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Norman Mailer, Part I
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. In this first of a two-part interview, we discuss this unexpected change and his new novel's subject: the childhood of Adolf Hitler.
By Michael Silverblatt • • 30m ListenThe 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. In this first of a two-part interview, we discuss this unexpected change and his new novel's subject: the childhood of Adolf Hitler. (Part II)
Read an excerptfrom The Castle in the Forest.