Alan Earney, November 4, 1963: Difference between revisions

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Apparently the situation is not so final as I thought when writing to you last. I was under the impression that Mayflower had bought the rights to ''An American Dream'' (which is the title of the novel under discussion)<ref>The public was informed of the novel’s title in Mailer’s final “Big Bite” column in ''Esquire'', December 1963, which was on newsstands in mid-November before the assassination of [[w:JFK|President Kennedy]]. Mailer had written the column much earlier, of course, turning it in to the magazine in mid-September.</ref> but it seems that they merely have an option to give a first bid and match any counter bid, so I don’t know that we’re necessarily closed off from one another altogether. Anyway, let’s see how the book turns out. In the meantime,