After attacking Michiko Kakutani in a Rolling Stone interview, Norman Mailer has himself come under attack by Dallas Morning News reporter Esther Wu, who is president of the Asian American Journalists Association. The interview is not available online, but as a Daily Telegraph article by Harry Mount recaps, Mailer said of The New York Times’ lead book critic, “She is a one-woman kamikaze. She disdains white male writers, and I am her number one favourite target. She trashes it just to hurt sales and embarrass the author. But the Times editors can’t fire her. They’re terrified of her. With discrimination rules and such, well, she’s a threefer: Asiatic, feminist and, ah, what’s the third? Well. Let’s just call her a twofer.” He also called her a “token.” Now, as Lloyd Grove reports in his Lowdown column for The New York Daily News, Wu has written a letter to Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner saying, “Calling out Norman Mailer as a racist . . . would be easy. . . . We take greater offense at his reference to her as a ‘two-fer’ and a ‘token’ because she’s ‘Asiatic, feminist,’ which essentially diminishes the accomplishments of all women and journalists . . . To Mr. Mailer, we’d simply like to say: Shame on you.” Mailer tells Grove the letter is “an excellent example of high-octane political correctness.” Kakutani had no comment.