Volume 15, Number 5 · September 24, 1970
The Boys
By Margot Hentoff
Managing Mailer
by Joe Flaherty
Coward-McCann, 222 pp., $5.95
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
by Jimmy Breslin
Viking, 249 pp., $5.95
It is not always easy for us, living among them, to imagine that we walk with legendary men. Still, the legends grow; tales of the new New York wits, the 'new journalists' who, following the axiom that it is best to write about what interests you most, write often about themselves and each other. In this tradition, Joe Flaherty, a writer for the Village Voice, has put together a tidy book about the slobbish Mailer-Breslin run for municipal leadership of New York City—a campaign for which he was manager and which was begun in order to become legendary. Since one of the popular entertainments of New York night life has long been watching Mailer make an ass of himself, Managing Mailer is a kind of bonus; a compendium of embarrassments concerning Mailer and his gang. We can now know what happened without the pain of attendance.
Review, 1697 words
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