The Sophomores at Notre Dame
Granville Hicks's account of the Notre Dame Sophomore Literary Festival, unusually kind to Mailer; he liked Mailer's reading from The Armies of the Night.
An account by Granville Hicks of the Notre Dame Sophomore Literary Festival, in which Hicks, Mailer, Vonnegut, Wright Morris, Joseph Heller, Ralph Ellison, and William F. Buckley took part. Hicks — usually a Mailer detractor — is unusually kind, and praises Mailer’s reading from The Armies of the Night, quoting his line on Johnson: “Better to have a President who is large and evil than one who is small and ignoble.”