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“The Hazards and Sources of Writing.” Michigan Quarterly Review 24 (summer), 391–402. Expanded, revised version of “A Sinister Occupation” (81.9) given as a Hopwood Lecture at the University of Michigan, April 1984. Mailer’s longest essay on his craft and his most important uncollected essay. Rpt: Speaking of Writing: Selected Hopwood Lectures, edited by Nicholas Delbanco. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990; 13.1.