The Capote Perplex: An Open Letter from Norman Mailer
Mailer's Rolling Stone open letter reprising a 1958 Open End television program with David Susskind, Truman Capote, and Dorothy Parker, to counter Capote's account of the show.
“The Capote Perplex: An Open Letter from Norman Mailer,” in Rolling Stone (19 July 1973). Mailer reprises a 1958 Open End television program — David Susskind hosting, with Truman Capote and Dorothy Parker — and his later conversations about it with Capote, written to counter Capote’s memories of the show as given in a 12 April Rolling Stone interview.
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