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- <text id=91TT2535>
- <title>
- Nov. 11, 1991: Ghost Writing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Nov. 11, 1991 Somebody's Watching
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 79
- Ghost Writing
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By Alexander Tresniowski/Reported by Wendy Cole
- </p>
- <p> 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."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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