86.27

“When PEN Pals Collide.” Article by David Lehman. Partisan Review 53 (no. 2), 190–199. Balanced overview of the PEN Congress, including comment on the media coverage of the event. Mailer is quoted throughout. Two other articles on the PEN Congress appear in this number of Partisan Review, by Czeslaw Milosz and Adam Zagajewski, respectively. Mailer is not quoted in either. See 85.1, 85.2, 85.6, 85.8, 85.9 and 1986 entries.