Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Letter to the Editor (Newsweek, 23 December 1968)

Mailer's letter correcting four errors in the 9 December profile, including the claim that a publisher forced him to censor The Naked and the Dead.

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A letter to the editor correcting four errors in 68.29, the most important being: “No publisher ever forced me to censor The Naked and the Dead [48.2]. I decided to use the word fug before the book was even begun.” Rpt: 14.3.

Lennon & Lennon: 68.31
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