59.15

“2 Symposium Authors Say Write for Elite, Not Masses.” Article-interview by Dorthy Collin. The Daily Iowan, 5 December, 1. Report on the first day of a symposium, “The Writer in a Mass Culture,” co-sponsored by Esquire magazine and the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop, 4-5 December. Mailer is quoted on the corruption of American writers by the mass media. See 59.16, 59.17, 59.18, 83.10.