Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Norman Mailer (interview in The Film Director as Superstar)

Joseph Gelmis's interview with Mailer on his filmmaking, one of sixteen director interviews collected in The Film Director as Superstar.

“Norman Mailer,” Joseph Gelmis’s interview with Mailer about his work as a filmmaker, is one of sixteen interviews collected in Gelmis’s The Film Director as Superstar (New York: Doubleday, 1970, 42–63). It was reprinted in Cavalier (July 1970); excerpts had appeared earlier in Gelmis’s “Mailer Reviews a Chaotic Year” (Newsday, 10 January 1969). Rpt: 88.6.

First published: 1970
Form: interview
Lennon & Lennon: 70.15
Cite as: /works/1970-film-director-as-superstar
Last updated: 2026-05-31