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Awaiting trial on a charge of stabbing his wife, Author Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer was earning bail money last week with a reading at Manhattan's 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association. After polishing off some prose, he turned to verse with a warning that there would be language that "other people call obscene." Several short works and four-letter words later, Mailer leaped into his "transitions...
There was more, but "Y" Educational Director William Kolodney dropped the curtain on Mailer, labeled the performance "a raw recital of filth." Cried Mailer: "An administrator is no judge of literature." Eagerly concurring, Kolodney noted that he had not been judging literature...
TIME, Jan. 2: "Mailer by last week had even learned not to be a cop hater...
...NORMAN MAILER New York City
...Paar and William Saroyan all ticked off TIME on matters of personal privilege. Last month eight writers and critics (James Baldwin, Jason Epstein, Lillian Hellman, Alfred Kazin, Robert Lowell, Norman Podhoretz, Lionel Trilling, William Phillips) collaborated in a letter in defense of the literary reputation of Fellow Writer Norman Mailer...