Michael Lennon - Norman Mailer - a double life

concept of “enormous present” in, 189–90

exploration of personas in, 189

idea of duality explored in, 183–84

on Lindner, 184–85

on Malaquais, 185

NM’s love for Adele expressed in, 188

on saint-psychopath duality, 187–88

as self-psychoanalysis, 183

sexual superiority of blacks examined in, 189

shared with Lindner, 185, 202

as source of NM’s Village Voice columns, 201

as source of “White Negro,” 189–90

Lish, Gordon, 512, 514, 611–12

Liston, Sonny, 315, 320, 321, 322, 337

Lithuania, 7, 22, 598

Litrico, Angelo, 493, 517

Little, Brown, 86, 93, 103, 434, 501, 526, 528, 570, 574

Naked and the Dead submitted to, 89–90

NM’s advances from, 439, 440, 452, 473, 504, 544

NM’s break with, 587–88

Of a Fire on the Moon published by, 421, 423, 429

Little Foxes, The (Hellman), 2

Lodge, David, 436

Lolita (Nabokov), 181

London, Jack, 131

London Evening Standard, 290, 295

London Film Festival, 404

Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neill), 716, 729

Long March, The (Styron), 149

Long Patrol, The (Mailer), 448

Long Season, The (Brosnan), 276

Look, 417, 426

“Looking for the Meat and Potatoes — Thoughts on Black Power” (Mailer), 426

Lord & Taylor Rose Award, 607–8

Los Angeles Times, 496

Lost Weekend, The (Jackson), 79

Lotos Club, 574

“Love-Buds” (Mailer), 34–35

“Love Is Where You Find It” (Mailer), 34

Love Letters (Gurney), 715

Lovett, Mickey (char.), 128, 129

Loving Mailer (Mallory), 593, 657

Lowell, Robert, 116, 117, 147, 289, 364, 383, 384–85, 387, 452, 650

in Armies of the Night, 385–86, 387, 388, 389–90

Lubin, Eva, 26

Lubin, Martin, 23, 25, 26, 34, 42

Luce, Clare Boothe, 295

Luce, Henry R., 109, 295, 411

Lucid, Robert F., 20, 50, 145, 153, 237, 238–39, 260, 362, 401, 448, 452, 453, 454, 495, 566, 569, 583, 706, 743, 752

Luddy, Tom, 617–18, 620–22, 626, 627

Lurie, Alison, 96

Luzon, battle for, 64, 66–68, 69–70, 71–73, 74–75, 76

Lynch, David, 621

Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (Goodwin), 734–35

Lyons, Leonard, 281–82

M (film), 96

Maas, Peter, 269, 270, 414

McAlice, Edward, 634, 702, 746–47

MacArthur, Douglas, 52

McCall, Monica, 224–25

McCall’s, 607

McCarthy, Eugene, 405, 459, 697, 704

McCarthy, Joseph, 153, 163

McCarthy, Kevin, 136, 226

McCarthy, Mary, 37, 116, 117, 147, 249, 312, 650

McClure, Michael, 331, 380, 401

McCullers, Carson, 143, 161, 249, 309

Macdonald, Dwight, 115, 116, 117, 137, 147, 195, 212, 223, 229, 243, 252, 294, 356, 383, 384–85, 387, 400

in Armies of the Night, 387, 388

McDonald, Erroll, 552, 556, 559

MacDowell Medal, 471, 638

McEachern, Peter, 759, 761

McGovern, George, 407, 454, 455

MacGregor, Martha, 197

McGuire, Martin, 571

McInerney, Jay, 706

MacInnes, Colin, 305

McIntyre, Alfred, 89

MacLaine, Shirley, 459, 461

MacLeish, Archibald, 31, 32

McLeod, William (char.), 94, 115, 128, 129

Macmillan, Harold, 306

McMillan, Priscilla Johnson, 678

McMurtry, Larry, 459, 637, 741

McNally, Judith, 153, 510, 521, 544–45, 560, 578, 630–31, 634, 645, 665, 671–72, 695, 712–13, 715, 743, 746–47

