At 77, Mailer gives up on the Sexual Revolution
Fiachra Gibbons's Guardian report (15 August 2000) on Mailer's Edinburgh Literary Festival appearance, where he declared the sexual revolution lost — 'Women have won everything' — and defended Clinton over the Lewinsky affair while attacking his corporate politics.
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“At 77, Mailer gives up on the Sexual Revolution,” Fiachra Gibbons’s report in The Guardian (15 August 2000), covers Mailer’s appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where he pronounced the sexual revolution lost — “Women have won everything. Men have sunk into their dugouts” — and, on Clinton and Lewinsky, confided “Mon frère … I’d have done it myself,” while faulting Clinton’s “dreadful” deference to the corporations. It is one of a cluster of Edinburgh-festival pieces (with 00.9, 00.12).