The Village Voice

The Greenwich Village weekly newspaper that Mailer co-founded and named, with Daniel Wolf and Edwin Fancher; the first issue appeared on 26 October 1955. Mailer's "Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers" runs in the paper from January to May 1956 (56.1–56.17).

Mailer co-founded and named The Village Voice with Daniel Wolf and Edwin Fancher; the first issue appeared on 26 October 1955.

Mailer’s appearances in the Voice through this ingest:

• “All over America The Deer Park is Getting Nothing but Raves” (55.5, 16 November 1955) — his paid advertisement of negative Deer Park reviews.
• “Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers” (56.1–56.17, 11 January–2 May 1956), introduced by Edwin Fancher on 4 January 1956 — Mailer’s weekly column, the last three installments of which are titled “The Hip and the Square.” (To be ingested in Phase 3.)

Six of the Quickly columns are collected in The Village Voice Reader: A Mixed Bag from the Greenwich Village Newspaper, ed. Daniel Wolf and Edwin Fancher (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1962).

Related pages

• 1955 | All over America The Deer Park is Getting Nothing but Raves | Daniel Wolf | Edwin Fancher
• Quickly (11 January 1956) (56.1) | Quickly (2 May 1956) (56.17)

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