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{{notice|From {{cite news |last= |first=|date=September 26, 1965 |title=There's Hope in Mailer |url= |work=The Miami Herald |location= |page=3-F |access-date= |ref=harv}} Though they are in-process, copyright permissions have not yet been secured for this review. If you are the copyright holder, please contact the [[Gerald R. Lucas|editor]].}}

The life and art of [[Norman Mailer]] are discussed all over the pages of ''Life Magazine'' this week by an intelligent and gifted writer. Brock Brewer. who had the sense to acknowledge even before setting out on his 12-page journey that he doesn't know (and neither does [[Norman Mailer|Mailer]] what in fact is the goal of Mailer's "reckless quest." The heavy recognition of Mailer by the editors of ''Life'' is final confirmation that he is big on the literary scene--and more: that he is big on the American scene, for two reasons that most critics do not know how to explain but, by their friendly activity in trying, go so far as to acknowledge that the Quest to Explain [[Norman Mailer]] is itself worthwhile.