Norman Mailer: Works and Days

An Intimate Interview with Norman Mailer

Lyle Stuart's interview in Exposé — Mailer's written answers to sixty-nine submitted questions, ranging across religion, Marilyn Monroe, Freud, Dostoyevsky, Hemingway, and Faulkner.

“An Intimate Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Lyle Stuart. Exposé, no. 49 (December 1955), 1, 4.

Mailer’s written answers to sixty-nine submitted questions. He comments on organized religion, Marilyn Monroe, Sigmund Freud, Feodor Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner, and ends by stating that the role of the artist “is to be as disturbing, as adventurous, as penetrating as his energy and courage make possible”.

Rpt: Advertisements for Myself (59.13); 88.6.

First published: 1955-12
Form: interview
Lennon & Lennon: 55.6
Cite as: /works/1955-12-intimate-interview
Last updated: 2026-05-23