The Joy of Bricks
Anthony Lane's New Yorker article on Lego (4 May 1998), which opens with Mailer's living-room Lego construction 'Vertical City' and quotes him on building.
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“The Joy of Bricks,” Anthony Lane’s New Yorker article on Lego (4 May 1998, 96–103), opens with a color photograph of Mailer’s living-room Lego construction, “Vertical City” — the same image that had appeared on the dust-wrapper of Cannibals and Christians (66.11) — and quotes him on the pleasures of building.
A full transcription, held in the working archive pending rights clearance, is at full text.