The Mailer Review/Volume 8, 2014/An Excerpt from Mailer’s Last Interview: The Village Voice: Difference between revisions

{{byline|last=Lennon|first=J. Michael|note=J. Michael Lennon, author of the recently published biography, ''Norman Mailer: A Double Life'' (Simon & Schuster), interviewed {{NM}} in his home in Provincetown on September 18, 2007, less than two months before Mailer’s death in a New York hospital. The focus of the interview was Mailer’s close friend Robert Lindner, a psychoanalyst who had published several popular books on psychology, including ''Rebel without a Cause'' (1944), and ''The Fifty-Minute Hour'' (1955). Lindner died on February 27, 1956, and a week later Mailer eulogized him in the ''Village Voice'', launched four months earlier. Mailer invested in, named, and wrote for the ''Voice'' many times over his long career. In the course of the interview, he digresses and speaks with some passion about his vision for the ''Voice'', and how it conflicted with the ideas of its editor, Daniel Wolf and its publisher Edwin Fancher, two of the other co-founders.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr14lenn}}