On James Baldwin on Advertisements for Myself: “Mailer's Advertisements for Myself and Marilyn: A Biography are not quite readable now, their egotism bloated and out of control”
On James Baldwin on Miami and the Siege of Chicago: “Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night and his Miami and the Siege of Chicago, both works of imaginative and original political reporting”
Hitch-22 on The Armies of the Night: “you are liable to undergo an abrupt shift of perspective that qualifies any nostalgia for Norman Mailer's "Armies of the Night" or Allen Ginsberg's quixotic attempt to levitate the building.”
On James Baldwin on The Armies of the Night: “Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night and his Miami and the Siege of Chicago, both works of imaginative and original political reporting, may equal his best novel, The Executioner's Song”
The Bone Clocks on The Naked and the Dead: “But if I were forced at gunpoint to pick the twentieth-century war novel, I'd opt for Mailer's The Naked and the Dead.”