The Spooky Art (49 page)

41.
It’s not advisable:
Attanasio interview.

42.
I remember saying:
“Mailer Opus,” interview with Sean Abbott,
At Random Magazine
May 1998 <
http://www.randomhouse.com/atrandom/normanmailer/index/html
>.

43.
Sometimes you write:
Suffolk Master Class.

1.
Before we can talk:
First publication.

2.
The piece that follows:
First publication.

3.
I am going to speak:
“The Hazards and Sources of Writing,”
Michigan Quarterly Review
24 (summer 1985): 391–402; rpt:
Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures
, ed. Nicholas Delbanco (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990).

4.
To the risks:
London Master Class.

5.
Style, of course:
Preface,
Advertisements for Myself
(1959; New York: Berkley, 1976) v–vii; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

6.
In
The Deer Park:
“The Pursuit of Experience,” interview with W. J. Weatherby,
Manchester Guardian Weekly
28 September 1961: 14.

7.
Finding one’s own manner:
London Master Class.

8.
Style is character:
Marcus interview.

9.
Style is also a reflection:
London Master Class.

10.
It is comforting:
Plimpton,
People.

11.
You know, a good skier:
“Norman Crosses Swords with Women’s Lib,” interview with Digby Diehl,
Los Angeles Times Calendar
14 February 1971: 1, 56.

12.
There are two kinds:
“Toward a Concept of Norman Mailer,” interview with Samuel M. Hughes,
Pennsylvania Gazette
[Alumni Magazine of University of Pennsylvania] May 1995: 20–27.

13.
Metaphors? You ask:
“Literary Ambitions,” interview with J. Michael Lennon,
Pieces and Pontifications
163–71.

14.
On the other hand:
Shainberg interview.

15.
A short fictional piece:
“A Man Half Full.”

16.
Larry Shainberg: You used:
Shainberg interview.

17.
While Dwight Macdonald:
Preface,
Discriminations: Essays and Afterthoughts
, by Dwight Macdonald (New York: Grossman, 1985) vii–ix.

18.
As a corollary:
“Some Children of the Goddess.”

19.
Third person and first person:
“Norman Mailer Interview,” with Romona Koval,
Books and Writing
1 September 2000 <
http://www.abc.net.au/arts_0192000html
>.

20.
In the first person:
London Master Class.

21.
First person point of view:
“A Conversation with Norman Mailer,” with J. Michael Lennon,
New England Review
20 (summer 1999): 138–48.

22.
It was not until:
Abbott interview.

23.
Nonetheless, I have considerable:
London Master Class.

24.
The CIA:
“Mailer’s American Dream,” interview with Patricia Holt,
San Francisco Chronicle
17 October 1991: 1, 4.

25.
The decisions you make:
Lennon,
New England Review.

26.
Working on
The Executioner’s Song:
“Mailer’s America,” interview with J. Michael Lennon,
Chicago Tribune
29 September 1991: Sec. 13, 18–19, 27.

27.
I no longer work:
“Creators on Creating: Norman Mailer,” interview with Hilary Mills,
Saturday Review
January 1981: 46–49, 52–53; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

28.
For that matter:
Plimpton,
People.

29.
Many young novelists:
Suffolk Master Class.

30.
Some of my characters:
“Norman Mailer: Fact and Fiction,” interview with Harvey Aronson,
PD: Sunday Magazine of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
16 December 1984: 4–6, 22–23.

31.
Graham Greene:
Aronson interview.

32.
Up to now:
Marcus interview.

33.
The question remains:
Marcus interview.

34.
I’ve spoken of characters:
Marcus interview.

35.
Hearn’s death:
“Norman Mailer at Columbia,” interview with Joseph McElroy and Columbia students,
Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose
no. 6 (spring–summer): 103–15; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

36.
When it comes:
Lennon, “Literary Ambitions.”

37.
I’d say try not:
“Norman Mailer: ‘The Hubris of the American Vision,’ ” interview with Eric James Schroeder,
Vietnam, We’ve All Been There: Interviews with American Writers
, ed. Eric James Schroeder (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1992) 91–105.

38.
Hemingway suffered:
Shainberg interview.

39.
I’ve been asked:
Marcus interview.

40.
If a novelist:
Attanasio interview.

41.
The characters you create:
“Norman Mailer: I’m Like a Minor Champ,” interview with Stan Isaacs,
LI: Newsday’s Magazine
21 September 1975: 10–13, 22–26.

42.
I am not sure:
Marcus interview.

43.
In large part:
“An Author’s Identity,” interview with J. Michael Lennon,
Pieces and Pontifications
151–57.

44.
One example:
London Master Class.

45.
I think Capote’s book:
“An Interview with Norman Mailer,” with John W. Aldridge,
Partisan Review
47 (July 1980): 174–82; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer.

46.
If you find:
McElroy interview.

47.
Let me take:
McElroy interview.

48.
The influence of Henry Adams:
Solomon interview. 99
Literary influence:
“Mailer and Vidal: The Big Schmooze,” interview with Carole Mallory,
Esquire
May 1991: 105–12.

