Throwing Punches: Mailer on Mailer
Jennifer Farbar's wide-ranging Esquire interview (June 1986) — Mailer on machismo, birth control, the sixties, homosexuality, and the sexual revolution, with asides on JFK, 'The White Negro,' and The Executioner's Song. Conducted by the daughter of his friend Buzz Farbar.
“Throwing Punches: Mailer on Mailer,” Jennifer L. Farbar’s interview, ran in Esquire in June 1986 (238–40, 243–44, 247–50). The interviewer was the daughter of Mailer’s close friend Buzz Farbar, and the conversation ranges widely — machismo, birth control, the sixties, homosexuality, and the sexual revolution — with asides on John F. Kennedy, “The White Negro” (57.1), and The Executioner’s Song (79.14). It was reprinted in Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6).
Related pages
- Buzz Farbar | “The White Negro” (57.1)
- 1986
- The Executioner's Song (79.14) | Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6)