Norman Mailer's Stabbing of Adele Morales: Difference between revisions

In an interview, Mailer was asked if he drank a lot (he was drunk when he stabbed her). Mailer went on to say the only time he ever drank heavily was when a marriage was breaking up.{{sfn|Legs|2020|p=50}} When asked why Mailer stabbed his second wife, Adele Morales, Mailer opts out of talking about it saying that he'd maybe write about it later. He was then asked if he hated women to which he responds that he doesn't hate them, however, he did get irritated with them differently than he did with men.{{sfn|Lennon|2020|p=52}} Mailer said he considers himself "apart of the generation, who considers fucking up an interesting way to express yourself, a way to do things."{{sfn|Lennon|2020|p=50}} When asked how he considers himself one, he mentions how he'd lost some books that could've been written, but he was too absorbed in himself and his problems. He thinks he's one because he went into debt. Nowhere does he mention his crimes against Adele.