Mailer on Mailer (Beyette)
Beverly Beyette's syndicated interview from the Of Women and Their Elegance book tour; the hackneyed questions provoke Mailer's irritation.
“Mailer on Mailer,” an article-interview by Beverly Beyette (a Los Angeles Times writer) in the Sunday Pantagraph (Bloomington, Ill., 14 December 1980), from the Of Women and Their Elegance (80.15) book tour. The hackneyed questions — “Is Marilyn Monroe some sort of obsession?” — draw replies that reveal Mailer’s irritation; he mentions the interview in 81.8.