Lance Morrow on Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song....

"...an aimlessly meandering American white trash plainstyle..."

Adapted from January 2008 Smithsonian.

Page 95.

"Mailer couched the book in an aimlessly meandering American white trash plainstyle that was a departure from the extravagant metaphors and densely energetic (if sometimes sophomoric) metaphysics of other works.

"The plainstyle was praised as genius, but I suspect Mailer was simply being faithful to the flatness of the Schiller transcripts."

Note: Morrow indicates that Mailer had apparently contracted with an author named Lawrence Schiller to record many hours of interviews with convicted killer Gary Gilmore.