The Talent and the Torment
Frederick Christian's Cosmopolitan article-interview — described by Lennon as 'sketchy and sensationalized overview of Mailer's personal and literary life.' Contains accounts of several meetings with Mailer during the period he lived in Connecticut, and a 1963 interview in which Mailer discusses his involvement with the Actors' Studio in New York. A letter to Christian from Mailer's Harvard professor, Theodore Morrison, is quoted.
“The Talent and the Torment.” Article-interview by Frederick Christian. Cosmopolitan, August 1963, 63–67.
Sketchy and sensationalized overview of Mailer’s personal and literary life. Contains accounts of several meetings with Mailer during the period he lived in Bridgewater, Connecticut (the 1956 sojourn), and a 1963 interview in which Mailer discusses his involvement with the Actors’ Studio in New York — a connection germane to his fourth-wife-to-be Beverly Bentley, herself an Actors Studio actress, whom he had met in March 1963. A letter to Christian from Mailer’s Harvard professor, Theodore Morrison, is quoted.