Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Norman Mailer: Warrior in the Battle of the Sexes

Spencer Vibbert's Boston Sunday Globe report on Mailer's May court appearances in the Bentley divorce, and his 6 May Harvard Advocate benefit, at which he first read from The Executioner's Song.

“Norman Mailer: Warrior in the Battle of the Sexes,” an article-interview by Spencer Vibbert in New England (Boston Sunday Globe, 24 June 1979). A quote-laden report on Mailer’s 2 May court appearance in Barnstable — with Norris Church and his lawyer Monroe Inker — in his divorce from Beverly Bentley; it also describes his 6 May benefit reading for Harvard’s Advocate, at which he first read from The Executioner’s Song** (79.14). Mailer’s objection to Vibbert’s calling Carol Stevens his “mistress” produced his letter 79.5b.

First published: 1979-06-24
Form: article-interview
Lennon & Lennon: 79.5
Cite as: /works/1979-06-24-warrior-battle-of-sexes
Last updated: 2026-06-05