Norman Mailer: Works and Days

For Whom the Will Toils

Mailer's letter to the Boston Globe (14 March 2002) skewering George F. Will for likening George W. Bush's prose to Hemingway's: it is 'equal to say that Jackie Susann is right up there with Jane Austen.'

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“For Whom the Will Toils,” Mailer’s letter to the Boston Globe (14 March 2002, A14), skewers the columnist George F. Will for equating George W. Bush’s prose with Ernest Hemingway’s — to do so, Mailer writes, “is equal to say that Jackie Susann is right up there with Jane Austen.” Reprinted in Mind of an Outlaw (14.3).

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First published: 2002-03-14
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 02.5
Cite as: /works/2002-03-14-for-whom-the-will-toils
Last updated: 2026-06-06