Pearl or Jew?
A letter to the editor responding to Richard G. Stern's NYRB "Report from the MLA," which described Mailer's conduct in a Palmer House elevator and his "corrosive, brilliant" MLA talk; followed by Stern's friendly disagreement.
A letter to the editor responding to Richard G. Stern’s “Report from the MLA” (New York Review of Books, 17 February 1966), which described what Mailer said and did in an elevator in the Palmer House in Chicago in December 1965 and gave an account of Mailer’s “corrosive, brilliant” MLA talk (66.5). Mailer cites 66.3 in his letter, which is followed by Stern’s friendly disagreement. Rpt: as “To the New York Review of Books” in 72.7, 82.19.
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