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The Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer. An American Dream by Norman Mailer. Perhaps this is where things fell apart. For Mailer, life was a competition. For Baldwin, it was a survival. Mailer was always ready for a fight, even begged for them he once stabbed Adele and was known for participating in head-butting contests.

Baldwin, thin and barely 5 feet 6 inches tall, was not as eager to tussle. But if painted into a corner, he would lash out. He was too proud to be humiliated. When he was a teen, he threw a glass of water at a white waitress for refusing him service in a restaurant he knew would never serve him. If challenged, Baldwin would fight back.

It arrived in the form of the massive and massively self-involved Advertisements for Myself. In this tome, Mailer, more or less, declared himself the hottest thing in the literary world. And in doing so, he dragged down a coterie of other writers, one paragraph at a time. Baldwin was one of those writers he trashed.

Mailer, on Baldwin in Advertisements: James Baldwin is too charming a writer to be major […] even the best of his paragraphs are sprayed with perfume.

If he ever climbs the mountain, and really tells it, we will have a testament, and not a noble toilet water.

Until then he is doomed to be minor. These were fighting words, certainly. Gossip, practically. It read like a letter of unrequited love. How it really works, in detail. For Norman, this was all still a game.

For Baldwin, this was still survival. And if you pass on all three counts, if you win the arm-wrestle, culture derby and short-hair count, well then if he is a decent sort he usually feels you should run for President. But all this has happened in the first place because your reputation is uncertain, your name is locked in the elevators of publicity and public fashion, and so your meetings with every man and woman around become charged and overcharged.

In all of this, Mailer could not grasp that the world was changing. He borrowed money from anyone and everyone and spent it all on booze and parties. Baldwin was insecure. But Baldwin admitted to his insecurity. Mailer was always running for President. How do you see Mailer? Baldwin: Well, Mailer is something I've been desperately trying to avoid. Laughs All I can say is that - well, one of the hazards of being an American writer, and I'm well placed to know it, is that eventually you have nothing to write about.

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