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...realized this summer that I can't shut my eyes to my writing. Fantasies about latching onto the easy spirit of the American dream are slowly losing their place in my imagination. I've tried therapy but, with Norman Mailer, "I wonder if their ends are essentially different, the artist a rebel concerned with Becoming, the analyst a regulator concerned with Being...
Besides, the Bartley's would lose a lot of time if they made star-gazing a common practice. Other famous dinners include Stephen King, Jackie Kennedy, Ted Koppel, Jimmy Breslin and Norman Mailer...
...image many people have of Harvard involves cocktail parties in New England estates, or a collection of famous faces: John F. Kennedy '40, T.S. Eliot '04, Norman Mailer '43. I think of it more like a Rorschach inkblot. If you look carefully, you can see those old-monied types with caviar and martinis. But in my little corner of the inkblot you're more likely to see slices of pizza and newspaper presses. I've not been plotting to take over the world in the last three years. I've just been learning how to survive--with as much style...
...last question of the evening came from a spectator who asked for Mailer's opinion on his relevance to people today...
Without missing a beat, Mailer replied: "It never occurs to me whether I'm relevant or not. I just assume...