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...Norman Mailer, bestselling novelist and social critic, was charged with owing $80,000 in taxes and penalties for 1976 and 1977. When he could not pay, the IRS seized his house in Provincetown, Mass., which was valued at $135,000, and auctioned...
With his bushy hair and brush mustache, Richard Lowell Stratton, 37, looks the part of a writer. He has written several articles for Rolling Stone, and has been befriended by Norman Mailer. But to federal law-enforcement officials, Stratton looks more like a drug pusher than a pencil pusher. Arrested a year ago in Maine with 14 others after a raid netted $1.5 million worth of hashish and marijuana, Stratton is on trial as an active member of a drug conspiracy. A gigantic mistake, he says; he was actually no more than a spectator absorbing material for a novel...
Stratton may decide not to tell his story directly to the jury. To bolster his side's credibility, his lawyers will call on Mailer and Doris Kearns Goodwin, a historian and Lyndon Johnson confidante. Mailer, who has known Stratton for more than 15 years and jointly owns a house in Maine with him, was in Portland last week and ready to testify. "Dick is a person of much integrity and courage," he says. No matter how many points character witnesses score for Stratton, the defense must counter the evidence that he was a participant. Explains Yale Law Professor Burke...
...perfect his craft. Unable to come up with bail of $500,000, he has been in jail in Portland since September busily at work on his first novel, Drug War. The initial 300 pages of the manuscript have been ferried to a New York City literary agent by Mailer, who has been down this road before. Two years ago, Mailer was promoting and urging the parole of a prison author named Jack Henry Abbott (In the Belly of the Beast), who won release but later killed a Manhattan waiter. Stratton is no Abbott. Not only does he lack Abbott...
When Virginia Woolf opened in 1962, it put the theatrical community into a uproar. Assist partisans jumped to thrust Albee into the Arthur Mailer Eugene O'Neill Tennessee Williams axis of great American playwrights its detractors lambasted it with a passion that could only indicate that Albee had indeed hit a few raw nerves. One noted drama critic addressed the popular view that the play could not be ignored saving. That's right, there is no way that we can ignore danger and disease. But it is not right therefore to welcome the plague into our midst...