68.1

“Playboy Interview: Norman Mailer.” By Paul Carroll. Playboy, January, 69–72, 74, 76, 78, 80, 82–84. One of Mailer’s most important interviews, with extended discussion of drugs, sex, fame, politics and Vietnam; less on purely literary matters. Rpt: Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work, edited by Robert F. Lucid. Boston: Little, Brown, 1971; as “Excerpts from Playboy” (partial) in 72.7 and 82.19; as “Vices” in 82.16 (partial).