Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: In 1955 , Mailer , together with John Wilcock , Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf , first published The Village Voice , which began as an arts and politics oriented weekly newspaper distributed in Greenwich Village .
Simplified: In 1955 , Mailer , along with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf , first published The Village Voice , which was showed to the Greenwich Village .