Life with Mailer
James Atlas's New York Times Magazine cover profile of Mailer as The Executioner's Song appeared - the longest biographical essay on him since Brock Brower's 1965 Life piece.
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“Life with Mailer,” a biographical article by James Atlas in the New York Times Magazine (9 September 1979), with a cover photograph of Mailer — the longest biographical essay on him since Brock Brower’s 1965 Life piece (65.20). Like Brower, Atlas concentrates on whether Mailer will make good on his early promise to write “the great American novel”; Mailer’s family and friends are quoted. A full transcription (rights pending) is held at full text.