Mark Athitakis’ American Fiction Notes

Editors: Important

April 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment

“At one point Mailer changes his mistress’s prose from ’stick that up your English tushy’ to ’stick that up your Hungarian bottom’. He also recommends that Mallory delete a reference to ‘nibbling his bullets.’” —From a London Times article providing more details about the relationship between Norman Mailer and Carole Mallory, who recently sold her personal papers to Harvard University. Among those papers is a memoir of her affair with Mailer, with Mailer’s handwritten edits.

Categories: Norman Mailer

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