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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.
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."
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."