Nancy Weber
Weber’s interview with Mailer appeared in the March 1965 issue of Books, the literary supplement of the New York Post. It is one of only a few interviews he gave on the novel before it was published. Mailer did not know anything at the…
Weber’s interview with Mailer appeared in the March 1965 issue of Books, the literary supplement of the New York Post. It is one of only a few interviews he gave on the novel before it was published. Mailer did not know anything at the time about how Warner Brothers intended to film the novel and speculated in the interview on whether Frank Sinatra could play Stephen Rojack. He also discussed the possibility of making An American Dream the first volume of a quartet in the manner of The Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell, and commented on how An American Dream had its roots in his November 1960 Esquire essay on J.F.K., “ Superman Comes to the Supermarket.” On the advice of friends, Mailer never saw the film version of the novel. Mailer’s letter(s) to Nancy Weber appear in Norman Mailer’s Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969 (04.7).