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This incident wasn't well received in the public eye.{{cn}} They weren't amused by Mailer's published poem in 1962 indirectly poking at the stabbing. "So long as you use a knife, there's some love left."{{sfn|Mailer|1962}} | This incident wasn't well received in the public eye.{{cn}} They weren't amused by Mailer's published poem in 1962 indirectly poking at the stabbing. "So long as you use a knife, there's some love left."{{sfn|Mailer|1962}} | ||
Despite his sentence to Bellevue Hospital, he continued to spend later years facing public scrutiny of the event. {{sfn|Maggie|2017|p=4}} | |||
Susan Mailer, in her 2019 memoir, said that in her book, In Another Place: with and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, in the chapter called "Silent Spaces", says she "had no choice but to face with considerable angst what this painful episode meant to me and my family."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} admits she was afraid of her father, but she also understood her fears of him: "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} Mailer adds, "We had to deal with the shame of having a father who had almost killed his wife. A father who was famous enough so that no one ever let you forget what he had done."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} | Susan Mailer, in her 2019 memoir, said that in her book, In Another Place: with and Without My Father, Norman Mailer, in the chapter called "Silent Spaces", says she "had no choice but to face with considerable angst what this painful episode meant to me and my family."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} admits she was afraid of her father, but she also understood her fears of him: "He had stabbed his wife, my stepmother, Adele."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} Mailer adds, "We had to deal with the shame of having a father who had almost killed his wife. A father who was famous enough so that no one ever let you forget what he had done."{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=114}} | ||