My favorite story about that was that the publisher of The Naked and the Dead substituted "fug" for "fuck" without Mailer's consent, reasoning that mid-20th century America wasn't quite ready for the F-word in mainstream lit, but anyone adult enough to know would figure it out. Mailer complained that it made him look like an idiot, recalling some time later he was introduced to Miss Bette Davis, and she called him "the young man that doesn't know how to spell 'fuck'!"

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