Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Allen Ginsberg, Norman Mailer, Barney Rosset: Their Struggles Against Censorship Recalled

Edward de Grazia's fall-1998 interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Mailer, and Barney Rosset recalling the Boston obscenity trial of William Burroughs's Naked Lunch.

Read an excerpt (rights pending)

Edward de Grazia’s interviews (Grazian Archive, fall 1998, 11 pp.) with Allen Ginsberg, Mailer, and the publisher Barney Rosset, recalling the Boston obscenity trial of William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch at which Mailer testified.

A full transcription, held in the working archive pending rights clearance, is at full text.

First published: 1998
Form: interview
Lennon & Lennon: 98.14a
Cite as: /works/1998-censorship-recalled-degrazia
Last updated: 2026-06-06