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 on Tough Guys Don't Dance | 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 on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Vanity Fair | 1984-05 | by |
| 84.5 | (unidentified) | Mailer Muses on Marriage and Updike on Tough Guys Don't Dance | USA Today | 1984-05-31 | article |
| 84.6 | Blades, John | Mailer Presides over a Novel Launching on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Chicago Tribune | 1984-05-31 | article-interview |
| 84.7 | Mailer, Norman | Tough Guys Don't Dance on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Vanity Fair | 1984-06 | by |
| 84.7a | Kline, Betsy | Mailer Breaks Taboo on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Kansas City Star | 1984-06-03 | article-interview |
| 84.8 | McDowell, Edwin | Publishing: Mailer Talks about His New Thriller on Tough Guys Don't Dance | 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] on Tough Guys Don't Dance | USA Today | 1984-07-27 | by |
| 84.11 | Mailer, Norman | Provincetown on Tough Guys Don't Dance | New York Times Book Review | 1984-07-29 | by |
| — | Donoghue, Denis | Death on the Windy Dunes on Tough Guys Don't Dance | New York Times Book Review | 1984-07-29 | about |
| 84.12 | Pfeifer, Chuck | Norman Mailer on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Interview | 1984-08 | interview |
| — | Manning, Margaret | From Mailer, A Little Mayhem in P-town on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Boston Globe | 1984-08-05 | about |
| 84.13 | Mailer, Norman | Excerpt [from Tough Guys Don't Dance] on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Time | 1984-08-06 | by |
| — | Crews, Harry | Mailer Turns Mystery Writer, with Exciting Results on Tough Guys Don't Dance | St. Petersburg Times | 1984-08-06 | about |
| — | Monaghan, Charles | Mailer's Detective Story on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Wall Street Journal | 1984-08-09 | about |
| 84.14 | Howard, Peter E. | Mailer: Tough Guy at Ease in P'town on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Cape Cod Times | 1984-08-12 | article-interview |
| 84.15 | Mailer, Norman | A 'Zen Koan' for a Title on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Los Angeles Herald Examiner | 1984-08-12 | by |
| — | Higgins, George V. | Nightmare Alley on Tough Guys Don't Dance | New York | 1984-08-13 | about |
| 84.15a | (UPI) | Mailer: Russia's Not So Bad on A Country, Not a Scenario | UPI wire story | 1984-08-17 | article |
| 84.15b | (AP) | Mailer Says Soviets Improving on A Country, Not a Scenario | 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 on Tough Guys Don't Dance | 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 on Tough Guys Don't Dance | USA Today | 1984-09-12 | article-interview |
| — | Rovit, Earl | The Ropewalker on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Nation | 1984-09-18 | about |
| 84.22 | Bauer, Jerry | Norman Mailer: Doing a Number on the American Dream on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Midweek | 1984-09-20 | article-interview |
| 84.22a | Abrams, Gary | For Mailer, a 'Tough' Job: Pounds for His Thoughts on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Los Angeles Times | 1984-09-23 | article-interview |
| 84.23 | Rayner, Richard | American Ego on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Time Out | 1984-09-27 | article-interview |
| 84.23a | Kenyon, Richard | Mailer Calls God the Best Novelist on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Milwaukee Journal | 1984-10-04 | article-interview |
| — | Amis, Martin | Review of Tough Guys Don't Dance on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Observer | 1984-10 | about |
| 84.23b | Mays, Vicki | Taming of a Tough Guy on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Syndicated Features Limited (London) | 1984-10 | article-interview |
| 84.24 | Purgavie, Dermot | Thoughts of a Tough Guy on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Mail On Sunday Magazine | 1984-10-14 | article-interview |
| 84.25 | Harris, Martyn | Mixing It with Mailer on Tough Guys Don't Dance | New Society | 1984-10-18 | article-interview |
| — | Ricks, Christopher | Rectum on Tough Guys Don't Dance | London Review of Books | 1984-10-18 | about |
| 84.26 | Williams, Hugo | Television: Fisticuffs on Tough Guys Don't Dance | New Statesman | 1984-10-19 | article |
| — | Campbell, James | From Dream to Dread on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Times Literary Supplement | 1984-10-19 | about |
| 84.26a | Watson, Albert | Behind the Image on Tough Guys Don't Dance | The Newcastle Journal | 1984-10-20 | article-interview |
| 84.27 | Coleman, Terry | Mailer and the Engines of Destruction on Tough Guys Don't Dance | Guardian | 1984-10-20 | article-interview |
| 84.27a | Aspeden, Peter | Mailer's Energy Peps Up Union Proceedings on Tough Guys Don't Dance | 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 on Tough Guys Don't Dance | 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 on Tough Guys Don't Dance | PD: Sunday Magazine | 1984-12-16 | interview |
| 84.35 | Mailer, Norman | The Last Night on The Last Night | Targ Editions | 1984 | by |
| — | Green, Martin | Mailer's Why Are We in Vietnam? on Why Are We in Vietnam? | The Great American Adventure | 1984 | about |
| — | Schwenger, Peter | Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth Century Literature on The Prisoner of Sex | Routledge and Kegan Paul | 1984 | about |
| — | Tavernier-Courbin, Jacqueline | Review of Pontifications on Pieces and Pontifications | Modern Fiction Studies | 1984 | about |
| — | Bufithis, Philip; Bruccoli, Matthew | Norman Mailer on Ancient Evenings | Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1983 | 1984 | about |
| — | Burgess, Anthony | Norman Mailer on Ancient Evenings | 99 Novels: The Best in English since 1939 | 1984 | about |
| — | Parker, Hershel | Norman Mailer’s Revision of the Esquire Version of An American Dream: The Authority of ‘Built-in’ Intentionality online ↗ | Flawed Texts and Verbal Icons: Literary Authority in American Fiction | 1984 | about |