Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Tom Wolfe

American journalist and a leading figure of the New Journalism; his review "Son of Crime and Punishment" (Book Week, 14 March 1965) was a prominent early attack on An American Dream.

Tom Wolfe, the American journalist and a leading practitioner of the New Journalism that Mailer himself helped shape, reviewed An American Dream on the cover of Book Week (Washington Post) on 14 March 1965, the day before publication: “Son of Crime and Punishment, or: How to Go Eight Fast Rounds with the Heavyweight Champ and Lose.

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