. Boston Herald-American, 25 May, Sec. A, pp. 1, 4. Mailer says he is not surprised in the projected increase in single-parent households: “I have only one friend with three kids who has been married to the same woman.”
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80.8

“To Mailer, Joyce Was ‘a Wild Sound Track.’ ” Article-interview by Robert Taylor. Boston-Globe, 14 June. Speaking at a Joyce program at the Universalist Church in Provincetown, Mailer remembered catching “some of Harry Levin’s Joyce lectures” at Harvard, and that James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann were the three great writers during his college years. Mailer also read from his novel-in-progress, Ancient Evenings (83.18).
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80.9

“In Prison.” New York Review of Books, 26 June, 34. In this 389-word note prefacing Jack Henry Abbott’s firsthand account of the violence in America’s prisons, Mailer says that Abbott’s “writing impressed me as being as good as any convict’s prose I had read since Eldridge Cleaver.” Abbott’s essay was later revised for his book, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison, for which Mailer wrote an introduction (81.10). Along with several others in the literary world, Mailer later helped Abbott gain parole, and hired him after his release. Abbott was convicted of murder in 1982. Mailer regularly attended his trial. See Abbott Affair entries.
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81.1

“A Bad Uncle’s News: Correspondence and Cheers with Norman Mailer.” Article by Richard Lee-Fulgham. Writer’s Digest, January, 72, 54. Includes quotations from Mailer’s letters to Lee-Fulgham on writing and life, e.g.: “Never duck an experience if you feel your fundamental motivation is fear.”
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81.10

“Discovering Jack H. Abbott.” New York Review of Books, 11 June, 15–16. Titled “A Vision of Hell” on the cover, Mailer’s essay accompanies two notes by Abbott, “On Women” and “On Nature.” In it, Mailer explains how he met Abbott during the time he was writing The Executioner’s Song (79.14). Rpt: With a few very minor changes, as Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison, by Jack Henry Abbott. New York: Random House, late June. Rpt: 13.1. See 80.9, other 1981, 1982 entries and 13.2, 551–566.
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81.11

“Convict-Author Free at Last with New Book—Thanks to Mailer, NYRB and Random Editor.” Article-interview by Stella Dong. Publishers’ Weekly, 12 June, 39–40. Quotes Mailer, Robert Silvers of the New York Review of Books, Erroll McDonald of Random House and Jack Abbott on Abbott’s release from prison and his forthcoming book. See 80.9, other 1981 and 1982 entries.
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81.12

“A Lifelong Con Springs Himself with a Book.” Article by Mary Vespa. People Weekly, 7 July, 62, 67. Quotes Mailer on the progress of Jack Henry Abbott, whom Mailer helped obtain parole. See 80.9, other 1981 and 1982 entries.
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81.13

“Freedom for Convict-Author: Complex and Conflicting Tale.” Article by M. A. Farber. New York Times, 17 August, Sec. A, p. 1, Sec. B, p. 4. Report on Jack H. Abbott, his prison life, literary prospects and flight from New York City authorities who sought him for murder. Excerpts from Mailer’s 15 April 1980 letter to Utah authorities on Abbott’s behalf are quoted. See earlier Times articles by Farber on 20 and 26 July; 80.9, other 1981 and 1982 entries.
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81.14

Letter to the editor. Soho News, 19–25 August, 24. Writing in response to a comment in John Lombardi’s article, “Norman Mailer’s White Negro: Jack Henry Abbott and the End of Hip,” in the 5-11 August issue, Mailer says, “You wrote a factoid. I keep no bodyguard. Never have.” See 80.9, other 1981 and 1982 entries.
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81.15

“The Famous Writers’ Cooking School.” Favorite recipes of 16 writers, including Mailer, who provides one for stuffed mushrooms. Playboy, October, 163–164, 188, 190–191. This piece is an advance excerpt from The Great American Writers’ Cookbook, edited by Dean Faulkner Wells. Introduction by Craig Claiborne. Oxford, Miss.: Yoknapatawpha Press. Mailer’s recipe leads off the appetizers and beverages section in this collection of 200 recipes by 175 American writers. Willie Morris’s recipe for John Birch Society Beans (in Playboy) has literary as well as gustatory merit.
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81.16

“Una Conversacion con Norman Mailer.” Interview with Barbara Probst Solomon. El País (Madrid), 4 October, 10–15. Comment on his forthcoming novel, Ancient Evenings (83.18), and a number of writers: Jean Malaquais, Jorge Borges, Gabriel García Márquez, Saul Bellow and, at some length, Henry Adams and his influence on The Armies of the Night (68.8). Rpt: Conducted in Provincetown, on 16 July 1981, and translated into Spanish for El País, this interview was then published as “From NASA to the Nile: A Conversation with Norman Mailer” in New Boston Review, March/April 1982, and subsequently, edited and cut to one-third its length, as “To Pontificate on Europe and America” in Pieces and Pontifications (82.16). Solomon reprinted the full interview in her collection, Horse-Trading and Ecstasy. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989.
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81.17

