Joseph Lennon, remembrance
Joseph Lennon's remembrance in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023) contrasts a quiet last dinner with Mailer in Provincetown around 2005 with the crowded party after a 1987 reading in Iowa City.
Joseph Lennon’s contribution to Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (p. 39) sets two evenings side by side. One is a quiet last dinner with Mailer in Provincetown in 2005 or 2006, when “he could have been my uncle.” The other is the fall of 1987, when Lennon, an undergraduate, drove from Galesburg, Illinois, to hear Mailer read in Iowa City and saw the crowd around him at the party afterward: “how fame bends gravity around a star.”
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