Norman Mailer: Works and Days

What's Wrong with America: Five Proposals

Five proposals Mailer wrote for an abandoned 1992 Chrysler advertising-supplement project soliciting 'ideas you don't want to hear' from writers; among them, limiting advertising, eliminating the copper penny, and barring malpractice suits against doctors. Printed in The Mailer Review with a note by J. Michael Lennon.

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Five proposals Mailer wrote for an abandoned 1992 Chrysler Corporation advertising-supplement project that was to pair the company’s cars with “ideas you don’t want to hear” from a variety of writers. Among Mailer’s: limiting advertising, eliminating the copper penny, and a law forbidding malpractice suits against doctors. Printed in The Mailer Review with a note by J. Michael Lennon.

First published: 2008
Form: essay
Lennon & Lennon: 08.7
Cite as: /works/2008-whats-wrong-with-america
Last updated: 2026-06-08