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Frontmatter Home Preface Introduction Introduction to the Digital Edition
Bibliographies First Editions Key Texts for Mailer Studies Bibliographies Biographies Criticism Cultural Backgrounds
Works Works Index NM’s Introductions The Big Bite Mailer for Mayor Abbott Affair
Days Days Index Important Dates
Further Reading Norman Mailer's Bestsellers
Index Index of Names Works Categories Days Categories
Books • Projects

“Norman M. Praises Norman R.” New York Newsday, 24 May, Sec. B, p. 7. Excerpt from letter read at a 17 May memorial ceremony for Brooklyn poet laureate, Norman Rosten, whom Mailer called “the quintessence” of the “good guy” from Brooklyn.