Observer, 1st October 1961, p. 30

Alan Pryce-Jones, ‘An American Writer’s Cri du Coeur’,

JB mentioned several times in review of Norman Mailer’s Advertisements for Myself:

Pryce-Jones on Mailer: “He excites himself over precise definitions of the hip — there is an entrancing lexicon of contrasts between the hip and the square: he flexes his muscles in order to show that he is what a fellow writer, James Baldwin, has called him: “The toughest kid on the block”’.