“A Rally of Literary Lions for Public Library.” Article by Judy Klemesrud. New York Times, 23 October, Sec. B (“Style”), p. 8. Report on a fundraiser for the New York Public Library on 22 October. Mailer’s humorous exchange with Barbara Bush is quoted.
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81.18

“ ‘Ragtime’: Dreaming America.” Article-interview by Joan Juliet Buck. Vogue, November, 440–443, 492–493. Mailer discusses playing the role of Stanford White in Ragtime, directed by Milos Forman. See 80.20, 81.19, 81.20.
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81.19

“Mailer Writes Off Acting…Too Hard.” Article-interview by Roderick Mann. Boston Globe, December. Mailer discusses his role as Stanford White in Milos Forman’s newly released film, Ragtime, and comments on the money he lost making his own films: Wild 90 (1967), Beyond the Law (1968), Maidstone (1971): “I could just as easily have bought a yacht, taken it out into the harbor and sunk it.” See 71.28, 80.20, 81.18, 81.20, 84.1.
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81.2

“Creators on Creating: Norman Mailer.” Interview by Hilary Mills. Saturday Review, January, 46–49, 52–53. Major interview focusing on Mailer’s development as a writer by the author of Mailer: A Biography (82.23). A good deal of the interview is devoted to Mailer’s shifts between the novel and journalism: “But I think if I started any aspect of that New Journalism—and I did—it was an enormously personalized journalism where the character of the narrator was one of the elements not only in telling the story but in the way the reader would assess the experience.” Rpt: Partial in both 82.16 (as “The Mad Butler”) and 82.23. See 73.44.
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81.21

Conference remarks and court testimony related to William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch. In Contemporary Literary Censorship: The Case History of Burroughs’s “Naked Lunch,” by Michael Barry Goodman. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press. ’s comments on Naked Lunch, given as a participant in the International Writers’ Conference, Edinburgh International Festival, 20–24 August 1962, are quoted by Goodman, 153–155. Mailer’s later testimony in support of Naked Lunch at its June 1965 censorship trial in Boston is also quoted, 195–200. The entire story is told again by the chief lawyer for the defense: Edward de Grazia, Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius, with new material, including quotes from Mailer (92.12). See 62.24, 65.1, 65.13, 96.7, 98.14a.
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81.22

“Game Cooking with Alfredo Foffé.” In Shooter’s Bible (no. 72), 113–114. Mailer’s introduction to Foffé’s game cookbook (which has not been located) was “excerpted” in this gun catalog and trade journal. Mailer praises Foffé’s Montague Street restaurant where he ate regularly.
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81.23

“Norman Mailer: The Interview.” By Jeffrey Michelson and Sarah Stone. Puritan Quarterly Journal Number 7, 26–32, 44–47, 72, 107. Mailer’s most extensive interview on sex and pornography. The interview was conducted at Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment on 28 December 1980. Rpt: In an abridged form as “Ethics and Pornography” in 82.16. See 73.40, 90.3.
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81.3

“The Literary Life: Thoughts on Buying a Silver BMW.” Article-interview by Scott Parkin. Esquire, January, 103. While buying a car, Mailer discusses the writing life, with asides on John Cheever and Saul Bellow.
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81.4

“Broadway.” Interview by Carol Lawson. New York Times, 30 January, Sec. C, p. 2. Brief interview concerning Mailer’s adaptation of Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15) into a play, “Strawhead” (86.25). Mailer’s comments are sandwiched in with other notes and quotes about the New York theater scene. See 86.22, 86.25.
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81.5

“Until Dead: Thoughts on Capital Punishment.” Parade, 8 February, 6–9, 11; cover photograph of Mailer. Essay of approximately 5,000 words prompted by the experience of writing The Executioner’s Song (79.14). Mailer’s first appearance in Parade. Rpt: 13.1.
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81.5a

“How to Fit $2 Million Into a Bag.” Article-interview by William Safire. New York Times, 16 February, A19. Safire quotes Frank Sinatra on the impossibility of getting $2 million in money into an attaché case. Sinatra added that if it could be done, he would give Safire that amount. When Mailer read of it, he contacted Safire and explained in precise terms how it was possible to get $2,012,000 in $100 bills into a Samsonite attaché case, 12 x 15 x 5 inches deep. Mailer did this with pieces of paper cut to the size of bills. Safire said that now Sinatra owed Mailer $2 million. Mailer replied. “You collect and we’ll share. Frank and I have the same problem. We’re victims of our own hyperbole.”
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