Breakfast with Norman
Sasha Lazard's "Breakfast with Norman" in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023): Mailer's verdict, over breakfast, on her singing of "You'll Come Back (You Always Do)," the song from Tough Guys Don't Dance with his lyrics.
Sasha Lazard’s “Breakfast with Norman” (Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100, pp. 33–34) opens with Mailer’s lyrics for “You’ll Come Back (You Always Do),” Angelo Badalamenti’s song from the film Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Lazard first met Mailer in 2002 and later sang the song. Over breakfast he told her she had “not yet suffered enough to sing that song properly.”
Full text: Breakfast with Norman. Other contributions are listed in the book’s contents.