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AFTERWORDS: NOVELISTS ON THEIR NOVELS, edited by Thomas McCormack. The anxiety, excitement and loneliness of confronting blank sheets of paper, sharply recalled and brightly written by 14 novelists, including Norman Mailer, Truman Capote and Louis Auchincloss...
...going to be saved by reason or unreason." Said Author Leslie Fiedler: "Reason, although dead, holds us with an embrace that looks like a lovers' embrace but turns out to be rigor mortis. Unless we're necrophiles, we'd better let go." Intoned Norman Mailer: "Somewhere, something incredible happened in history-the wrong guys won. We're heading for a conclusion that consists of Joey Namath grinning hungrily over the line at Earl Morrall...
Such overexposure might well decrease, not increase, the public use of obscenity. No one throws a bomb that has no bang. Take the example of Esquire, which published Norman Mailer's scatological novel An American Dream five years ago (but asked Novelist Bernard Malamud last fall to change two obscene phrases in a short story; he refused, and the Atlantic printed the story and the two phrases). "We're using four-letter words less and less just because they've surfaced," says Editor Harold Hayes. "They're losing their force." This spring he plans to publish...
...born brawler and natural teller of war stories. Mailer gives us the coordinates of the enemy-the timid, shortsighted publishers who at first shrank from the novel's excoriating, charged treatment of Hollywood life. He tells of his anxieties and the state of his abused liver-which, if the laws of metaphor may be suspended briefly, he has worn as proudly as a Purple Heart. And Mailer never lets the reader forget that he is an important and dedicated writer constantly bent on making his prose as penetrating as his visions...
Creative Excitement. Between the extremes of Auchincloss and Mailer, Afterwords offers a variety of literary experiences. Wright Morris is vague about the moment when something that is most often called inspiration strikes. "In whatever medium that is congenial to his talent," he writes of the artist, "he painlessly cracks through how things were, to how things are." Truman Capote is more succinct, though no more enlightening, when he records that "excitement-a variety of creative coma-overcame...