Norman Mailer, Part I

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The Castle in the Forest (Random House)

Now in his eighties, Norman Mailer has forsaken the violence and declarative sentences of his signature style for the gradual somber analytics of a style like that of Thomas Mann. Here, we discuss this unexpected change and his new novel's subject: the childhood of Adolf Hitler. 

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• Norman Mailer: American novelist, journalist and playwright

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Michael Silverblatt

Bookworm Michael Silverblatt is the guy authors go to when they want a serious literary conversation about their writing, because Michael reads everything they’ve ever written, often surprising the authors with insights about their work that they themselves hadn’t realized.

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