Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Letter to the Editor (NYT Book Review, Thomas Wolfe)

Mailer's letter complaining of being quoted out of context in James Atlas's 'The Case for Thomas Wolfe'; he affirms that 'Wolfe is a hero of mine.'

A letter to the editor of the New York Times Book Review (6 January 1980), in which Mailer complains of being quoted out of context in James Atlas‘s 2 December article “The Case for Thomas Wolfe”: “Wolfe is a hero of mine,” he writes, unhappy to be counted among his detractors. Atlas responds on the same page.

Lennon & Lennon: 80.3
Cite as: /letters/1980-01-06-letter-nytbr-thomas-wolfe
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