A conversation with Norman Mailer

with Norman Mailer
in Books
on Monday, February 5, 2007 * * * * *

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A discussion with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Norman Mailer about his new book "Castle in the Forest", the first in ten years. The story offers a fictional account of Adolf Hitler's childhood as told from the perspective of a devil tasked by Satan with cultivating Hitler's evil.

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    1. David Chowes  11/14/2007 03:01 PM Report

      A quite revealing program. After all, it was 'Mailer Distilled.' He was not only was one of the great writers of the 20th Century --what a compelling intelligence he evidenced! And, he is independent in thought and has a global take of humanity and the world. I'm glad that I taped it.

      His comments on Iraq [and Vietnam\ were scaringly precient. He was so on target a years before many of us fully realized the disasterous implications.

      Yes, democracy is fragile -- and is always in danger of evolving into a totalitarian state. But,perhaps this will serve (as Orwell's "1984" did) as a prophylactic to prevent the continuing decline of our country towards facism.

      Mr. Rose, I guess we'll have to put up with your unbridled need to interupt your guests... Your guests are the best! One more comment; I know you come from the South -- but, in New York, 'naked' is not pronounced 'neked.' Thanks for your programs!

    2. Richard Adan  11/13/2007 08:45 PM Report

      He also had some wonderful insight into my Death. Mainly by freeing the man who would stab me repeatdly untill I died on a bathroom floor like a diseased san fransican, but please by all means lets focus on his brilliant analysis of Hitler.

    3. Lorraine  11/10/2007 09:42 PM Report

      In light of his passing today, Mailerâ??s comments are eerily poignant.

    4. JK  05/02/2007 07:38 PM Report

      Mailer on Hitler. Amazing. There's been nobody else who had the moral and manly authority for the task. Brilliant analysis of Hitler.