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Contribution to Happy Birthday, Kurt Vonnegut: A Festschrift for Kurt Vonnegut on His Sixtieth Birthday, compiled by Jill Krementz, 99. New York: Delacorte. Five hundred numbered copies. In 147 words, Mailer talks of his pleasure in dining with Vonnegut, who “is almost a dead ringer in physical appearance for Mark Twain.”