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Criticism

Boyer, Allen D. "The Trials of Dr. Sheppard." New York Times Book Review (8 October 1995): 26.

Reviews Mockery of Justice.

Huddleston, Eugene L. "Literary Nonfiction: Extending Its Definition." Midwest Quarterly 33 (Spring 1992): 340-56.

Discusses the nonfiction novel as a genre and comments on the legal problems faced by nonfiction writers.

Mortimer, Penelope. "Lusting after Ghosts." New Statesman (23 November 1979): 812.

Offers an unfavorable review of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song.

Stern, Richard. "Missingeria and Literary Health." The Georgia Review 34 (Summer 1980): 422-27.

Reviews Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song along with several other books. Sterns argues that Mailer was concerned in the book with "the power of narrative" with creating a "grand, even a tragic pattern."

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