The Spooky Art (50 page)

41.
A corollary of narcissism:
First publication.

42.
Paul Krassner: Do you think:
“An Impolite Interview with Norman Mailer,” with Paul Krassner,
The Realist
no. 40 (December 1962): 1, 13–23, 10; rpt:
Advertisements for Myself.

43.
In the course:
Shainberg interview.

44.
Part of the art:
Suffolk Master Class.

45.
I’ve found that I can’t:
Mills interview.

46.
Sometimes, the only way:
Solomon interview.

47.
I’ve always had the feeling:
Begiebing interview.

48.
Over the years:
Suffolk Master Class.

49.
The rule in capsule:
Ledger interview.

1.
Since the primitive had senses:
“Norman Mailer on Science and Art,” interview with David Young,
Antaeus
nos. 13/14 (spring–summer 1974): 334–45; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

2.
Primitive man had to see:
Abbott interview.

3.
The artist seeks:
Young interview.

4.
While the physicist:
Young interview.

5.
An equation sign:
Young interview.

6.
I’ve long had the notion:
“Norman Mailer Talks to Melvyn Bragg About the Bizarre Business of Writing a Hypothetical Life of Marilyn Monroe,” interview with Melvyn Bragg,
Listener
20 December 1973: 847–50; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer.

7.
J. Michael Lennon: Many of your characters:
Lennon, “Literary Ambitions.”

8.
Back to Kierkegaard:
Adams interview.

9.
The moment you moralize:
Medwick, “Style Is Character.”

10.
I’ve used this example:
Lennon, “An Author’s Identity.”

11.
I may not be a good:
Lennon, “An Author’s Identity.”

12.
Readers often have:
Suffolk Master Class.

13.
I’ve always been drawn:
Suffolk Master Class.

14.
Borges has a magical:
Lennon, “An Author’s Identity.”

15.
Paranoia? It is either:
“Frank Crowther: Norman Mailer, Part II,” interview with Frank Crowther,
Changes
no. 86 (January 1974): 25–26.

16.
There is a famous:
“Writers and Boxers,” interview with J. Michael Lennon,
Pieces and Pontifications
158–62.

17.
The twentieth-century artist:
Ruas interview.

18.
In line with Picasso:
Ruas interview.

19.
We tell ourselves:
“Mailer Admits Someone’s Better,” interview with Brian Peterson,
Grand Forks
[North Dakota]
Herald
22 March 1985: A1, A8.

20.
The great economists:
First publication.

21.
Obviously, Freud:
Lennon, “Literary Ambitions.”

22.
Back in 1959:
Begiebing interview.

23.
You cannot have:
Vitka interview.

24.
I don’t like to say:
Schroeder interview.

25.
I feel that the final purpose:
“Hip Hell and the Navigator: An Interview with Norman Mailer,” with Richard G. Stern and Robert F. Lucid,
Western Review
23 (winter 1959): 101–9; rpt:
Advertisements for Myself
and
The Time of Our Time.

26.
The logic of reincarnation:
“Mailer on Marriage and Women,” interview with Buzz Farbar,
Viva
October 1973: 74–76, 144–52; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications
and, in part,
The Time of Our Time.

27.
Speaking at the MacDowell:
Preface,
Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions, 1960–1972
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1976) vii–xii.

28.
I’m right and I’m wrong:
Begiebing interview.

29.
Yes, it is no ordinary:
Adams interview.

30.
When we read Proust:
“A Murderer’s Tale: Norman Mailer Talking to Melvyn Bragg,” with Melvyn Bragg,
Listener
15 November 1979: 660–62; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer.

31.
I go back again:
Shainberg interview.

32.
Writers aren’t taken seriously:
“I Ask the Questions (Such As: What’s an Old Warhorse like You Doing Drinking Iced Tea?)” interview with Dermot Purgavie,
Mail on Sunday
[London] 24 September 1995: 3.

33.
If I could give:
Crowther interview.

34.
The reader will be aware:
Marcus interview.

35.
I’ve never felt close:
Shainberg interview.

36.
In parallel, the essence:
Shainberg interview.

37.
I can see some reasonably:
De Grazia interview.

38.
You can tell a lot:
Crowther interview.

39.
One can say that if Picasso:
“Mailer on Mailer,” interview with Michael Mailer,
Time Out [New York]
11–18 October 1995: 20–21, 23.

40.
A great many artists:
Michael Mailer interview.

41.
I’ve always felt:
Mallory interview.

42.
Which opens a useful:
First publication.

43.
But now that:
First publication.

44.
Abraham Lincoln:
First publication.

45.
“Merit envies success:
First publication.

46.
One good reason:
First publication.

47.
Example: “The whole problem:
First publication.

48.
“Rudeness is the weak man’s:
First publication.

1.
Genre, as used here:
First publication.

2.
Certain human relations:
Farbar interview.

3.
Centuries from now:
Preface,
Some Honorable Men.

4.
I began my forays:
Preface,
Some Honorable Men.

5.
The excerpt that follows:
First publication.

6.
Remember the old joke:
“Ten Thousand Words a Minute,”
Esquire
February 1963: 109–20; rpt:
The Presidential Papers
(New York: Putnam, 1963) 213–67, and, in part,
The Time of Our Time.

