Punching Papa
Mailer's review of Morley Callaghan's That Summer in Paris, in the inaugural Winter 1963 issue of the New York Review of Books — the first of many Mailer contributions to the NYRB across the next four decades. Per Lennon, the inaugural issue 'probably appeared in February.' Reprinted in Cannibals and Christians (66.11) and partial in 98.7.
“Punching Papa.” New York Review of Books (special issue, winter 1963), 13. Review of Morley Callaghan‘s That Summer in Paris (Coward-McCann, 1963), a memoir of Callaghan’s friendship with Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1929. This inaugural issue of NYRB, containing the first of many contributions by Mailer, probably appeared in February. Rpt: Cannibals and Christians (66.11), 98.7 (partial), in Selections from the First Two Issues of The New York Review of Books (Winter, Spring 1963), edited by Robert B. Silvers and Barbara Epstein. New York: New York Review of Books, 1988, and in 13.1.