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“Norman Mailer in Illinois.” Article-interview by Mike Lennon. Sunrise (Macomb, Ill.), no. 4 (November), 24–26. Report on a late October appearance at Western Illinois University where Mailer showed his second film, Beyond the Law, and read from the still-unreleased St. George and the Godfather (72.17). Interview questions center on narrative perspective in Mailer’s nonfiction. Mailer also mentions “a very long novel” he is working on with “60,000 words or six chapters completed.” The novel is Ancient Evenings (83.18). See 72.12.