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...persuaded his friend and fellow Southerner William Styron to run a 35,000-word excerpt from The Confessions of Nat Turner in Harper's at a fee several times smaller than he could have got elsewhere. But his official declaration of independence came when he signed Norman Mailer to recount his experiences at a Washington peace march...
Writers' Prerogatives. Mailer turned in 90,000 words. Morris read them all and deliberated with Executive Editor Midge Decter for most of a drinking afternoon before deciding to run the piece in full, turning over a whole issue of Harper's to what was probably the longest magazine article ever published, "The Steps of the Pentagon." In book form, as The Armies of the Night, it won a Pulitzer Prize for Mailer...
...radicalism aside, the student was admitted because his writing style was considered outstanding. "He sounded like another Norman Mailer," Peterson explained...
...last decade it was the twist and Jackie Kennedy. The culture moves so fast that one never can be quite sure of what is happening until the latest issue of Life (mainstream-pop culture) or Rolling Stone (counter pop-culture) arrives in the mail box. As Norman Mailer said a few weeks ago, only one factor of our national life is unchanging: "This country is a bitch...
...Supreme Court unanimously upheld the law. Giving the recipient absolute power to decide what arouses him is perfectly proper, the court ruled, and neatly avoids censorship by the Government. Speaking for the court, Chief Justice Burger affirmed every citizen's right "to be let alone" and added: "A mailer's right to communicate must stop at the mailbox of an unreceptive addressee...