Via Variety, Toronto Film Review: “The Capote Tapes”: The people on the tapes include Mailer, who tells a terrific story about drinking with Truman in an old Irish bar and realizing what adrenaline (and courage) Capote must have lived with at every moment, and a friend who says that Capote swore by the motto, “Don’t ever let the truth get in the way of a good story.”
Loving] has written a eulogy for Rip Torn for the Walt Whitman Quarterly in which Mailer is mentioned.
Francis Wade, in the LA Review of Books reads “‘The Armies of the Night’ in an Age of Youth Protest.”
For The Hedgehog Review, Greg Jackson writes “Hipster Elegies”: The death and life of the great American hipster offers an alternative history of culture over the last quarter century.
More on Rip Torn from Wicked Local: Provincetown: “Rip Torn, wild man and actor, dies at 88.”
No one captured the Apollo era quite like Mailer did.
J. Michael Lennon reviews Douglas Brinkley’s account of JFK’s space legacy with an eye toward its Mailer connections.