MAILER NORMAN Typed Letter Signed to literature student Dian

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MAILER, NORMAN. Typed Letter Signed, to literature student Diane Costello, pointing out that an error in a critical essay discourages one from reading further. 1/2 page, 4to; horizontal folds. With the original envelope. Np, 26 April 1991

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"I didn't get very far reading your paper since you had me writing The Man Who Studied Yoga in 1963 (15 years after The Naked and the Dead) when in fact it was written in 1951, three years later. A critic who can make an error like that does discourage further attention."
with--Diane Costello's 8-page essay analyzing Mailer's "The Man Who Studied Yoga" and Costello's letter sending it to Mailer. Stamford, CT, 1 April 1991.