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“Stormin’ Norman.” Article-interview by Christopher Hitchens. Vogue, October, 311–312, 366–367. Contains a thoughtful dialogue on 91.26 and the nature of the CIA. Mailer calls the novel a “comedy of manners,” and explains the contradiction he sees at the heart of the CIA: “the interface between bureaucracy and unprecedented action.”