Quickly (11 January 1956)
The first installment of Mailer's "Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers" — its introduction and raison d'être.
The opening installment of “Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers” in The Village Voice — Mailer’s introduction and statement of purpose for the column.
The clipping (provided by founding editor J. Michael Lennon) confirms that this first installment ran under the original subtitle “A Column for Slow Thinkers,” later changed to “Slow Readers,” and that it carried a photograph of Mailer. The full text is held in the working archive at full text (rights pending, proof pending) as an uncorrected OCR draft, rights: REQUEST-NEEDED pending estate clearance.
Rpt: Advertisements for Myself (59.13); 98.7; 13.1.
Related pages
- 1956 | Quickly: A Column for Slow Readers | The Village Voice
- Advertisements for Myself (59.13) | The Time of Our Time (98.7)