Bibliography for 1981. Twenty-four entries from Lennon & Lennon’s Works and Days (81.1-81.23, including the lettered insertion 81.5a). The year is dominated by the Jack Henry Abbott affair — Mailer’s introduction to In the Belly of the Beast (81.10), the parole he helped win, and the killing of Richard Adan on 18 July — together with Mailer’s turn as Stanford White in Forman’s Ragtime and his capital-punishment essay for Parade (81.5). The Abbott-coverage entries (81.11-81.14) point to the introduction’s Work page, which serves as the hub for the affair.
Bibliography 1981
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| Legacy | Author(s) | Title | Venue | Date | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81.1 | Lee-Fulgham, Richard | A Bad Uncle's News: Correspondence and Cheers with Norman Mailer | Writer's Digest | 1981-01 | about |
| 81.2 | Mills, Hilary | Creators on Creating: Norman Mailer | Saturday Review | 1981-01 | interview |
| 81.3 | Parkin, Scott | The Literary Life: Thoughts on Buying a Silver BMW | Esquire | 1981-01 | article-interview |
| 81.4 | Lawson, Carol | Broadway | New York Times | 1981-01-30 | interview |
| 81.5 | Mailer, Norman | Until Dead: Thoughts on Capital Punishment | Parade | 1981-02-08 | by |
| 81.5a | Safire, William | How to Fit $2 Million Into a Bag | New York Times | 1981-02-16 | article-interview |
| 81.6 | Attanasio, Paul | Prisoner of Success | Boston Phoenix | 1981-02-24 | interview |
| 81.7 | McElroy, Joseph (mod.); Hoagland, Paul; Duecker, Kurt (eds.) | Norman Mailer at Columbia | Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose | 1981 | interview |
| 81.8 | McDonald, William | An Evening with Norman Mailer | Lone Star Review | 1981-04 | interview |
| 81.9 | Mailer, Norman | A Sinister Occupation | Book Digest Magazine | 1981-04 | by |
| 81.10 | Mailer, Norman | "Discovering Jack H. Abbott" / Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast | New York Review of Books; then Random House | 1981-06-11 | by |
| 81.11 | Dong, Stella | Convict-Author Free at Last with New Book — Thanks to Mailer, NYRB and Random Editor on Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast | Publishers Weekly | 1981-06-12 | article-interview |
| 81.12 | Vespa, Mary | A Lifelong Con Springs Himself with a Book on Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast | People Weekly | 1981-07-07 | article |
| 81.13 | Farber, M. A. | Freedom for Convict-Author: Complex and Conflicting Tale on Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast | New York Times | 1981-08-17 | article |
| 81.14 | Mailer, Norman | Letter to the editor on Introduction to In the Belly of the Beast | Soho News | 1981-08-19 | by |
| 81.15 | Mailer, Norman | The Famous Writers' Cooking School | Playboy | 1981-10 | by |
| 81.16 | Solomon, Barbara Probst | Una Conversación con Norman Mailer | El País | 1981-10-04 | interview |
| 81.17 | Klemesrud, Judy | A Rally of Literary Lions for Public Library | New York Times | 1981-10-23 | article |
| 81.18 | Buck, Joan Juliet | 'Ragtime': Dreaming America | Vogue | 1981-11 | article-interview |
| 81.19 | Mann, Roderick | Mailer Writes Off Acting . . . Too Hard | Boston Globe | 1981-12 | article-interview |
| 81.20 | Kennedy, Harlan | Milos Forman Searches for the Right Key | American Film | 1981-12 | article |
| 81.21 | Mailer, Norman | Conference remarks and court testimony on Burroughs's Naked Lunch | Contemporary Literary Censorship | 1981 | by |
| 81.22 | Mailer, Norman | Game Cooking with Alfredo Foffé | Shooter's Bible | 1981 | by |
| 81.23 | Michelson, Jeffrey; Stone, Sarah | Norman Mailer: The Interview | Puritan Quarterly Journal | 1981 | interview |
| — | Hellmann, John | Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction on The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History | University of Illinois Press | 1981 | about |
| — | Lennon, J. Michael; Strozier, Charles B. | Empathy and Detachment in the Narratives of Erikson and Mailer | Psychohistory Review | 1981 | about |