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.

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.

For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century.

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

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.

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

A genuine literary event - an illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote more than 30 novels, essay collections, and nonfiction books.

He prepared therefore for the meditative journey that proves most excruciating in Limbo, a rounding through the past, a trip back! It is a venture full of perils.

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.