Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer
Laura Adams's omnibus Partisan Review interview, notable for Mailer's comments on karma and the role of James Jones in convincing him of its justice.
“Existential Aesthetics: An Interview with Norman Mailer,” by Laura Adams in Partisan Review 42 (summer 1975), an omnibus interview notable for Mailer’s comments on karma — and the role of James Jones in convincing him of its justice — and for one of his fullest statements on the war between God and the Devil. Reprinted partially in Pieces and Pontifications (82.16) and The Time of Our Time (98.7), and complete in Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6). See 59.2, 75.2, 82.15, 83.45, 89.11. A full transcription (rights cleared) is held at full text.
Related pages
- God and the Devil | Laura Adams | James Jones | 1975
- Pieces and Pontifications (82.16) | The Time of Our Time (98.7) | Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6) | Hip, Hell, and the Navigator (59.2) | God and Man and Norman Mailer (83.45)