Norman Mailer interviewed by Martin Amis, 1991. (1 of 4)

British TV.

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[jerryhello100]

It comes across very harsh indeed. I'm sorry but every time someone says that there are no great jewish minds, and insult them so ruthlessly, the word nazi jumps to mind.

I don't think that jewishness had anything to do with mistakes on wall street, nor does it have to do with jewish achievement . It doesn't matter what race or religious background someone has, what matters is what they do. The individual should be held responsible not the people. Socrates would be ashamed of you.

[Stephen John Tyler]

Harlot's Ghost -discussed here- is a great novel that, though it finally sinks under its own colossal weight (well, so does Paradise Lost), will probably come to be regarded as Mailer's greatest work. The first hundred pages (i.e. the framing Omega section) are probably the best hundred pages in American literature since the last hundred pages of Moby Dick.

[Paul Garris]

The Sentury of the 20th Century !

[tomsckay7point0]

lol...hemingway, anyone?

[DrOctopusBJJ]

Norman Mailer, a man among men.

[yG65gT6]

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SHUT UP!

[kundalinipsych]

Holy crap... Mailer actually makes sense to me. What's wrong with me today.

[ninjawombatfilmco]

Shit. I got cut off. Dumb phone...forgot character limit. To tired to retype.

[ninjawombatfilmco]

You guys are fucking pricks. Great minds are Jewish great minds aren't. You debate the great psychoanalytical minds of our time...Freud and Jung were on good terms with each other and had extreme influence on each others work. Though their theories diverged, if Jung caught you talking shit on Freud cause he was a crazy Jew he probably would've kicked your ass. As for Amis, he is a prick, but just like his friend Christopher Hitchens (RIP) he is a strong example of how a more liberal-minded (to

[Maggie Aliaga-Kelly]

My Momma Says Obama™

[Zack Romero]

I like many of Mailers stances but what he misses completely is that the infrastructure of the USSR was crumbling because it couldn't keep up with the nuclear arms race.