Letter to Whit Burnett (1969)
Mailer's undated 1969 prefatory note to a selection from An American Dream for Whit Burnett's 1970 anthology This is My Best — distinguishing novels of manners from "modern explosive surrealistic novels" and judging An American Dream "my best book." Lennon calls it perhaps Mailer's most considered comment on the novel.
Letter to Whit Burnett (1969). Mailer’s undated 1969 prefatory note to a selection from An American Dream for Whit Burnett’s 1970 anthology This is My Best — distinguishing novels of manners from “modern explosive surrealistic novels” and judging An American Dream “my best book.” Lennon calls it perhaps Mailer’s most considered comment on the novel.