Introduction to Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture
Mailer's introduction to Abbie Hoffman's autobiography Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture; later revised as the foreword to The Best of Abbie Hoffman.
Mailer’s introduction (pp. xii–xv) to Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, the autobiography of Abbie Hoffman (Perigee Books, G. P. Putnam’s, 1980). Reprinted, with slight changes made after Hoffman’s 1989 suicide, as the foreword to The Best of Abbie Hoffman (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989); also in The Time of Our Time (98.7, partial). A full transcription is held at full text.