Norman Mailer Audio & Video

Norman Mailer discusses his writing, literary criticism, and American life. Other topics of conversation include Mailer's thoughts on "affirmative" literary works, apathy and a lack of passion in modern life, beat writers and their reception in the United States, and many of his contemporary writers.

Mailer's first novel in a decade is a big, bold, wildly entertaining saga about a profoundly dysfunctional Austrian family, the nature of the evil that runs in its veins, and a little boy named Adolf Hitler who inherits its twisted legacy.

In The Gospel According to the Son, Mailer reimagines, as no other modern author has, the key character of Western history.

This surprisingly genial conversation starts with the subject of Norman Mailer-as most conversations with Norman Mailer do-and goes on from there.

In 1974 in Kinshasa, Za‚àö?òre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other.

An appreciation of Norman Mailer. Mailer died of acute renal failure on the morning of November 10, 2007, a month after undergoing lung surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York. He was 84 years old.

Norman Mailer is a journalist, novelist, and essayist whose latest novel is "Ancient Evenings." Mailer delivers a talk on "The Problem of Writing" at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mailer's first novel in a decade is a big, bold, wildly entertaining saga about a profoundly dysfunctional Austrian family, the nature of the evil that runs in its veins, and a little boy named Adolf Hitler who inherits its twisted legacy.

In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villains - and enigmas - in United States history.

Mr. Mailer talked about his book The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing, published by Random House.