My article on the new box set, Norman Mailer: The Sixties, is at The Millions:

At nearly 1,400 pages packed into two volumes, it’s all too much at once, like a supercut of Mailer’s TV appearances, those bright dark eyes and halo hair, his machine-gun sentences snapped out one after the other until the white flag is waved….

And just for kicks, here’s Mailer and Gore Vidal going at it on the Dick Cavett Show—the last time a talk show guest could talk about The New York Review of Books and not get laughed off the set: