Postscript

Punk Rock Meets the Godfather of Letters

Authors

  • Michael L. Shuman University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

Legs McNeil, High Times, punk rock, Ramones, CBGB, The Executioner’s Song

Abstract

A postscript to Legs McNeil’s 1979 High Times interview with Norman Mailer: how the proto-punk McNeil came to meet Mailer, took him to see the Ramones and Shrapnel at CBGB, and conducted the interview the next day, and what the encounter suggests about Mailer’s reach into the punk and counterculture audience after The Executioner’s Song.

Author Biography

  • Michael L. Shuman, University of South Florida

    Michael L. Shuman had long careers in both newspaper management and software development before earning his PhD and joining the Department of English at University of South Florida, where he teaches writing for the technical professions and coordinates the department’s internship program. Dr. Shuman is Deputy Editor of The Mailer Review.

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Published

2020-10-15

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 1 (2020)

Section

Notes

How to Cite

Shuman, Michael L. “Postscript: Punk Rock Meets the Godfather of Letters”. The Mailer Review, vol. 14, no. 1, Oct. 2020, pp. 61–62, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/788.