Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Unseemly Scourged Bystander

Mailer's letter to Saturday Review complaining about Benjamin DeMott's treatment of his friend Eddie Bonetti in DeMott's review of Of a Fire on the Moon.

“Unseemly Scourged Bystander,” a letter to the editor of the Saturday Review (27 February 1971), in which Mailer protests the treatment of his friend Eddie Bonetti in Benjamin DeMott’s 16 January review of Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1).

Lennon & Lennon: 71.8
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Last updated: 2026-06-07