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...Norman Mailer looks forward to a novel of old evenings...
...Building, the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge. It is possible to turn 180 degrees from this spectacle and observe a fourth famous monument, the apartment's owner. Like many first glimpses of the familiar, this one offers a few surprises. At 5 ft. 8 in., Norman Mailer is a bit shorter than those who have never seen him in the flesh might expect; at 185 Ibs. he is carrying a bit more of that flesh than he would like. But his ample waist looks solid rather than soft; he is heavy in the manner of Hemingway...
Awaiting the publication of Ancient Evenings, his 23rd book and the "big" novel he has been promising for years and writing for more than a decade, Mailer seems understandably edgy. He is remarkably fit for a man of 60, which is what he became last Jan. 31. The event was celebrated quietly. Mailer and Norris Church, his sixth wife, went out to a restaurant. A few nights later, Pat Kennedy Lawford held a sit-down dinner party for several dozen people in his honor. Such subdued celebration of this milestone seems uncharacteristic. "That was calculated," he says. "I didn...
...easy being Norman Mailer. What other writer would have to soft-pedal a birthday? He braces for the approach of his publication dates, having a pretty fair idea of how the critical articles in response will be organized: "The standard joke of this household is, 'On what page do they get to the review [see box]?' In other words, the life always comes first...
...Mailer's current complaint seems a classic case of answered prayers. In Advertisements for Myself (1959) he thrust himself stage center. He became his own best subject and turned narcissism into a method of social analysis. For a heady period, no major public event in U.S. life seemed quite complete until Mailer had observed himself observing it: a huge anti-Viet Nam War march on the Pentagon (The Armies of the Night); political conventions (Miami and the Siege of Chicago); the Apollo space program (Of a Fire on the Moon). Mailer was not content simply turning out excellent books...