Bibliography for 1984 — the year of Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Forty-three entries from Lennon & Lennon’s Works and Days (84.1–84.35, including the lettered insertions 84.7a, 84.15a, 84.15b, 84.22a, 84.23a, 84.23b, 84.26a, and 84.27a). The great majority are advance excerpts, reviews, and the American and British tour interviews for the novel (84.17), recorded as rows pointing to its hub page. The year also brings the Parade essay on Russia (84.16), Mailer’s election to the PEN American Center presidency (84.9), his induction into the American Academy (84.31), the centenary essay “Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100” (84.32), and a Targ Editions limited edition of “The Last Night” (84.35). To these are added nine secondary “about” rows — the principal 1984 reviews of the novel (Amis, Campbell, Crews, Donoghue, Higgins, Manning, Monaghan, Ricks, and Rovit), which carry no Lennon legacy number — for 52 rows in all.
Bibliography 1984
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| Legacy | Author(s) | Title | Venue | Date | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84.1 | Robertson, Nan | Mailer Will Star with His Movies | New York Times | 1984-01-19 | article-interview |
| 84.2 | Breit, Luke | Tough Guys Don't Dance: An Exclusive Interview with Norman Mailer | Poet News | 1984-04 | article-interview |
| 84.3 | Dykas, Lee | Mailer Evening? Well, Maybe . . . One Hour Was Norman on Film | Providence Journal | 1984-04-16 | article |
| 84.4 | Mailer, Norman | Tough Guys Don't Dance | Vanity Fair | 1984-05 | by |
| 84.5 | (unidentified) | Mailer Muses on Marriage and Updike | USA Today | 1984-05-31 | article |
| 84.6 | Blades, John | Mailer Presides over a Novel Launching | Chicago Tribune | 1984-05-31 | article-interview |
| 84.7 | Mailer, Norman | Tough Guys Don't Dance | Vanity Fair | 1984-06 | by |
| 84.7a | Kline, Betsy | Mailer Breaks Taboo | Kansas City Star | 1984-06-03 | article-interview |
| 84.8 | McDowell, Edwin | Publishing: Mailer Talks about His New Thriller | New York Times | 1984-06-08 | article-interview |
| 84.9 | Mailer, Norman | Norman Mailer Elected PEN President | PEN American Center Newsletter | 1984 | by |
| 84.10 | Mailer, Norman | An Excerpt [from Tough Guys Don't Dance] | USA Today | 1984-07-27 | by |
| 84.11 | Mailer, Norman | Provincetown | New York Times Book Review | 1984-07-29 | by |
| — | Donoghue, Denis | Death on the Windy Dunes | New York Times Book Review | 1984-07-29 | about |
| 84.12 | Pfeifer, Chuck | Norman Mailer | Interview | 1984-08 | interview |
| — | Manning, Margaret | From Mailer, A Little Mayhem in P-town | Boston Globe | 1984-08-05 | about |
| 84.13 | Mailer, Norman | Excerpt [from Tough Guys Don't Dance] | Time | 1984-08-06 | by |
| — | Crews, Harry | Mailer Turns Mystery Writer, with Exciting Results | St. Petersburg Times | 1984-08-06 | about |
| — | Monaghan, Charles | Mailer's Detective Story | Wall Street Journal | 1984-08-09 | about |
| 84.14 | Howard, Peter E. | Mailer: Tough Guy at Ease in P'town | Cape Cod Times | 1984-08-12 | article-interview |
| 84.15 | Mailer, Norman | A 'Zen Koan' for a Title | Los Angeles Herald Examiner | 1984-08-12 | by |
| — | Higgins, George V. | Nightmare Alley | New York | 1984-08-13 | about |
