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| [[/June 12, 1954/]] || To Robert Lindner || The trip to Mexico keeps getting put off. | | [[/June 12, 1954/]] || To Robert Lindner || The trip to Mexico keeps getting put off. | ||
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| [[/June-July 1954/]] || To Norman Mailer || It is to be hoped greatly that this my letter . . . | | [[/June-July, 1954/]] || To Norman Mailer || It is to be hoped greatly that this my letter . . . | ||
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| [[/July 16, 1954/]] || To Robert Lindner || I really enjoyed your masterpiece . . . | | [[/July 16, 1954/]] || To Robert Lindner || I really enjoyed your masterpiece . . . | ||
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| [[/June 3, 1955/]] || To Robert Lindner || That was a good talk we had on the phone . . . | | [[/June 3, 1955/]] || To Robert Lindner || That was a good talk we had on the phone . . . | ||
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| [[/July 1955/]] || To Norman Mailer || The days go by and I find myself more hard pressed . . . | | [[/July, 1955/]] || To Norman Mailer || The days go by and I find myself more hard pressed . . . | ||
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| [[/January 13, 1956/]] || To Norman Mailer || Perhaps you will forgive my silence . . . | | [[/January 13, 1956/]] || To Norman Mailer || Perhaps you will forgive my silence . . . | ||
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| [[/September 8, 2007/]] || colspan=2 | Postscript: Mailer on the death of Robert Lindner | | [[/September 8, 2007/]] || colspan=2 | Postscript: Mailer on the death of Robert Lindner | ||
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Latest revision as of 08:42, 27 April 2021
“Lipton’s Journal” cannot be fully understood outside of Mailer’s friendship with Lindner. We are lucky to have the bulk of their correspondence and can thus get a glimpse of the texture of their relationship. Robert Lindner came into Mailer’s life at a particularly difficult time—a period in which he was still reeling from a formidable blow to his ego after the failure of Barbary Shore, and was writing his new novel The Deer Park under a cloud of uncertainty. For many this would have been a good time to consider turning to a psychotherapist for help. So, perhaps it is not surprising that after reading Prescription for a Rebellion, Mailer felt compelled to write to the author. It seems that Mailer knew he had found a rare bird—a psychoanalyst who would not squelch his creativity and would help him remain a rebel with a cause. On November 18, 1952 Mailer sent his first letter to Lindner opening the gate for an intense and fertile friendship that lasted until Lindner’s untimely death in February, 1956.
Date | Letter To | First Words |
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November 18, 1952 | To Robert Lindner | I wish I had been able to write . . . |
November 24, 1952 | To Norman Mailer | I was very glad to hear from you . . . |
April 15, 1953 | To Robert Lindner | I hope you’ll excuse this long delay . . . |
February 16, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | I’ve been pushing hard into the book . . . |
February 23, 1954 | To Norman Mailer | Just receiving your letter was a great relief. |
February 26, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | I’m answering this immediately . . . |
June 7, 1954 | To Norman Mailer | It was great talking with you the other night. |
June 12, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | The trip to Mexico keeps getting put off. |
June-July, 1954 | To Norman Mailer | It is to be hoped greatly that this my letter . . . |
July 16, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | I really enjoyed your masterpiece . . . |
July 20, 1954 | To Norman Mailer | Don’t tell me we’re not simpatico! |
August 19, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | I’ve been sort of saving up and looking forward . . . |
September 15, 1954 | To Norman Mailer | Now, at last, I take my pen in hand . . . |
November 29, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | Just a shortie to tell you what a good time . . . |
December 7, 1954 | To Norman Mailer | The fact that you left a number of things . . . |
December 20, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | More notes from the journal. |
December 31, 1954 | To Robert Lindner | Happy New Year. |
January 20, 1955 | To Robert Lindner | Some more of the journal. |
January 27, 1955 | To Norman Mailer | O tried to call you last night . . . |
February 3, 1955 | To Norman Mailer | I have been so tremendously excited . . . |
March 14, 1955 | To Norman Mailer | It’s been so long since I heard from you . . . |
March 15, 1955 | To Norman Mailer | Either you wrote those two notes in a paranoid fog . . . |
March 29, 1955 | To Norman Mailer | Your manuscript is being mailed today . . . |
April 22, 1955 | To Robert Lindner | Just a note to tell you how good . . . |
April 25, 1955 | To Robert Lindner | I came over to my studio today . . . |
June 3, 1955 | To Robert Lindner | That was a good talk we had on the phone . . . |
July, 1955 | To Norman Mailer | The days go by and I find myself more hard pressed . . . |
January 13, 1956 | To Norman Mailer | Perhaps you will forgive my silence . . . |
September 8, 2007 | Postscript: Mailer on the death of Robert Lindner |