The Mary McCarthy Case
Mailer's review of The Group, by Mary McCarthy — 'Perhaps Mailer's finest book review,' per Lennon. Reprinted as 'The Case Against McCarthy' in Cannibals and Christians (66.11).
“The Mary McCarthy Case.” New York Review of Books, 17 October 1963, 1–3. Review of The Group, by Mary McCarthy (Harcourt Brace, 1963). “Perhaps Mailer’s finest book review,” per Lennon. The piece is one of Mailer’s most direct engagements with a contemporary woman novelist — coming a year after his contentious encounter with McCarthy at the Edinburgh Conference in August 1962 (62.24). Rpt: as “The Case Against McCarthy” in Cannibals and Christians (66.11).
Related pages
- 1963 | The New York Review of Books | Mary McCarthy | Edinburgh International Writers' Conference, 1962
- Cannibals and Christians (66.11)