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It is the purity of Stevens' language that makes the Library of America edition--edited by Frank Kermode and Joan Richardson--seem a bit "off."
According to Kermode, Smith employs a "laborious accumulation of detail" to back up her diagnosis that the late princess "was unpredictable, egocentric, aggressive, insecure, manipulative, paranoid, possessive, easily bored, uneducated and a habitual liar."
In the New York Times Book Review , Frank Kermode is disdainful of a new biography of Princess Diana by Sally Bedell Smith that claims Lady Di suffered from "a borderline personality disorder."
Only Frank Kermode defends Mailer; in an erudite reading of the book in the New York Review of Books, he attributes to Mailer the subtlety of a theologian--whose "powerful mind," however, "works in a specialized way, not by theological argument but by telling or retelling a story."
To be sure, four names—Heather Gay, Brian O'Kill, Katherine Seed, and Janet Whitcut—appear on the Acknowledgements page, but so do names of a lot of other people (like Frank Kermode, Melvin Bragg, Clement Freud, Germaine Greer, Clive Jenkins, and Janet Street-Porter) whose direct connection with the book at hand would seem to be much more remote.