Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Existential Leader or Just Another Reader?

Darryl Henriques's Brooklyn Heights Press article on Mailer's 31 May reading at Carnegie Hall — a more extensive account than 63.30.

“Existential Leader or Just Another Reader?” Article by Darryl Henriques. Brooklyn Heights Press, 6 June 1963, 1, 2. A more extensive account of Mailer’s 31 May 1963 reading at Carnegie Hall than 63.30 in the New York Times. The Brooklyn Heights Press is Mailer’s neighborhood paper since the 1962 move to 142 Columbia Heights, and would be the venue earlier in the same week (30 May, 63.28) for the Jan Henry interview.

First published: 1963-06-06
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 63.31
Cite as: /works/1963-06-06-existential-leader-or-just-another-reader
Last updated: 2026-05-27