Mailer at Ease
Dick Schaap's interview at the Harper's publication party for The Armies of the Night; Mailer on stumbling into the March and using the real Coffin speech.
An article-interview by Dick Schaap on the occasion of the Harper’s party celebrating the publication of The Armies of the Night. Mailer says he had no intention of writing about the March on the Pentagon and “just stumbled into the event,” and explains how he reconstructed the speeches (including substituting the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr.’s actual speech for his own near-version).