When Norman Mailer died, some item in the paper said that he was known for taking books apart into pieces that were easier to manage. Whether these were his own

When Norman Mailer died, some item in the paper said that he was known for taking books apart into pieces that were easier to manage. Whether these were his own novels, or those of other writers, I don't remember. But no, I had not heard of incremental reading in this sense. So after reading the section on regular languages in the Cinderella book one would reread it before moving on to context-free languages?