Gore Vidal vs Norman Mailer - The Dick Cavett Show - The Infamous feud between them. [View all]

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Date aired - 12/1/1971 - Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer, Janet Flanner

Dick Cavett discusses the clash of Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal on this show

The Writer in America: Janet Flanner

In 1925 Flanner sent her first "Letter from Paris" to Harold Ross, the editor of a new magazine "The New Yorker." Providing Flanner with the pen name, Genet, Ross instructed her to write about what the French were thinking and doing, not about what the American tourist thought of Paris. During almost fifty years abroad, Flanner filled her Paris letters with insights on European society and politics from her perspective as an American