The Mailer Review/Volume 10, 2016/The Collision: Difference between revisions

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{{notice|Written in January 1933, when Mailer was ten-years-old.}}

{{quote box|title=A Note on “The Collision,” Mailer’s First Short Story|width=40%|In the fall of 1932, the Mailer family — Barney and Fanny, and their children, Norman (who turned ten the following January), and Barbara (six in April) — moved from Flatbush, to another section of Brooklyn, Crown Heights, a middle-class Jewish neighborhood about a mile from Ebbets Field and Prospect Park. The Mailers remained there until the summer of 1943, when they moved to Pierrepont Street in Brooklyn Heights. Working in his second-floor bedroom at 555 Crown Street during the winter of 1933–34, Mailer wrote his most important juvenile work, “The Martian Invasion, a 35,000-word science fiction novel which had one root in the Buck Rogers radio show, and a second in the Princess of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Barbara remembers her brother encouraging her to read this series, which she also gulped down.

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