Talking with Mailer
Paul Attanasio's Harvard Crimson interview on The Executioner's Song, with Mailer on 'getting myself out of the book' and the two halves of the narrative.
“Talking with Mailer,” an interview by Paul A. Attanasio in the Harvard Crimson Fall Book Supplement (October 1979) — an excellent interview on The Executioner’s Song (79.14). Mailer addresses the problem “of getting myself out of the book” and the two halves of the narrative: “the real meaning is in the second half, which is not as well-ordered and not as amenable to a simple narrative line.”