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“An Appeal to Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy.” New York Times Book Review, 11 May, 1, 33. In an open letter, Mailer appeals to his two friends to end their quarrel, which culminated with Hellman’s defamation suit against McCarthy for saying of Hellman, on the Dick Cavett show, “every word she writes is a lie.”