wallace-l: Mailer's "Harlot" sequel

[Paul Mackin]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Bob Wake wrote:

> Surprisingly, I found my copy of the USA Today interview with Mailer
> from May, 1998, where he talks about the sequel to "Harlot's Ghost." I
> misspoke earlier -- apparently he hasn't been writing it, only "haunted"
> by it:
> 
> <<For seven years he has been haunted by the promised sequel to
> "Harlot's Ghost," his 1991 novel about the CIA. He's been waiting, he
> says, "for a large idea to come along. When I finished the first volume,
> and the Cold War ended, it was as if the literary air went right out of
> the CIA.">>

Thanks for the information, Bob.  Shouldn't be too much of a surpise I
guess. 

			P.