Michael Lennon - Norman Mailer - a double life

NM’s reaction to, 240

Naked and the Dead, The (Mailer), 1, 8, 41, 63, 65, 69, 73, 78–79, 105, 129, 149, 175, 270, 289, 397, 410, 468, 492, 512, 540, 541–42, 703

as bestseller, 3, 109, 113

British edition of, 119–20

critical reception of, 2–5, 109–10

DeVoto’s critique of, 90, 91, 154

Dos Passos on, 106–7

emerging plan for, 70–71, 74–76, 80–81, 82–83

fiftieth anniversary edition of, 701

film rights of, 159, 173, 176

Hellman’s attempted dramatization of, 2, 107, 108, 117, 120, 126, 169

jacket design for, 103, 104, 110

length of, 83, 120

Malaquais as translator of, 101, 112, 119, 121

Naiman’s championing of, 89, 94

NM on themes of, 88, 89–90, 97

NM’s fears of editorial changes to, 101, 102–4

power as theme in, 93

profanity in, 60, 89, 94, 101, 103

use of “fug” in, 161

wartime letters to Bea as drafts for, 61, 67, 70, 72–73, 75–76, 81, 82, 86

writing of, 86–97

“Naked and the Dead, The” (Mailer; unpublished play), 50, 57

Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 250–51, 262, 275, 326, 346, 381, 600

Naropa Institute, 599, 600

NASA, 421, 422, 427, 434

Nastasi, Frank, 631

Nathan, Robert, 36

Nation, 261–62, 685

National Book Award, 347, 351, 379, 394, 397, 410–11, 439, 495, 743

National Book Critics Circle Award, 540

National Book Foundation, 742

National Commission on the Status of Women, 433

National Council of Arts, Sciences and the Professions, 115–16

National Institute of Arts and Letters, 374–75, 601, 653

National Organization for Women, 433, 442

National Review, 109, 317, 350, 357, 378

Nation Books, 740

Native Son (Wright), 208

NBC, Executioner’s Song miniseries produced by, 567–68, 569

Nenning, Günther, 720

Nesbit, Evelyn, 549

New American Library, 157, 376, 392, 408, 421, 455

Newcomb, Pat, 462

Newfield, Jack, 399–400, 410, 414, 417

Newhouse, S. I., 692, 706

New Journalism, 270, 271

New Leader, 468

New Left, 355, 428

NM on, 386–87

Newman, John Henry Cardinal, 178

Newman, Paul, 732

New Republic, 245, 565, 653, 701

New School for Social Research, 112

Newsweek, 350, 378, 411

NM on cover of, 412

New Testament, 695, 696

New World Writing, 149, 161

New York, 417, 499, 536, 649–50, 693, 736, 761

New York, N.Y., Mailer’s 1969 mayoral campaign in, 403, 410, 412–20

New York, State University of, at Albany, 734

New York Daily News, 739

New York Days (Morris), 393, 440

New Yorker, 35, 47, 48, 134, 140, 149, 150, 273, 646, 682, 692, 705, 706

New York Film Festival, 399

New York Herald Tribune Book Week, 358

New York in the Fifties (Wakefield), 198–99

New York Observer, 674, 726

New York Post, 111, 197, 267, 372, 451, 507, 691

New York Review of Books, 146, 337, 350, 378, 409, 451, 455, 468, 540, 561, 685, 700, 707, 728

Abbott’s letters in, 545

New York State Author, NM as, 653

New York Times, 169, 197, 263, 286, 298, 319, 325, 339, 346, 368, 373, 378, 409, 417, 418, 434, 435, 436, 440, 441, 443, 472, 525, 529, 556, 565, 588, 610, 632, 650, 683, 687, 699, 727, 738, 751

Mitgang’s profile of NM in, 501

New York Times Book Review, 137–38, 210, 256, 294, 397, 434, 468, 500, 540, 557, 579, 684, 685, 726, 753

