Bibliography for 1979. Forty-two entries from Lennon & Lennon’s Works and Days (79.1-79.36, including the lettered insertions 79.5a, 79.5b, 79.13a, 79.13b, 79.14a, and 79.20a). The year is dominated by The Executioner’s Song (October) and its book tour. Following the hub convention, the many near-identical tour reports and minor interviews are recorded as rows pointing to The Executioner’s Song.
Bibliography 1979
- article-interview
- 14
- article
- 10
- by
- 10
- interview
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- about
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| Legacy | Author(s) | Title | Venue | Date | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79.1 | Brady, James | Norman Mailer: Gary Gilmore and Cornish Game Hens Are on His Mind These Days | Miami News | 1979-01-16 | article-interview |
| 79.2 | Sullivan, Tom; Banks, Harold | Mailer: Poor Manager | Boston Herald-American | 1979-01-25 | article |
| 79.3 | Banks, Harold | Battling Mailers Agree Norman's a Genius | Boston Herald-American | 1979-01-28 | article-interview |
| 79.4 | Klemesrud, Judy | Life with Mailer: After Four Years, So Far, So Good | New York Times | 1979-04-16 | article-interview |
| 79.5 | Vibbert, Spencer | Norman Mailer: Warrior in the Battle of the Sexes | New England (Boston Sunday Globe) | 1979-06-24 | article-interview |
| 79.5a | Mitgang, Herbert | Mailer's Memory | New York Times | 1979-07-01 | article |
| 79.5b | Mailer, Norman | Letter to the editor | Boston Globe | 1979-07-03 | by |
| 79.6 | Weiner, Stewart | Where Nothing Is Felt | Writer's Digest | 1979-08 | article |
| 79.7 | McNeil, Legs | Norman Mailer: The Champ of American Letters... (Legs McNeil) | High Times | 1979-09 | interview |
| 79.8 | Mailer, Norman | Novelist Shelved | Boston | 1979-09 | by |
| 79.9 | Atlas, James | Life with Mailer | New York Times Magazine | 1979-09-09 | about |
| 79.10 | Mailer, Norman | "The Executioner's Song" (Part I) | Playboy | 1979-10 | by |
| 79.11 | Attanasio, Paul A. | Talking with Mailer | Harvard Crimson | 1979-10 | interview |
| 79.12 | Davis, Kenneth C. | PW Interviews: Norman Mailer | Publishers Weekly | 1979-10-08 | interview |
| 79.13 | Herman, Jan | Norman Mailer Meets Middle Age and Wins with a Knockout Book | Show (Sunday Chicago Sun-Times) | 1979-10-14 | article-interview |
| 79.13a | Unsigned (AP) | Mailer Says He Took Risk in Book about Gilmore | AP wire | 1979-10-28 | article |
| 79.13b | Winters, Charlene | Mailer Says Tenure in Prison Made Gary Gillmore [sic] Mediocre | Provo Herald | 1979-10-28 | article |
| 79.14 | Mailer, Norman | The Executioner's Song | Little, Brown | 1979-10-15 | by |
| 79.14a | Coburn, Randy Sue | A Time of Compromise for Mailer | Washington Star | 1979-10-18 | article-interview |
| 79.15 | Warga, Wayne | Taking the Measure of Mailer | Los Angeles Times | 1979-10-25 | article-interview |
| 79.16 | Unsigned (AP) | Author Calls Biography a 'Risk' | (Albany, Ore.) Democrat-Herald | 1979-10-26 | article |
| 79.17 | Schwartz, Tony | Is New Mailer Book Fiction, in Fact? | New York Times | 1979-10-26 | article-interview |
| 79.18 | Sprake, Heather | Mailer Speaks on Moral Nature | Daily Utah Chronicle | 1979-10-26 | article |
| 79.19 | Mailer, Norman | "The Executioner's Song" (Part II) | Playboy | 1979-11 | by |
| 79.20 | Mailer, Norman | Letter to the editor | The Harvard Advocate | 1979-11 | by |
| 79.20a | Barnum-Reece, Richard | 'Genius' Writes Gilmore Book | (Ogden, Utah) Standard Examiner | 1979-11-07 | article |
| 79.21 | Leonard, John | Private Lives | New York Times | 1979-11-07 | about |
| 79.22 | Davies, Tom | Intimations of Violence | (London) Observer | 1979-11-11 | article-interview |
| 79.23 | Spark, David | Mailer Sings of a Killer | (Darlington) Northern Echo | 1979-11-13 | article-interview |
| 79.24 | Hutchinson, Diana | Prisons of Wedlock! | (London) Daily Mail | 1979-11-13 | article-interview |
| 79.25 | Grosvenor, Peter | Tamed - by Four Wives and Two Lovers | (London) Daily Express | 1979-11-13 | article-interview |
| 79.26 | Unsigned | A Murderer's Tale: Norman Mailer Talking to Melvyn Bragg | Listener | 1979-11-15 | interview |
| 79.27 | Wyatt, Craig | Dick Cavett Looks behind Norman Mailer's New Face | Tucson Daily Gazette | 1979-11-16 | article |
| 79.28 | Toomey, Philippa | Mailer and a Monument to Death | (London) Times | 1979-11-17 | article-interview |
| 79.29 | Unsigned (NEA) | Mailer Elated after 'Song' | (Council Bluffs) Nonpareil | 1979-11-22 | article |
| 79.30 | Mailer, Norman | The Books That Made Writers | New York Times | 1979-11-25 | by |
| 79.31 | Hearst, Will | Mailer on Gilmore's Obsession with Life and Death | Los Angeles Herald Examiner | 1979-11-25 | interview |
| 79.32 | Buckley Jr., William F.; Greenfield, Jeff | Crime and Punishment: Gary Gilmore | Firing Line | 1979-12 | interview |
| 79.33 | Mailer, Norman | "The Executioner's Song" (Part III) | Playboy | 1979-12 | by |
| 79.34 | Blue, Adrianne | Death, Taxes and Norman Mailer | Time Out (London) | 1979-12-07 | article-interview |
| 79.35 | Mailer, Norman | Mailer on the '70s - Decade of 'Image, Skin Flicks and Porn' | U.S. News and World Report | 1979-12-10 | by |
| 79.35a | Plomley, Roy; Mailer, Norman | Desert Island Discs: Norman Mailer | Desert Island Discs (BBC Radio 4) | 1979-12-15 | interview |
| 79.36 | Mailer, Norman | A Special Message to Subscribers from Norman Mailer | The Naked and the Dead | 1979 | by |