Norman Mailer: Works and Days

The Week in Books (14 March 1965)

Martha MacGregor's column including quotes from Mailer's question-and-answer session with reporters at the National Book Awards ceremony, including his comment on Saul Bellow's Herzog.

A column by Martha MacGregor including quotes from Mailer’s question-and-answer session with reporters at the National Book Awards ceremony, including his comment on the winning novel, Saul Bellow’s Herzog: “There is something Russian about Herzog in its depth of feeling. There are plenty of faults, but my heart was literally burning as I read.”

First published: 1965-03-14
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 65.6
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