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“Picasso Couldn’t Box, but He Could Paint Like Hell, Says Norman Mailer.” Article-interview by Bruce Barcott. Seattle Weekly, 25 October, 19. Mailer, in Provincetown, is interviewed by telephone in anticipation of his appearance at the Seattle Art Museum on 28 October, where he lectured on Picasso and read from 95.38. He explains how he spent two months in 1962 looking at every page in Christian Zervos’s 33-volume collection of Picasso’s paintings and drawings.