True Encounters in My Literary Career: Norman Mailer
November 12th, 2007 by Jeremy Keehn in The Bironist
In a room at the Cambridge Hiatt, shortly after I arrived to accompany Mr. Mailer to his keynote address for a Harvard conference.
Mailer (pulling on a shoe with some difficulty): It’s no fun getting old.
Me: No kidding.
(With apologies to David Ng’s “True Encounters in My Research Career,” in our September 2007 issue.)
A post on Mailer’s boxing writing to follow tomorrow.
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