Irving J. Weiss, August 26, 1965

NORMAN MAILER’s Letters

607 Commercial Street

Provincetown, Massachusetts

August 26, 1965

Dear Mr. Weiss,^[1]

By the time your letter was forwarded, it was August 19. But then in any case I couldn’t have heard your reading of de Chazal, since I’ve been up here in Provincetown trying to work on a novel, and don’t get WBAI as far as I know. At any rate, this gives me an opportunity to thank you for your letter, because it’s the first to come from somebody who did not like An American Dream at first and then went through the odd barrier of the book to like it. Most people seemed either to like it very much or to dislike it very much, and make that the end of it.

Also, this is to ask you when and where your translation of Sens-Plastique^[2] will appear.

Yours sincerely,

Norman Mailer

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Notes

↑ A literary host at a radio station in New York, Weiss sought Mailer’s involvement in a couple of literary projects.
↑ A 1945 collection of unnumbered aphorisms by Malcolm de Chazal that brought him to prominence in France.

[1] A literary host at a radio station in New York, Weiss sought Mailer’s involvement in a couple of literary projects.

[2] A 1945 collection of unnumbered aphorisms by Malcolm de Chazal that brought him to prominence in France.

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v t e Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969
Introduction Timeline of Events Word Count Comparison Bibliography
1963	Gutierres-Olivos 09/18 Deutsch 10/15 Earney 10/15 Whittemore 10/15 Yaminishi 10/16 Morris 10/21 Deutsch 11/4 Earney 11/4 Naiman 11/5 Gwaltney 11/9 Yaminishi 11/26 Skellings 11/26 Susskind 11/26 Shoultz 12/11 Yaminishi 12/15 Knox 12/17 Gwaltney 12/20 Kleeman 12/20
1964	Carpenter 1/15 Bourjaily 1/16 Yaminishi 1/17 Breit 2/11 Knox 2/17 Schultz 2/17 Yaminishi 2/19 Gregory 3/16 Lea 3/17 Peretz 3/17 Deutsch 4/16 Mailer 4/17 Knox 4/19 Gwaltney 5/15 Carpenter 6/1 Casanova 6/2 Knox 6/2 Athill 7/5 Hamill 7/6 Yaminishi 7/7 Athill 8/21 Lucid 9/24 Carpenter 10/5 Deutsch 11/4 Whitby 12/15 Kemp 12/18 Knox 12/18 McLaughlin 12/18 Mangrum 12/21
1965	Yaminishi 1/27 Athill 2/25 Kluger 3/22 Athill 3/23 Earney 3/23 Epstein 3/25 Carpenter 3/25 Trilling 3/25 Trilling 4/06 Kaufmann 4/20 Aldridge 4/23 Mailer 4/23 Aldridge 6/8 Corrington 6/8 Shattuck 6/8 Trilling 6/8 Meixner 6/12 Trilling 7/14 Aldridge 8/17 Weiss 8/26
1966	Abel 2/28 Rubin 3/24 Wells 4/16 Abrams 9/24 Udoff 9/24 Weber 9/24 Mailer 9/25 Sternlicht 9/26
1969	Burnett, n.d.
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