Letter to the Editor (Writer's Digest)
Mailer's letter complaining about the accuracy of Oriana Fallaci's translated interview with him in Writer's Digest.
Mailer’s letter to the editor of Writer’s Digest (March 1970, 10) complains about the accuracy of Oriana Fallaci’s interview with him published in that magazine (68.21). Mailer says that “My words, my style, my very clumsiness of speech” were converted, via translation from English to Italian and back to English, “into the spoiled and petulant tones of an Italian intellectual loved somewhat too much by his mother.”