| 84.15a | (UPI) | Mailer: Russia's Not So Bad | UPI wire story | 1984-08-17 | article |
| 84.15b | (AP) | Mailer Says Soviets Improving | AP wire story | 1984-08-17 | article |
| 84.16 | Mailer, Norman | A Country, Not a Scenario | Parade | 1984-08-19 | by |
| 84.17 | Mailer, Norman | Tough Guys Don't Dance | Random House | 1984-08-20 | by |
| 84.18 | Kennedy, Eugene | The Essential Mailer: Author Norman Mailer Talks about His New Novel, the Irish, and His Love for Chicago | Chicago Tribune Magazine | 1984-09-09 | article-interview |
| 84.19 | Sneed, and Lavin, Cheryl | Inc.: Norman on Women | Chicago Tribune | 1984-09-09 | article |
| 84.20 | Chambers, Andrea | Crime and Puzzlement: The Real-Life Mystery behind Norman Mailer's New Thriller | People Weekly | 1984-09-10 | article-interview |
| 84.21 | Heller, Karen | Norman Mailer: Tough Writers Like Him Can Take a Little Heat When Moving in New Directions | USA Today | 1984-09-12 | article-interview |
| — | Rovit, Earl | The Ropewalker | Nation | 1984-09-18 | about |
| 84.22 | Bauer, Jerry | Norman Mailer: Doing a Number on the American Dream | Midweek | 1984-09-20 | article-interview |
| 84.22a | Abrams, Gary | For Mailer, a 'Tough' Job: Pounds for His Thoughts | Los Angeles Times | 1984-09-23 | article-interview |
| 84.23 | Rayner, Richard | American Ego | Time Out | 1984-09-27 | article-interview |
| 84.23a | Kenyon, Richard | Mailer Calls God the Best Novelist | Milwaukee Journal | 1984-10-04 | article-interview |
| — | Amis, Martin | Review of *Tough Guys Don't Dance* | Observer | 1984-10 | about |
| 84.23b | Mays, Vicki | Taming of a Tough Guy | Syndicated Features Limited (London) | 1984-10 | article-interview |
| 84.24 | Purgavie, Dermot | Thoughts of a Tough Guy | Mail On Sunday Magazine | 1984-10-14 | article-interview |
| 84.25 | Harris, Martyn | Mixing It with Mailer | New Society | 1984-10-18 | article-interview |
| — | Ricks, Christopher | Rectum | London Review of Books | 1984-10-18 | about |
| 84.26 | Williams, Hugo | Television: Fisticuffs | New Statesman | 1984-10-19 | article |
| — | Campbell, James | From Dream to Dread | Times Literary Supplement | 1984-10-19 | about |
| 84.26a | Watson, Albert | Behind the Image | The Newcastle Journal | 1984-10-20 | article-interview |
| 84.27 | Coleman, Terry | Mailer and the Engines of Destruction | Guardian | 1984-10-20 | article-interview |
| 84.27a | Aspeden, Peter | Mailer's Energy Peps Up Union Proceedings | Cambridge Evening News | 1984-10-22 | article-interview |
| 84.28 | Mailer, Norman | Letter to the editor | Esquire | 1984-11 | by |
| 84.29 | Treisman, Dan, and Davis, Robin | Norman Mailer: Face to Face | Isis | 1984-11 | interview |
| 84.30 | Bowden, Mark | Norman Mailer: The Prisoner of Celebrity | Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine | 1984-12-02 | article-interview |
| 84.31 | Mitgang, Herbert | Mailer and [Erskine] Caldwell Join Academy's Select 50 | New York Times | 1984-12-08 | article |
| 84.32 | Mailer, Norman | Huckleberry Finn, Alive at 100 | New York Times Book Review | 1984-12-09 | by |
| 84.33 | Lavin, Cheryl | Fast Track: Vital Statistics, Norman Mailer | Parade | 1984-12-16 | interview |
| 84.34 | Aronson, Harvey | Norman Mailer: Fact and Fiction | PD: Sunday Magazine | 1984-12-16 | interview |
| 84.35 | Mailer, Norman | The Last Night | Targ Editions | 1984 | by |