Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Norman Mailer (in Mike Wallace Asks)

The book version of Mailer's Mike Wallace interview — excerpts from Wallace's 5 March 1957 Night Beat television program — collected in Mike Wallace Asks (Simon and Schuster, 1958).

“Norman Mailer.” Interview by Mike Wallace. In Mike Wallace Asks, edited by Charles Preston and Edward A. Hamilton, 26–27. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Excerpts from Wallace’s 5 March 1957 Night Beat television program, mainly concerned with Mailer’s views on sex and censorship. Two brief excerpts had appeared in the New York Post on 24 and 25 July 1958 — see “Mike Wallace Asks: Norman Mailer” (58.2) — presumably around the book’s appearance.

First published: 1958
Form: interview
Lennon & Lennon: 58.7
Cite as: /works/1958-mike-wallace-asks-book
Last updated: 2026-05-23