Christopher Busa
Founding editor of Provincetown Arts and a Mailer friend and neighbor; his 1999 interview is Mailer's fullest statement on what Provincetown meant to him as an artist.
Christopher Busa, founding editor of Provincetown Arts and a friend and neighbor of Mailer’s, conducted the 1999 “Interview with Norman Mailer” (99.5) — Mailer’s fullest account of what Provincetown meant to him as an artist, with extended discussion of The Gospel According to the Son and Ancient Evenings. Busa also wrote on Tough Guys Don’t Dance for The Mailer Review.
Born in New York City on 20 December 1946, the son of the painter Peter Busa, he co-founded Provincetown Arts with Raymond Elman in 1985 and served on the Norman Mailer Society‘s Board from its founding in 2003. He died in Boston on 20 June 2020, at 73 (Karren, “Chris Busa of Provincetown Arts Dies at 73,” Provincetown Independent, 25 June 2020); The Mailer Review 14 (2020) carries a memorial, “In Memory of Chris Busa.” See also the Society’s remembrance.
Related pages
- “Interview with Norman Mailer” (99.5) | Provincetown, Massachusetts | 1999 | 2020 | Norman Mailer Society