a crossbreeding with fiction. And 1 believed, and had hoped, that the converse would also be true: that a hands-on ... experience with the­ ater would improve my fiction. After the musical's run at the Cleveland ... I'd piled all the scripts in the crate, complete with the lyrics of the songs the composer had ...

worked the frontiers between journalism and fiction, and who continue, as in Mailer's ... Executioner's Song, to walk the line. It is, I suppose, possible that Mailer may someday cross into the realm of ... the higher fiction with his "great American novel." But others have already done it ...