Norman Mailer: Works and Days

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.”

First published: 1978-12-10
Form: article-interview
Lennon & Lennon: 78.4
Cite as: /works/1978-12-10-real-life-escapades
Last updated: 2026-06-05