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 that Why Are We in Vietnam? may actually be that novel, but I’ll leave it to future critics to explore how it would have appealed to the sensibilities of the other writers mentioned. I’m going to focus on Hemingway, because apart from echoes of Joyce’s style, his influence here seems most prevalent.
-As Laura Adams observes, “three of the most powerful influences on Mailer’s scheme of things have been war and Ernest Hemingway and the intersection of the two” (173){{sfn|Mailer|1976}}. Mailer told an interviewer that Hemingway’s death made him feel “a little weaker” (''Conversations'' 71){{sfn|Hemingway|1986}}, no doubt because he had felt a connection. Like Hemingway, Mailer wrote about boxing, he
+As Laura Adams observes, “three of the most powerful influences on Mailer’s scheme of things have been war and Ernest Hemingway and the intersection of the two” (173){{sfn|Adams|1976}}. Mailer told an interviewer that Hemingway’s death made him feel “a little weaker” (''Conversations'' 71){{sfn|Hemingway|1986}}, no doubt because he had felt a connection. Like Hemingway, Mailer wrote about boxing, he
 wrote about bullfighting, he talked tough, he hung out with tough friends, he went to war, he wrote about war, he backed the underdog, he infuriated feminist#{{pg|194|195}}
 take special delight in writing fiction that shocked readers or showcased his “insider” knowledge. “Hemingway and Fitzgerald are important imaginative figures in my life,” Mailer told the ''Washington Post Book World'' in 1971, explaining that “in Hemingway and Fitzgerald, it’s the sensuous evocation of things. The effect on the gut is closer to poetry” (''Conversations'' 189){{sfn|Hemingway|1986}}.