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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

Statement on Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab. New York Times Magazine, 29 October, 51. Accompanying a full-page color photograph of Mailer costumed as Ahab is this statement by Mailer: “Many a novelist has a touch of the monomaniac and Ahab is the monster of us all.”

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