Mailer's Real-Life Escapades Outdo Fiction
A Boston Herald-American summary of Mailer's divorce from Beverly Bentley, drawn from trial testimony and an interview; Mailer also discusses the forthcoming Executioner's Song.
“Mailer’s Real-Life Escapades Outdo Fiction,” an article-interview by Tom Sullivan and Harold Banks in the Boston Herald-American (10 December 1978), a summary of Mailer’s divorce from Beverly Bentley drawn from trial testimony and an interview. Mailer also discusses his forthcoming book The Executioner’s Song (79.14): “It’s as long as Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, and about a quarter as good. If it’s a quarter as good, it’s good enough.”
Related pages
- Beverly Bentley | “The Many Marriages of Norman Mailer” (78.5) | 1978
- The Many Marriages of Norman Mailer (78.5) | Mailer: Poor Manager (79.2) | Battling Mailers Agree Norman's a Genius (79.3) | Norman Mailer: Warrior in the Battle of the Sexes (79.5) | Novelist Shelved (79.8) | In a Merry Marriage-Go-Round, Norman Mailer Plans a Double Wedding (80.13)
- The Executioner's Song (79.14)