Mailer on Gilmore
Kevin Bezner's Washington Book Review interview on The Executioner's Song - narrative stance, Gilmore's appeal, the title and prison rhyme, and a comparison with Capote's In Cold Blood.
“Mailer on Gilmore,” an interview by Kevin Bezner in the Washington Book Review (January–February 1980), an excellent discussion of The Executioner’s Song (79.14): Mailer’s narrative stance, Gary Gilmore‘s character and appeal, the source of his title and the “old prison rhyme” prefacing the book, Joan Didion‘s review, and Capote’s In Cold Blood — “beautifully written. It had to be.”
Related pages
- The Executioner’s Song (79.14) | Gary Gilmore | 1980
- Norman Mailer: Gary Gilmore and Cornish Game Hens Are on His Mind These Days (79.1) | An Interview with Norman Mailer (Aldridge) (80.10)