Letters to Myrick Land
Mailer's letters in the chapter of Myrick Land's The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem (1963) titled 'Mr. Norman Mailer Challenges All the Talent in the Room.' The chapter recapitulates 'Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room' (59.10) followed by rejoinders from Mailer and from some of the writers he appraised: Chandler Brossard, Herbert Gold, William Styron, Gore Vidal, and Vance Bourjaily. The revised second edition (Lexikos, 1983) contains a 1982 postscript with valedictory comments from Mailer, Bourjaily, and Gold. See 'Appendix A — Professional Mendacity' in 63.37, where Mailer criticizes the 18 January 1963 Time review of Land's book.
Letters to Myrick Land. In “Mr. Norman Mailer Challenges All the Talent in the Room,” The Fine Art of Literary Mayhem: A Lively Account of Famous Writers and Their Feuds, by Myrick Land, 216–38. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
A chapter recapitulating Mailer’s 1959 “Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room” (59.10), followed by rejoinders from Mailer and from some of those he appraised in the original essay: Chandler Brossard, Herbert Gold, William Styron, Gore Vidal, and Vance Bourjaily. The revised second edition (San Francisco: Lexikos, 1983) contains a 1982 postscript with valedictory comments from Mailer, Bourjaily, and Gold, pp. 228–44.
See “Appendix A — Professional Mendacity” in The Presidential Papers (63.37), where Mailer criticizes the 18 January 1963 Time review of Land’s book.
Related pages
- 1963 | Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room | The Presidential Papers
- Norman Mailer: A Double Life (13.2)