From the April, 2008 issue of High Times comes a quirky salute from Paul Krassner (1932—2019) to Norman Mailer (1923—2007), republished below on the occasion of Mailer’s birthday January 31. When I originally launched my countercultural magazine The Realist in 1958, I requested an interview with Norman Mailer. He declined, but in 1962, after I published an interview with Joseph Heller when Catch-22 was published, Mailer called me. In 1963, when I performed stand-up at Town Hall and introduced Heller in the audience, somebody else—a friend of his—stood up. He eased himself onto a high chair behind the podium. “Gee, Paul, I didn’t know how to start tonight,” he said, “but maybe you got me going.
From the April, 2008 issue of High Times comes a quirky salute from Paul Krassner (1932—2019) to Norman Mailer (1923—2007), republished below on the occasion of Mailer’s birthday January 31.
When I originally launched my countercultural magazine The Realist in 1958, I requested an interview with Norman Mailer. He declined, but in 1962, after I published an interview with Joseph Heller when...
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