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Voice Readers React to Mailer’s Early Columns
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Norman Mailer certainly wasn’t looking to build any friends in his foremost column for The Village Speech.
That numerous of you are frustrated in your ambitions, and undernourished in your pleasures, sole makes me more poisonous. Completely rightly. If I at all establish myself in your position, I would not be generous either. Still, stated your general animus to those more gifted than yourselves, the sole way I perceive myself enhancing one of the cherished traditions of the Village is to be actively disliked each week.
And most readers didn’t grip too kindly to his I’d-hate-me-if-I-were-you-too shtick either. They said so in letters to the Speech.
