It's true that Norman Mailer had a "short relationship" with The Village Voice after helping found it in 1955, as Voice editor in chief Tony Ortega told Media Mob earlier today, by way of explaining his paper's decision to mark Mailer's death with only a 1200-word obit on an inside page. The incendiary weekly column he wrote for the paper only lasted a few months, and once he gave that up—apparently he couldn’t take all the typographical errors--he pretty much checked out.

But according to one of Mailer's two co-founders, Edward Fancher, he was quite devoted to the paper while he worked there.

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