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- PEOPLE, Page 79Ghost Writing
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- By ALEXANDER TRESNIOWSKI/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Like a bear, tough guy Norman Mailer is dangerous when
- wounded. After his hefty novel Harlot's Ghost received a
- painfully mixed review from John Simon in the New York Times
- Book Review, an aggrieved Mailer fought back. He gathered
- "evidence" of Simon's bias against him, threw his weight around
- in a meeting with the Times last week, and finally persuaded the
- editors to give "prominent play" to a lengthy rebuttal in the
- Nov. 17 edition, a rare occurrence. "He has a very thin skin,"
- jabs Simon, but Mailer disagrees. "I'm very thick-skinned about
- reviews. I don't normally go around complaining," he says. "But
- this is a special case."
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