Author Archives: Jack Mabley

To the Reader: Thank you for running my letter [November 3]. To Paul Carroll [Letters, November 3], if I told you at a cocktail party (which I never attend) that I was wrong (which I don’t remember), I take it back. I was right. To Cheap Shot Lewis Koch [Letters, November 3], it’s impugn, not […]

To the Reader: I seem to be the villain in the Reader article titled “Naked Censorship” [September 29 and October 6]. Phrases applied to me and my 1958 column about the Chicago Review included “simpleminded,” “weird, fascinating aberration,” anti-intellectual Philistine, “sensationalism,” “just a simp,” “excited,” “coy.” Hot Type [September 29] joined in with “hysterical.” Writer […]