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“Writer Wins for Unread Novel.” Article-interview by Cynthia Heimel. New York, 4 June, 9. Short piece about an event, attended by Mary and Margaux Hemingway, honoring Reuben Bercovitch, who won an Ernest Hemingway Foundation PEN Award for his first novel, Hasen. Introducing the author, Mailer said, “The exquisite pain of girding oneself to go out and face the world with one’s first novel.”