Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Mailer Gets Hammered

Gerald Howard's account of Mailer's last public appearance — interviewed by Michael Chaiken, Kent Jones, and J. Michael Lennon at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater before a 22 July screening of Maidstone; the film director is "equivalent to being a general in a war in which no blood was shed."

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Gerald Howard’s account of Mailer’s last public appearance — interviewed by Michael Chaiken, Kent Jones, and J. Michael Lennon at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater before a 22 July screening of Maidstone; the film director is “equivalent to being a general in a war in which no blood was shed.”

First published: 2007-08-26
Form: article
Lennon & Lennon: 07.37
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Last updated: 2026-06-08