A Certain Grim Pleasure: Norman Mailer Speaks with James Toback about Film
A wide-ranging conversation with the filmmaker James Toback on film and the horrors of modern life, in which Mailer explains how his writing process has changed: 'I used to pride myself on the white heat of my first drafts… now it's not like that.'
A wide-ranging conversation with the filmmaker James Toback, Mailer’s longtime friend, on film and the horrors of modern life. Mailer also explains how his writing process has changed with age: “I used to pride myself on the white heat of my first drafts… now it’s not like that. My first drafts are much below the final product.”