Massachusetts vs. Mailer
Dwight Macdonald's New Yorker essay on Mailer's brush with the Provincetown police — the most considered account of the summer's drunkenness arrest.
“Massachusetts vs. Mailer.” Article by Dwight Macdonald. New Yorker, 8 October 1960, 154, 156, 158, 160–66.
Macdonald’s account of Mailer’s Provincetown arrest and acquittal was reprinted in Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work, edited by Robert F. Lucid (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971), and in Macdonald’s own collection Discriminations: Essays and Afterthoughts, with an introduction by Norman Mailer (New York: Grossman, 1985) — the latter restoring the conclusion the New Yorker had excised, which had also been cut from the first (1974) edition of Discriminations.
Related pages
- 1960 | Dwight Macdonald | The New Yorker | Provincetown, Massachusetts
- Norman Mailer Cleared: Not Drunk | A Letter from Provincetown
- Norman Mailer Cleared: Not Drunk (60.6) | A Letter from Provincetown (60.7) | Dwight Macdonald: 1906-1982 (83.57)