Let's Do the Twist
Robert J. Begiebing's remembrance in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023) of his 1982 interview with Mailer in Brooklyn, which ended with Chubby Checker's "Let's Do the Twist" on Mailer's jukebox.
Robert J. Begiebing‘s “Let’s Do the Twist” (Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100, p. 10) opens with Mailer’s letter to him of 15 November 1982, after their first meeting that September: a two-hour interview in Mailer’s Brooklyn apartment while he was finishing the proofs of Ancient Evenings. As Begiebing and the photographer Christopher Johnson were leaving, he punched Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Do the Twist” on Mailer’s jukebox.
Full text: Let’s Do the Twist. Other contributions are listed in the book’s contents.