New York Times Magazine, 500, 535–36, 561, 620

New York University, 441

Nexus (Miller), 497, 591

n’golo, 480, 481

“N’golo” (Mailer), 482

Nicholas II, Czar, 741, 744

Nicholson, Jack, 631, 732–33

Nicol, Brenda, 511, 515, 544

Nieman Fellows lecture, 745

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 318

Night Beat (TV series), 217, 512

Night of the Hunter, The (film), 192

1984 (Orwell), 120

Nissenbaum, Gerald L., 525

Nixon, Pat, 406

Nixon, Richard, 269, 273, 279, 405, 409, 428–29, 454, 643, 704

NM on, 405–6, 455–56

resignation of, 461

“Nixon in Miami” (Mailer), 405–7

see also Miami and the Siege of Chicago

Nobel Prize, 398, 469, 470, 501

Nolte, Nick, 567

“No Percentage” (Mailer; unpublished), 39, 40–42

Norma Jean (Guiles), 462

Norman Mailer (Poirier), 453

“Norman Mailer: Genius or Nothing” (Sheed), 461

“Norman Mailer: The Embattled Vision” (Podhoretz), 227–28

Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work (Lucid, ed.), 448

“Norman Mailer on Madonna: Like a Lady” (Mailer), 680–82, 697

Norman Mailer Society, 732, 743, 759

“Norman Mailer Versus Nine Writers” (Mailer), 326

Norr, Herbert R., 412

Norris, Barbara Church, see Mailer, Norris Church

Norris, Larry, 485, 708–9

Norris, Matthew, see Mailer, Matthew

North Toward Home (Morris), 391

Notebook, 1967–68 (Lowell), 389

“Notebook, The” (Mailer), 139–40, 322

Notes from the Underground (Dostoyevsky), 239–40

Notes of a Native Son (Baldwin), 208, 234–35, 250

Notre Dame, University of, 398–99

“Novel as History, The” (Mailer), see Armies of the Night, The

“Novelist Shelved” (Mailer), 537

Nugget, 224, 228

Nye, Carrie, 500

Nye, Suzanne, 459

NM’s affair with, 454–55, 457, 471–72, 484, 486, 490

Oakwode, Laurel (char.), 586–87

Oates, Joyce Carol, 633

Prisoner of Sex review of, 444

obscenity:

Naked Lunch prosecuted for, 346

NM’s love of, 60

O’Connor, David B., 576

O’Connor, Flannery, 143, 359

Of a Fire on the Moon (Mailer), 63, 298, 403, 432, 439, 448, 453

influence of Moby-Dick on, 424

Life serialization of, 421, 423

Little, Brown as publisher of, 421, 423, 429, 434

“million-dollar advance” story on, 421–22

reviews of, 433

writing of, 420–21, 423–24, 425–26, 428

“Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots” (Mailer), 512, 514, 569

O’Flaherty, Liam, 82

“Of Modern Times” (Mailer; unfinished novel), 581, 583

Of Time and the River (Wolfe), 644

Of Women and Their Elegance (Mailer), 536

Oglesby, Carl, 654

O’Hagan, Andrew, 252, 683, 756, 757

O’Houlihan, Raoul Rey (char.), 401, 402

Old Left, NM on, 386

Old Man and the Sea, The (Hemingway), 150, 424

Oliver, Mary, 459, 473, 486, 490, 491

Olivier, Fernande, 665, 675, 685

Olympitis, Jan Cushing, 524–25

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 261, 269, 274, 458, 500, 513–14, 517

NM’s correspondence with, 270–71, 272, 277, 697

snubbing of NM by, 307–8

Once Upon a Time in America (film), NM’s rejected script for, 492–93, 569

One: The Homosexual Magazine, 174, 175

O’Neal, Ryan, 547, 621

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Kesey), 51

112th Cavalry Regiment, 65–67

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

Headquarters Troop of, 66–67

HQ Reconnaissance Platoon of, 71–80

in Japan occupation, 78–80

O’Neill, Eugene, 716

On God: An Uncommon Conversation (Mailer and Michael Lennon), 757, 760, 761

“Only in America” (Mailer), 727–28

Ono, Yoko, 549

On Social Concerns (John Paul II), 695