McNeely, Tom, 357

McNeil, Legs, 538–39

Madame Bovary (Flaubert), 576

Madden, Dougy (char.), 590–91, 621, 681

Madden, Tim (char.), 584, 585–86, 588, 590–91, 618, 621

Mademoiselle, 143, 275

Madonna, 680–82, 697

Madrid, 105

Magic Mountain, The (Mann), 194

Magritte, René, 433

Maher, Jack, 70

Maidstone (film), 336–37, 400–401, 420, 431, 432, 453, 629, 732, 756–57

hammer attack in, 402, 429

NM’s editing of, 402–3, 404, 407, 412, 429

Toback’s Esquire piece on, 401–2, 403

Venice showings of, 404, 430, 431

Maidstone: A Mystery (Mailer; book), 403, 448

Mailer, Adele, see Morales, Adele

Mailer, Barbara Jane, 9, 10, 15, 21, 55, 62, 76, 86, 94, 96, 105, 124–25, 145, 153, 280, 287, 356, 360, 430, 433, 444, 459, 525, 570, 595, 596, 607, 732, 748, 756

and Adele’s stabbing, 283–84, 290

Barney and, 17, 18–19, 187

birth of, 14

“Evaluation” essay seen as mistake by, 247–48

on Fanny, 14, 17

fiction of, 47

Jack Maher’s romance with, 70

on Naked and the Dead reception, 3, 4–5

with NM and Bea in Europe, 1–2, 3, 5, 103, 105–7

on NM’s death, 762–63

as NM’s desired literary executor, 186

on NM’s disintegrating mental state, 262, 278, 292

NM’s letters to, 63, 104, 128

as NM’s typist, 245, 247, 278

on Norris, 489–90, 654–55

Mailer, Basil, 452

Mailer, Beatrice, see Silverman, Beatrice “Bea”

Mailer, Benjamin, 10

Mailer, Celia, 10

Mailer, Danielle Leslie “Dandy,” 226, 227, 255, 266, 282, 284, 288, 291, 337, 417, 430, 444–45, 459, 499, 508, 525, 556, 562, 564, 566, 601, 731, 759

and Adele’s stabbing, 291

birth of, 218

marriage of Moschen and, 628

Norris and, 491

on Norris’s near-breakup with NM, 656–57

painting by, 616–17, 628

on summers with NM, 470–71

Mailer, Elizabeth Ann “Betsy,” 266, 282, 283–84, 288, 337, 402, 417, 430, 444, 459, 499, 525, 564, 601, 616, 656, 731

birth of, 255

marriage of Frank Nastasi and, 631

on relationship of NM and Adele, 291, 293

on summers with NM, 471

Mailer, Fanny Schneider, 13, 26, 38, 40, 76, 123, 124–25, 127–28, 134, 162, 168, 287, 309, 337, 444, 454, 457, 458, 459, 523, 525, 694

Adele disliked by, 149, 162

and Adele’s stabbing, 284, 285, 290

Barbara’s romance with Maher thwarted by, 70

Barney’s gambling and, 124

birth of, 7–8

bourgeois values of, 186–87

Carol and, 425, 475–76

courtship of Barney and, 11–12

declining health and death of, 606

in hotel business, 10–11, 14

Jeanne’s relationship with, 323–24

as lying about her age, 12–13

marriage of Barney and, 12, 18

Miss Baltimore Agency run by, 216

Nazi threat seen by, 21–22

in 1947–48 European trip, 107

NM’s letters to, 40, 54, 59, 63, 69, 82, 104, 121, 239

NM’s loan from, 439, 544

and NM’s marriage to Bea, 59

NM’s writing encouraged by, 40

with Norman and Bea in Europe, 1

Norris and, 490

oil service business of, 19, 47

as passionate about and reading and culture, 10

on Schneider family, 7

and success of Armies of the Night, 393–94, 397–98

in visit to NM and Bea in Hollywood, 125

Mailer, Isaac Barnett “Barney,” 2, 9, 10, 13, 14, 40, 55, 76, 118, 125, 127–28, 134, 168, 287, 309, 324, 352, 369, 397–98, 425

accused of communist sympathies, 153–54

and Adele’s stabbing, 284, 285, 291

courtship of Fanny and, 11–12

death of, 457

in emigration to U.S., 10

gambling addiction of, 11–12, 13, 14, 17–19, 22, 123–24, 165–66, 186

loan request to NM from, 123, 165–66

marriage of Fanny and, 12, 18

as NM’s desired executor, 186

NM’s letters to, 13, 69, 101, 102, 104, 123–24

NM’s new understanding of, 186–87

as Village Voice’ s first accountant, 194

womanizing by, 118