Is He Writing the Big One?
Roger Ebert's wire-story interview discussing Mailer's plans for the long new novel (Ancient Evenings) and his views on journalism and deadlines.
“Is He Writing the Big One?,” an article-interview by Roger Ebert (Chicago Daily News-Sun Times wire) in the Peoria Journal-Star (18 May 1974), in which Ebert discusses Mailer’s plans for the long new novel — Ancient Evenings (83.18) — and quotes him on journalism and deadlines. A February 1974 New York Times report (“Mailer Getting $1-Million for Rights to Next Novel”) had circulated erroneous details of the book, which Mailer corrected repeatedly before its 1983 publication.
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- “The Rich, Famous, Talented and Powerful Resolve” (74.1) | Roger Ebert | 1974
- Ancient Evenings (83.18)