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“Up the Family Tree.” Partisan Review 35 (spring), 234–252. Review of Making It, a 1967 memoir by Norman Podhoretz, that foreshadows his use of the third person personal in 68.2 and subsequent nonfiction narratives. Mailer’s most extensive comment on the Partisan Review and “the Family” that wrote for it. The review destroyed his friendship with Podhoretz. Rpt: With the additional title, “One Literary Critique,” in 72.7, 82.19. See 13.2, 394–397, 99.9a.