Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Letter to the Editor, Contact

A letter to the San Francisco magazine Contact declining a request to review the film of The Naked and the Dead — Mailer offers instead his New York Post letter (58.3) on his disagreements with the film's director.

Letter to the editor, Contact (San Francisco) 1, 97–98.

Responding to a request for a review of the film version of The Naked and the Dead (48.2), Mailer says he doesn’t have time and offers instead his New York Post letter (58.3) about his disagreements with the film’s director. Contact publishes both Mailer’s note and the Post letter.

Lennon & Lennon: 58.5
Cite as: /letters/1958-letter-to-contact
Last updated: 2026-06-07