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Sat 07 Jul 2009In the steps of Mailer
A WRITER'S SUMMER:This month, seven inaugural Norman Mailer fellows gathered at the writer’s home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Irish writer BRIAN LEYDENwas among them and here he reports on the experience
PROVINCETOWN, Massachusetts, is a gay and lesbian town, a pool party, dance party, beach party, and leather event town. Its houses are sweetly colonial in style, spruce, timber-framed with shingles, dormers, Doric and roman porticos, porches with easy chairs and white picket fences so perfect you expect to meet James Stewart doffing his cap to Katharine Hepburn.
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