Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Mailer Finds Book Is No Advertisement for Himself

Eric Pace's New York Times report on a meeting between Mailer and Alan Lelchuk, at which Mailer complained about Lelchuk's forthcoming novel American Mischief, in which a Mailer figure is shot dead.

“Mailer Finds Book Is No Advertisement for Himself,” an article by Eric Pace in the New York Times (18 October 1972), reports a meeting between Mailer and the novelist Alan Lelchuk, at which Mailer complained about Lelchuk’s forthcoming American Mischief — a novel in which a Norman Mailer figure is shot dead.

First published: 1972-10-18
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 72.13
Cite as: /works/1972-10-18-no-advertisement-for-himself
Last updated: 2026-06-04