Ancient Evening
Account of Mailer receiving the Paris Review Hadada Award, presented by E. L. Doctorow; asked to define a novel, Mailer said: "A novel is history… Histories are made of rotten bricks. Novels lay straw in the mortar."
Account of Mailer receiving the Paris Review Hadada Award, presented by E. L. Doctorow; asked to define a novel, Mailer said: “A novel is history… Histories are made of rotten bricks. Novels lay straw in the mortar.”