The Realist, no. 40 (December 1962), pp. 1, 13-16, 18-23, 10. Working-draft transcription from screenshots; verification against Best of 'The Realist' (Running Press, 1984), pp. 42-68, queued.
This is aworking-draft transcriptionof Paul Krassner’s eleven-page Q&A with Norman Mailer in The Realist no. 40 (December 1962), the longest single Mailer interview to that date. The interview ran on the cover, then on pages 13–16, 18–23, and back to page 10 — typical of The Realist*‘s continuation pagination. The transcription below was produced from twelve magazine-page screenshots provided by the editor; passages marked with [?] are uncertain readings. The complete authoritative reprint is in* Best of “The Realist,” ed. Paul Krassner (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1984), pp. 42–68. A clean OCR-and-proof pass against the 1984 reprint is queued in the project verification backlog. Rights for this edition are reserved — see the frontmatter rights-note. See the Work page: 62.21.
Work: An Impolite Interview with Norman Mailer
Source: The Realist, no. 40 (December 1962), pp. 1, 13-16, 18-23, 10. Working-draft transcription from screenshots; verification against Best of 'The Realist' (Running Press, 1984), pp. 42-68, queued.
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