TLS signed “Norman,” one page, 8.5 x 11, August 15, 1971. Letter to his editor at Little, Brown and Co. In full: “128,000 words is more than I thought. And as you know I have no great love for the Playboy interview, but I have a dim recollection of cutting it in such a way that the subjects had some relation to the rest of the book, so if length is a problem, I think it would be best for me to read the entire book in galleys and then look hard at what should be cut. I would suggest to you that one advantage of the length is to forestall any comments that it was necessary to work and scrape to eke out this collection. But of course I must admit the critics are one step ahead of me these days. The summer has been hot in Vermont, ferocious in fact, with hordes of bugs. But meditation proceeds. Of course I never know what I’m up to until I start. Novels and bitches could form their own club.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds and a pencil line through greeting. The suggestions Mailer discusses in this letter are for Existential Errands, a collection of twenty-eight selections from his writings over a five-year period, published in 1972. The subjects include boxing, bullfighting, movies, foreign wars, black power, his famous account of the Ali-Frazier fight, and the making of his movie, Maidstone. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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