Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Living Like Heroes

Richard Wollheim's philosophic New Statesman interview with Mailer — on the morality of violence, Sartre, socialism, and Hip. Accompanied by the poem 'To the Lower Classes' (61.14). The interview alone was reprinted in Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6).

“Living Like Heroes.” Interview by Richard Wollheim. New Statesman, 29 September 1961, 443–45. Interview.

A philosophic interview on the morality of violence, Sartre, socialism, and Hip. Accompanied in the same issue by “To the Lower Classes” (61.14). The pair was timed to the Deutsch publication of Advertisements for Myself (59.13; see 61.15). Rpt: 88.6 (interview only).

First published: 1961-09-29
Form: interview
Lennon & Lennon: 61.13
Cite as: /works/1961-09-29-living-like-heroes
Last updated: 2026-05-26