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Vanities
Norman's Conquest
Vanities
Norman's Conquest
Norman's Conquest
Landlubbin' Norman Mailer wowed an authorial academy (William Styron, Erica Jong, E. L. Doctorow, and the Johns—Irving and Updike) as Poets & Writers, Inc., celebrated its fifteenth anniversary with a bash at the Big Apple Circus. Thus spake the orating rake: "You are about to witness a very rare event—a very good novelist reciting a not very good poem while riding a Bongo Board in a one-ring circus."
A.J.
