Norman Mailer has reportedly sold his archive to the University of Texas for the tidy sum of $2.5m “despite his fears for the political future of the state”:
“I have always had the most intense feelings about Texas, both pro and con,” he said. “In a funny way what I am saying about America that I love it and hate it when it goes bad on me, I can say about Texas. The country has been living over a huge cultural divide – half the people in America want more freedom, more liberty, more moral flexibility and half the people in the country thinks its gotten much too wild and loose and has to be closed.”
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