Mailer on the '70s - Decade of 'Image, Skin Flicks and Porn'
Mailer's U.S. News and World Report essay summarizing his views on the 1970s, journalism, technology, and the blockbuster novel.
“Mailer on the ’70s — Decade of ‘Image, Skin Flicks and Porn,’” an essay in U.S. News and World Report (10 December 1979) summarizing Mailer’s views on the decade just ending — journalism, technology, literary perspective, and the rise of the blockbuster novel. A full transcription is held at full text.