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“Norman Mailer Bridges the Divides of Age.” Article by Howard Goodman. Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA), 14 May, 3E. Report on Mailer’s appearance in Bruce Kuklick’s history class at University of Pennsylvania, where he told the students that writing “history is exactly like novel writing”; and “Everything has been misreported from the beginning of time, including the Old Testament and the New Testament, which are perfect examples of egregious misreporting of whatever-it-is.” The students were “startled.”