Norman Mailer’s ex-mistress has donated sold some of her personal papers that give accounts of her sex life with Norman. Harvard? Norman would visit Carole weekly and give her writing lessons then screw her brains out apparently. Were the writing lessons free? In kind?
Mallory recalls the principles Mailer emphasized, such as: keep the dialogue punchy; stay away from adverbs; and don’t lecture the reader.
No word on the principles of sex that Norman taught Carole. Perhaps something on the order of: keep the foreplay short and sweet, stay away from anal sex, and don’t forget the condoms. This will be valuable information for some Doctoral thesis.
Carole Mallory also has given Harvard her own memoir that includes one 50-page sex scene that was a writing exercise assigned by Randy Norman. One wonders if, in the later years, there was more reading of sex scenes than actual sex.
