A Conversation with Norman Mailer
Marcia Karp's report excerpting the keynote event of the 2005 ALSC conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at which J. Michael Lennon interviewed Mailer; Mailer reflects acidly on the 1950s ('the fifties were awful… One good thing about the fifties was they created the sixties').
Marcia Karp’s report in the ALSC Newsletter excerpting the keynote event of the 2005 Association of Literary Scholars and Critics conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at which J. Michael Lennon interviewed Mailer. Asked about the 1950s, Mailer said: “All decades have some new things, but the fifties were awful. You had to fight for liberty… One good thing about the fifties was they created the sixties.”