1997

Mailer’s article on the 1996 campaign appears in the January issue of George.

In the spring, begins work on The Time of Our Time (98.7), a massive anthology of excerpts from his work arranged not by date of publication or composition, but according to the dates of events depicted. Preceded by serial publication (19 parts) in the New York Daily News (then edited by his friend Pete Hamill), The Gospel According to the Son (97.13) is published on 18 September. Reviews are mixed.

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  NM in 1997.

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  Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer in 1997.