An Appeal to Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy
Mailer's open letter in the New York Times Book Review asking his two friends to end their quarrel - Hellman's defamation suit against McCarthy over the 'every word she writes is a lie' remark.
“An Appeal to Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy,” an open letter in the New York Times Book Review (11 May 1980) in which Mailer asks his two friends to end their quarrel — Lillian Hellman‘s defamation suit against Mary McCarthy, who had said on the Dick Cavett Show that of Hellman “every word she writes is a lie.”