Mailer's Poetry Reading at the Y Rated A for Effort, X for Content
Israel Shenker's New York Times report on Mailer's 13 December reading at the 92nd Street Y, where he read from Deaths for the Ladies and his novel-in-progress.
“Mailer’s Poetry Reading at the Y Rated A for Effort, X for Content,” an article by Israel Shenker in the New York Times (14 December 1976), reporting Mailer’s 13 December reading at New York’s 92nd Street Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. (introduced by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt), where he read from Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters) (62.3) and other work, including his novel-in-progress (83.18).