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
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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 on The Executioner's Song | 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 |
| — | Wolcott, James | Norman Mailer and the Dream of Death on The Executioner's Song | Village Voice | 1979-10-01 | about |
| — | Didion, Joan | 'I Want to Go Ahead and Do It' on The Executioner's Song online ↗ | New York Times Book Review | 1979-10-07 | 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 on The Executioner's Song | Show (Sunday Chicago Sun-Times) | 1979-10-14 | article-interview |
| 79.13a | Unsigned (AP) | Mailer Says He Took Risk in Book about Gilmore on The Executioner's Song | AP wire | 1979-10-28 | article |
| 79.13b | Winters, Charlene | Mailer Says Tenure in Prison Made Gary Gillmore [sic] Mediocre on The Executioner's Song | 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 on The Executioner's Song | Washington Star | 1979-10-18 | article-interview |
| — | Lucid, Robert F. | A Man Sought Death and, Too Late, Found It on The Executioner's Song | Philadelphia Inquirer | 1979-10-21 | about |
| — | McMurty, Larry | Review of The Executioner's Song on The Executioner's Song | New West | 1979-10-22 | about |
| 79.15 | Warga, Wayne | Taking the Measure of Mailer on The Executioner's Song | Los Angeles Times | 1979-10-25 | article-interview |
| 79.16 | Unsigned (AP) | Author Calls Biography a 'Risk' on The Executioner's Song | (Albany, Ore.) Democrat-Herald | 1979-10-26 | article |
| 79.17 | Schwartz, Tony | Is New Mailer Book Fiction, in Fact? on The Executioner's Song | New York Times | 1979-10-26 | article-interview |
| 79.18 | Sprake, Heather | Mailer Speaks on Moral Nature on The Executioner's Song | 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 on The Executioner's Song | (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 on The Executioner's Song | (London) Observer | 1979-11-11 | article-interview |
| 79.23 | Spark, David | Mailer Sings of a Killer on The Executioner's Song | (Darlington) Northern Echo | 1979-11-13 | article-interview |
| 79.24 | Hutchinson, Diana | Prisons of Wedlock! on The Executioner's Song | (London) Daily Mail | 1979-11-13 | article-interview |
| 79.25 | Grosvenor, Peter | Tamed - by Four Wives and Two Lovers on The Executioner's Song | (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 on The Executioner's Song | Tucson Daily Gazette | 1979-11-16 | article |
| 79.28 | Toomey, Philippa | Mailer and a Monument to Death on The Executioner's Song | (London) Times | 1979-11-17 | article-interview |
| — | Morgan, Ted | Fine Lines on The Executioner's Song | Saturday Review | 1979-11-19 | about |
| — | Rovit, Earl | True Life Story on The Executioner's Song | Nation | 1979-11-20 | about |
| 79.29 | Unsigned (NEA) | Mailer Elated after 'Song' on The Executioner's 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 on The Executioner's Song | Los Angeles Herald Examiner | 1979-11-25 | interview |
| — | Johnson, Diane | Death for Sale on The Executioner's Song | New York Review of Books | 1979-12-06 | about |
| 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 on The Executioner's Song | 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 on The Executioner's Song online ↗ | 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 |
| — | Bailey, Jennifer | The Novelist versus the Reporter on Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968, St. George and the Godfather | Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist | 1979 | about |
| — | Bailey, Jennifer | Norman Mailer: Quick-Change Artist on Genius and Lust: A Journey through the Major Writings of Henry Miller | Harper & Row | 1979 | about |
| — | Marks, Barry A. | Civil Disobedience in Retrospect: Henry Thoreau and Norman Mailer | Soundings 2 | 1979 | about |