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Norman Mailer: Works and Days
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“Tough Guys Don’t Dance.” Vanity Fair, May, 74–90, 105–106. Advance excerpt (one of two, see 84.7) from novel of same title (84.17). Accompanied by Irving Penn’s photograph of Mailer. Rpt: Appearing six months before the novel, this excerpt consists of chapters 1 and 2 of the published novel, with only a few small changes.