A Murderer's Tale: Norman Mailer Talking to Melvyn Bragg
An important interview with Melvyn Bragg, conducted at Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment and broadcast in truncated form on the BBC's South Bank Show, with extended discussion of The Executioner's Song.
“A Murderer’s Tale: Norman Mailer Talking to Melvyn Bragg,” an interview in the Listener (15 November 1979), with a cover photograph of Mailer. Conducted in early 1979 at Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment and broadcast, greatly truncated, on the BBC’s South Bank Show, it contains extended discussion of The Executioner’s Song (79.14) — Gilmore’s suicide attempt, his relations with the media, fan mail, and Mailer’s views on the documentary novel. Reprinted in Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6).