TV Violence? It's a Sedative, Says Norman Mailer
An interview-as-monologue by David Griffiths in the London TV Times — Mailer's answers linked together in short paragraphs, without Griffiths's questions. Mailer assails television for being too 'sober' and 'serious.'
“TV Violence? It’s a Sedative, Says Norman Mailer.” Interview by David Griffiths. TV Times (London), 3 November 1961, 18. Interview.
The piece consists of Mailer’s answers linked together in short paragraphs, without Griffiths’s questions. Mailer assails television for being too “sober” and “serious.”