Norman Mailer Audio & Video

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.

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.

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

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.

Following The New Testament closely, Norman Mailer recreates the life of Jesus and the Holy Land...

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

Mailers major works have engaged such themes as war, politics, culture, and sex. Now he gives us fresh ways to think about the largest subject of them all.

Questions are posed, writes Norman Mailer, "in the hope they will open into richer insights, which in turn will bring forth sharper questions.

Amid the cactus wilds some two hundred miles from Hollywood lies a privileged oasis called Desert D'Or.

Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews.