'Yes, I Misbehaved Sometimes'
Zoe Heller's Daily Telegraph interview (3 March 2003), focused on Mailer and women; revisiting his attacks on women writers in Advertisements for Myself — 'Look, I got carried away. I didn't edit myself as carefully as I do these days.'
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Zoe Heller’s Daily Telegraph interview (3 March 2003, 19), an omnibus piece focused on Mailer and women. Asked about his notorious comments on women writers in Advertisements for Myself (59.13), he answers: “Look, I got carried away. I didn’t edit myself as carefully as I do these days. I happened to grow up in a family with a lot of wonderful adoring women.”
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