Do Facts and Fiction Mix?
Michiko Kakutani's New York Times Book Review round-up on mixing fact and fiction in narrative; Mailer defends The Executioner's Song as a novel - 'God was at least as good a novelist as I am.'
“Do Facts and Fiction Mix?,” an article-interview by Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times Book Review (27 January 1980), a round-up — with Irving Howe, William Styron, E. L. Doctorow, William Shawn, and others — on how fact and fiction should mix in narrative. Mailer defends The Executioner’s Song (79.14) as a novel: “God was at least as good a novelist as I am.”