Volume 32, Number 9 · May 30, 1985
The Teller and the Tape
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Mailer: His Life and Times
by Peter Manso
Simon and Schuster, 718 pp., $19.95
The 'oral tradition,' if that is a suitable slot in which to deposit the large number of books arising from the taped interview, is a labor-saving curiosity in which our country leads the world. The exuberant exploitation of the possibilities of this 'vampire capital' are just beginning and, indeed, the whole enterprise has about it a limitlessness in all its aspects.
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