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Dear Eiichi,<ref> Mailer never met Eiichi Yaminishi, his longtime Japanese translator. The book referred to in the first paragraph is ''The Presidential Papers'', which was published on 8 November 1963. It contains his account of the first heavyweight boxing match between [[w:Floyd Patterson|Floyd Patterson]] (1935-) and [[w:Sonny Liston|Sonny Liston]](1932-1970) on 25 September 1962, titled ''Ten Thousand Words a Minute'', first published in [[w:Esquire|Esquire]] in February 1963. Mailer did not incorporate an account of the second fight into ''An American Dream'' (the “short novel”), but the fact that he was considering doing so shows how open-ended his plan was at this point. He did, however, use portions of an essay tracing his cross-country trip with Beverly Bentley in the summer of 1963, including his stop in Las Vegas for the fight, in the novel’s epilogue. Mailer submitted each installment two months before ''Esquire''’s publication date (two weeks earlier than the month on the cover), except for the last three, all of which were late. The final installment was about ten days late.<ref> | Dear Eiichi,<ref> Mailer never met Eiichi Yaminishi, his longtime Japanese translator. The book referred to in the first paragraph is ''The Presidential Papers'', which was published on 8 November 1963. It contains his account of the first heavyweight boxing match between [[w:Floyd Patterson|Floyd Patterson]] (1935-) and [[w:Sonny Liston|Sonny Liston]](1932-1970) on 25 September 1962, titled ''Ten Thousand Words a Minute'', first published in [[w:Esquire|Esquire]] in February 1963. Mailer did not incorporate an account of the second fight into ''An American Dream'' (the “short novel”), but the fact that he was considering doing so shows how open-ended his plan was at this point. He did, however, use portions of an essay tracing his cross-country trip with Beverly Bentley in the summer of 1963, including his stop in Las Vegas for the fight, in the novel’s epilogue. Mailer submitted each installment two months before ''Esquire''’s publication date (two weeks earlier than the month on the cover), except for the last three, all of which were late. The final installment was about ten days late.</ref> | ||
This is just a quick note, for as always I have much too much mail to answer. There should be copies of the book in another two weeks, and I’ve left instructions at Putnam’s that they are to send out one of the very first copies they receive from the printer to you. If I’d realized it was going to take this long I would have sent you the galleys, but believe me, Eiichi, the book was not attractive in galleys and I preferred for you to wait until you saw the finished version. | This is just a quick note, for as always I have much too much mail to answer. There should be copies of the book in another two weeks, and I’ve left instructions at Putnam’s that they are to send out one of the very first copies they receive from the printer to you. If I’d realized it was going to take this long I would have sent you the galleys, but believe me, Eiichi, the book was not attractive in galleys and I preferred for you to wait until you saw the finished version. | ||