Mailer Retells the Greatest Story Ever
Bob Minzesheimer's USA Today interview (8 September 1997) on The Gospel According to the Son; Mailer lists the theologians he read (Elaine Pagels, Robert Funk, John Meier) and announces work on a literary retrospective (The Time of Our Time, 98.7).
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“Mailer Retells the Greatest Story Ever,” Bob Minzesheimer’s interview, ran in USA Today on 8 September 1997, around the British publication of The Gospel According to the Son. Mailer names the theologians he read — Elaine Pagels, Robert Funk, John Meier — and announces that he is at work on a retrospective, the best of his fiction and nonfiction (The Time of Our Time, 98.7).
A full transcription, held in the working archive pending rights clearance, is at full text.