63.7

63.2—63.13

“The Big Bite.” Monthly column. Esquire (November 1962–December 1963). In February and July, Mailer wrote much longer pieces and dropped the column title. See 62.18, 62.19.

June, 23-24, 28, 32. Important remarks on the decline of the novel, including specific comment on Gore Vidal, Vance Bourjaily, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Rpt: As the first part of “Some Children of the Goddess” (with a few minor changes) in 66.11.