85.8

“Mailer Earns Praise for PEN Efforts.” Article-interview by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 23 December, Sec. C, p. 12. Comment on Mailer’s role as organizer and fundraiser for the 12–18 January 1986 PEN Congress. Mailer also reveals that he is “working on a long novel whose subject I would prefer to keep a secret.” See 85.1, 85.2, 85.6, 85.9, winter and spring 1986 entries.