Dwight Macdonald: 1906-1982
Mailer's memorial tribute to the critic Dwight Macdonald, read at an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters dinner on 3 November 1983 and reprinted as the preface to a posthumous edition of Macdonald's essays.
“Dwight Macdonald: 1906–1982,” Mailer’s memorial portrait of the critic Dwight Macdonald, read at a dinner meeting of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters on 3 November 1983 and printed in its Proceedings (2nd ser., no. 34, 89–91). It was reprinted as the preface to a new, posthumous edition of Macdonald’s collection Discriminations: Essays and Afterthoughts (New York: Da Capo, 1985).