Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Norman Mailer: The Interview

Mailer's most extensive interview on sex and pornography, conducted by Jeffrey Michelson and Sarah Stone at his Brooklyn Heights apartment in December 1980; reprinted in abridged form as 'Ethics and Pornography' in Pieces and Pontifications.

“Norman Mailer: The Interview,” by Jeffrey Michelson and Sarah Stone in the Puritan Quarterly Journal (no. 7, 1981) — Mailer’s most extensive interview on sex and pornography. It was conducted at his Brooklyn Heights apartment on 28 December 1980 and reprinted, in abridged form, as “Ethics and Pornography” in Pieces and Pontifications (82.16).

First published: 1981
Form: interview
Lennon & Lennon: 81.23
Cite as: /works/1981-the-interview-puritan
Last updated: 2026-06-05