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{{New edition|url=https://worksdays.normanmailer.us/works/1965-an-american-dream-reception#reader-letters|text=Bill Powers's letter is now on the page for the reception of ''An American Dream'' in ''Norman Mailer: Works and Days''.}} | |||
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===Definition of Selfhood<ref>Letter to the Editor, ''Saturday Review'', June 6, 1965</ref>=== | ===Definition of Selfhood<ref>Letter to the Editor, ''Saturday Review'', June 6, 1965</ref>=== | ||
While I cannot determine just what a literary hoax is, judging from the whirlings and groans of the reviewers, ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', Mar. 20] must be a real apostasy. The entire literary community has adopted a posture of shocked betrayal. Mr. Hicks in particular writes like a spurned lover or, more to the point, a disappointed investor. ... | While I cannot determine just what a literary hoax is, judging from the whirlings and groans of the reviewers, ''An American Dream'' [''SR'', Mar. 20] must be a real apostasy. The entire literary community has adopted a posture of shocked betrayal. Mr. Hicks in particular writes like a spurned lover or, more to the point, a disappointed investor. ... | ||