The year of the archive sale: Mailer’s papers go to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, generating a cluster of article-interviews (05.3–05.6, 05.9, 05.12, 05.13). Other strands: two essays of political-theological provocation (05.1, 05.8 — the Reagan/Bush “God’s chosen envoy” blog) and the Sartre-centenary essay “Sartre’s God Problem” (05.7) with its follow-up letter to the editor (05.11); the Stop Smiling boxing conversation with John Buffalo Mailer (05.2, later folded into The Big Empty); the Parade “One Idea” piece (05.1a); a Provincetown retrospective (05.10); a letter in Malcolm Boyd’s prayer anthology (05.14); and the limited-edition booklet Norman Mailer’s Provincetown (05.15). Counts: 6 by (two of them letters), 8 article-interview, 2 article, 1 collection.
Related pages
- Mailer's Miscellany (05.3) | Mailer Archives in Texas (05.6) | Norman Mailer: The Last Buccaneer Looks Back (05.9) | Mailer's Papers Come to Texas (05.12) | You've Got Mailer (05.13) | America and Its War with the Invisible Kingdom of Satan (05.1) | God's Chosen Envoy for America (05.8) | Sartre's God Problem (05.7) | God and Man and Mailer (05.11) | Mailer v. Mailer: Norman Mailer Talks with His Son, John Buffalo Mailer, about the Sport of Boxing (05.2) | One Idea (05.1a) | The Write Place (05.10) | Letter to Malcolm Boyd (05.14) | Norman Mailer's Provincetown: The Wild West of the East (05.15)