A Man Half Full
Mailer's New York Review of Books review of Tom Wolfe's novel A Man in Full (17 December 1998) — containing some of his most considered comments on novel-writing, and a salvo in the Mailer–Wolfe quarrel.
“A Man Half Full,” Mailer’s review of Tom Wolfe‘s novel A Man in Full, appeared in the New York Review of Books on 17 December 1998 (18, 20–23). The title’s pun is the point: the review carries some of Mailer’s most considered comments on novel-writing even as it deflates Wolfe — a notable round in the Mailer–Wolfe–Updike quarrel of the period. Reprinted in the softcover edition of The Time of Our Time (98.7).