James Campbell, remembrance
James Campbell's remembrance in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023) of interviewing Mailer about James Baldwin at the Algonquin bar on 25 May 1988.
James Campbell’s contribution to Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (p. 14) recalls interviewing Mailer about James Baldwin at the bar of the Algonquin Hotel on 25 May 1988, for the biography published in 1991 as Talking at the Gates. Mailer reordered his gin and bitters and they moved to another table (“This is all wrong”), then spoke about Baldwin “with fondness and good humor.”
Full text: James Campbell, remembrance. Other contributions are listed in the book’s contents.