7.
The problem of going out:
McElroy interview.

8.
During sports events:
Solomon interview.

9.
Almost always a reporter:
Baises, Harvey, Merrill, Nuwer, and Wilborn interview.

10.
One of the elements:
Solomon interview.

11.
On the other hand:
Attanasio interview.

12.
In a novel:
Isaacs interview.

13.
It is painful:
“A Harlot High and Low: Reconnoitering Through the Secret Government,”
New York
16 August 1976: 22–32, 35–38, 43–46; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications
and
The Time of Our Time.

14.
A novelist ought:
Suffolk Master Class.

15.
Larry Schiller:
Shainberg interview.

16.
Already there have been:
“Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots,”
Esquire
November 1977: 125–48; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

17.
The making of my first:
“When Irish Eyes Are Smiling, It’s Norman Mailer,” interview with Vincent Canby,
The New York Times
27 October 1968: Sec. 2, 15; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer.

18.
Movies are more likely:
“Dance of a Tough Guy,” interview with Michael Ventura,
L.A. Weekly
18–24 September 1987: 14–19; rpt:
Conversations with Norman Mailer.

19.
Time is your money:
Ventura interview.

20.
All this is easy:
First publication.

21.
Perhaps a thousand:
“A Course in Film-Making,”
New American Review
no. 12 (August 1971): 200–241; rpt:
Existential Errands
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1972).

22.
The first time:
“Norman Mailer on Love, Sex, God, and the Devil,” interview with Cathleen Medwick,
Vogue
December 1980: 268–69, 322; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

23.
To pay one’s $5:
“A Transit to Narcissus,” rev. of
Last Tango in Paris
, dir. Bernardo Bertolucci,
The New York Review of Books
17 May 1973: 3–10; rpt:
Existential Errands.

24.
I may as well confess:
First publication.

25.
Many a fiction writer:
First publication.

26.
Sometimes, it is as if:
Foreword,
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult
, by Peter Levenda (1995; New York: Continuum, 2002) 1–4.

27.
Why Are We in Vietnam?
is the only:
Preface,
Why Are We in Vietnam?
(1967; New York: Berkley, 1977) vii–x; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

28.
The unconscious can lead:
Kennedy interview.

29.
The story is:
“The Hazards and Sources of Writing.”

30.
Famous plant-man:
The Faith of Graffiti
, documented by Mervyn Kurlansky and Jon Naar, Prepared by Lawrence Schiller, Text by Norman Mailer (New York: Praeger, 1974); rpt:
The Time of Our Time.

31.
The act of writing:
“The Hazards and Sources of Writing.”

32.
The novel has:
“Playboy Interview: Norman Mailer,” with Paul Carroll,
Playboy
January 1968: 69–84; rpt:
Pieces and Pontifications.

33.
For six and a half:
The Faith of Graffiti.

34.
Years ago:
The Faith of Graffiti.

1.
Somewhere around the turn:
Shainberg interview. The Chekhov-Tolstoy anecdote is derived from John Ford Noonan’s play
Talking Things Over with Chekhov
(New York: Samuel French, 1991).

2.
Is there a sweeter:
“Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100,”
The New York Times Book Review
9 December 1984: 1, 36–37; rpt:
The Time of Our Time.

3.
J. Michael Lennon: I don’t think:
Lennon, “Literary Ambitions.”

4.
Hemingway’s style:
Kakutani interview.

5.
I guess I would say:
Attanasio interview.

6.
What characterizes every book:
Preface,
Papa: A Personal Memoir
, by Gregory Hemingway, M.D. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976) xi–xiii.

7.
The cruelest criticism:
“Miller and Hemingway,”
Pieces and Pontifications
86–93; rpt: from
Genius and Lust.

8.
His work embraced:
“Miller and Hemingway.”

9.
Not until this last:
[D. H. Lawrence],
The Prisoner of Sex
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1971) 133–60; rpt:
The Time of Our Time.

10.
Name any great novel:
Grobel interview.

11.
James Jones and I:
“Author to Author: Norman Mailer Talks to Jay McInerney,” interview with Jay McInerney,
Providence Phoenix
10 November 1995: Sec. 1, 10–11, 15.

12.
Capote wrote:
Interview with George Plimpton,
Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career
, by George Plimpton (New York: Random House, 1997) 238–40.

13.
All the same:
Mallory interview.

14.
Kurt Vonnegut:
“The Hazards and Sources of Writing.”

15.
Reading Toni Morrison:
London Master Class.

16.
Picasso had:
McInerney interview.

17.
It’s the guys:
“Talking with David Frost,” PBS, 24 January 1992.

18.
Back in school:
“Some Children of the Goddess.”

19.
I haven’t looked:
London Master Class.

20.
Since writing the above:
First publication.

21.
Good writing is not:
“Modes and Mutations: Quick Comments on the Modern American Novel,”
Commentary
March 1966: 37–40; rpt: as “The Argument Reinvigorated” in
Cannibals and Christians.