49.
It’s disturbing to read:
Mallory interview.

50.
I’m now eighty:
Abbott interview.

51.
I remember in the summer:
McElroy interview.

52.
A large part of writing:
London Master Class.

53.
Writing is wonderful:
“The Surreal Professor,” interview with Marshall Ledger,
Pennsylvania Gazette
May 1983: 14–22.

54.
There’s nothing glorious:
Kakutani interview.

55.
I used to have:
“Norman Mailer,” interview with Brian Lamb,
Booknotes: America’s Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
, ed. Brian Lamb (New York: Random House, 1997) 162–65.

56.
When I read something:
London Master Class.

57.
I never know what:
“Style Is Character: An Interview with Norman Mailer,” with Cathleen Medwick,
Vogue
May 1983: 279, 343.

58.
I think it’s important:
Marcus interview.

59.
Indeed, many good writers:
Schumacher interview.

60.
Of course, it’s virtually:
Marcus interview.

61.
If you can:
McElroy interview.

62.
Once you are committed:
“Norman Mailer: Stupidity Brings Out the Violence in Me,” interview with Lawrence Grobel,
Endangered Species: Writers Talk About Their Craft, Their Lives
, ed. Lawrence Grobel (Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2001) 289–316.

63.
I’ve often felt:
“Thoughts of a Tough Guy,” interview with Richard Howard,
Mail on Sunday Magazine
[London] 14 October 1984: 78.

64.
A few words:
McElroy interview.

65.
Research is another matter:
McElroy interview.

66.
By now, I’m a bit cynical:
Marcus interview.

1.
If I place:
First publication.

2.
Having, at the age of twenty-five:
London Master Class.

3.
Some artists:
Lennon, “An Author’s Identity.”

4.
My case was different:
Mills, “Creators on Creating: Norman Mailer.”

5.
People who suffer:
“Norman and Norris Mailer Seem Letter-Perfect for Roles of Literary Legends Who Lived Large,” interview with Debbie Forman,
Cape Cod Times
15 September 2001: B1–B2.

6.
I was successful and alienated:
Mills, “Creators on Creating: Norman Mailer.”

7.
Let me see:
“Still Stormin’,” interview with Alastair McKay,
The Scotsman: S2 Weekend
22 July 2000: 2–5.

8.
Moreover, there’s an irony:
“Mailer, Between Lives,” interview with Curt Suplee,
Washington Post Style
20 April 1983: B1, B11.

9.
On the other hand:
First publication.

10.
James Jones:
Lennon,
New England Review.

11.
But I kept wanting:
Interview with Bill Vitka, “The Source,” CBS Radio, October 1984.

12.
I’ve always been fascinated:
“The Old Man and the Novel,” interview with Scott Spencer,
The New York Times Magazine
22 September 1991: 28–31, 40, 42, 47.

13.
Since good novelists:
“Norman Mailer Face-to-Face,” interview with Dan Treisman and Robin Davis,
Isis: Oxford University Magazine
November–December 1984: 8–9.

14.
If you start:
“Norman Mailer Face-to-Face,” interview with Anthony R. Cannela,
Hartford Courant
6 December 1998: B1, B3.

15.
I’ve virtually said:
London Master Class.

16.
The energy I put:
Mills interview.

17.
City life produces:
“Mailer: Tough Guy at Ease in P’town,” interview with Peter E. Howard,
Cape Cod Times
12 August 1984: 1, 12–13.

18.
In the world:
“Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer,” with Laura Adams,
Partisan Review
42 (summer 1975) 197–214; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer
and, in part,
The Time of Our Time.

19.
You also have to learn:
Lee interview.

20.
I think Hemingway:
“Mailer on Mailer: An Interview,” with Matthew Grace and Steve Roday,
New Orleans Review
3.3 (1973): 229–34.

21.
Hemingway’s death:
Solomon interview.

22.
All the same:
“Some Children of the Goddess.”

23.
Few good writers:
“Norman Mailer,” interview with Charles Ruas,
Conversations with American Writers
(New York: Random House, 1985) 18–36.

24.
One of the hardest:
“Mailer’s Alpha and Omega,” interview with Toby Thompson,
Vanity Fair
October 1991: 150–62.

25.
The literary world:
Mills interview.

26.
A writer, no matter:
“Some Children of the Goddess.”

27.
When it comes:
Suffolk Master Class.

28.
It may be that part:
“Twelfth Round: An Interview with Norman Mailer,” with Robert Begiebing,
Harvard Magazine
85 (March–April 1983): 40–50; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer.

29.
Only another writer:
“A Conversation with Norman Mailer,” with Barry H. Leeds,
Connecticut Review
10 (spring 1988): 1–15; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer.

30.
Writing can also be:
Kakutani interview.

31.
There is always fear:
Begiebing interview.

32.
I’m always a little:
Lennon, “An Author’s Identity.”

33.
Usually, on an average:
Grace and Roday interview.

34.
When I’m writing:
Diehl interview.

35.
Today, most of my ideas:
Kakutani interview.

36.
I can sit:
Shainberg interview.

37.
On the other hand:
Suffolk Master Class.

38.
If you believe:
Suffolk Master Class.

39.
Another word on gender:
Suffolk Master Class.

40.
The narcissist suffers:
“Narcissism,”
Pieces and Pontifications
106–14; rpt: from
Genius and Lust: A Journey Through the Major Writings of Henry Miller
(New York: Grove, 1976).