And it wasn’t writing books either.
Harvard gets papers that detail Mailer’s sex life with mistress
Carole Mallory saved seven boxes of material she said she collected during Mailer’s weekly visits between 1983 to 1992, while Mailer was married to his sixth and last wife, Norris Church.
“We’d have a writing lesson, we’d make love and then go to lunch in whatever order that would be, and I saved all the writing lessons,” said Mallory, 66. “I wanted him to teach me to be a writer. He was one of our greatest writers in America.”
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“I don’t believe in shame,” Mallory said. “I believe in making love and love. I’m not going to go around and harbor secrets or shame about … loving someone. And I don’t think sex is something to be ashamed of.”
Oh, of course not! Shame! What a sweet, old-fashioned notion.
Besides being Mailer’s full-time sex object, Mallory also believes in profiting from a famous (and ugly as sin) author’s writings.
She’s definitely not ashamed of THAT.
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