The "Big Bite"
Second installment of The Big Bite. Comments on the suicides of the spy Henry Soblen and Ernest Hemingway, and on American heroism as manifested by astronaut John Glenn. Accompanied in the same issue by 62.20, the poem 'Sing the Ballad of the Sad Saint.' Rpt: The Presidential Papers (63.37, partial, and without 62.20), 13.1.
The “Big Bite.” Esquire, December 1962, 168. Column, second in a series.
Comment on the suicides of the spy Henry Soblen (Soviet espionage agent who fled extradition and took his own life in transit, 11 September 1962) and Ernest Hemingway, and on American heroism as manifested by astronaut John Glenn (whose Mercury orbital flight earlier in 1962 had made him a national hero). Accompanied in the same issue by 62.20, Mailer’s poem “Sing the Ballad of the Sad Saint.” Rpt: The Presidential Papers (63.37, partial, and without 62.20), 13.1.
Related pages
- 1962 | Esquire | The "Big Bite" | Sing the Ballad of the Sad Saint
- The "Big Bite" (62.18) | The "Big Bite" (63.2) | The "Big Bite" (63.13)
- The Presidential Papers (63.37)