The Rich, Famous, Talented and Powerful Resolve...
Deirdre Carmody's New Year's New York Times feature in which notables give their objectives for the coming year; Mailer's reply: 'To work on a novel.... Just those five words, to work on a novel.'
“The Rich, Famous, Talented and Powerful Resolve … ,” an article-interview by Deirdre Carmody in the New York Times (1 January 1974), gathering New Year’s objectives from a dozen-odd notables — Senator Sam Ervin, David Rockefeller, Ralph Nader, Julia Child, and others. Mailer’s full reply, on the novel that would become Ancient Evenings (83.18): “To work on a novel … . Just those five words, to work on a novel.”