The "Big Bite"
Seventh installment of The Big Bite. Comment on the coming 'architectural plague.' Reprinted partial in The Presidential Papers (63.37).
The “Big Bite.” Esquire, May 1963, 37, 40. Column. Comment on the coming “architectural plague” — the postwar American urban-renewal building boom that Mailer would treat at length in later essays, including “The Big Bite — June, 1963” (63.7, the “decline of the novel” piece) and the long Esquire essay “The Last Bandits of the New Jersey Turnpike” (later 70s). Rpt: The Presidential Papers (63.37, partial).