The Week in Books
Martha MacGregor's New York Post column, in which Mailer discusses Deaths for the Ladies (62.3) at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. Mailer explains the unnumbered pages of the book ('I want it to be a bit of a physical experience to read this book...'); calls himself an amateur poet ('When it comes to poets like a Yeats — I play fraternity house piano'); and expresses his fears that America may become 'the finest and most exquisite expression of totalitarianism.'
“The Week in Books.” Column by Martha MacGregor. New York Post Magazine, 4 March 1962, 11. Article-interview.
At the Algonquin Hotel in New York, Mailer discusses his new book of poetry, Deaths for the Ladies (62.3). His explanation for the fact that the pages of 62.3 are unnumbered: “I want it to be a bit of a physical experience to read this book. You’ll have to do a lot of thumbing to find things. The book will be dog-eared, what every author wants.”
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