Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Letter to Don Carpenter (1 June 1964)

A bawdy congratulations on Carpenter's arrival "in the same boat" of magazine work, and word that An American Dream is nearly done — "the eighth has a bing-bang ending" — before he leaves for Provincetown to collapse.

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Letter to Don Carpenter (1 June 1964). A bawdy congratulations on Carpenter’s arrival “in the same boat” of magazine work, and word that An American Dream is nearly done — “the eighth has a bing-bang ending” — before he leaves for Provincetown to collapse.

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