Comments on: Norman Mailer's 'Long View'

By: Dan McGuire

Dan McGuire — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:36:49 +0000

I recall in the summer of 1988, I was working in Boston. I spent a weekend on Cape Cod, in Provincetown. I drove all over the Cape on the Sunday of that weekend, looking for a place to buy liquor. Blue laws were still in effect then so I was coming up empty. Then I see a man walking his dog and slow to ask for help with my search. It’s Norman Mailer. Of course, he knew the one place where I could buy liquor and saved the day. I think he was flattered that I recognized him immediately and told him I’d read and very much enjoyed “The Executioner’s Song.” A true gentleman, although I think “Armies of the Night” is trash. He’s a better novelist than journalist.

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By: bft

bft — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:58:02 +0000

Egad—”Sympathy for the Devil” on a podcast—how’d that license work?

By: Masculist

Masculist — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:12:56 +0000

Mailer is such an arrogant and impotent wind bag. This interview of him started out with how he challenged the women’s movement but never a word was said about it, which Lydon, an obviously biased feminist himself, should have raised and didn’t. In all his political comments no mention was made of feminism, the ruling ideology of both the Left and Right. What a sad old man and what a deluded feminized man he has become.

Tom Smith

By: davidc

davidc — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:18:47 +0000

While I enjoyed Chris’s interview with Norman Mailer, I have to respond to what I find a misunderstanding of the conception of G-d in Judaism. Obviously Norman Mailer has not been in a synagogue in many years, that notwithstanding he should understand that “Fear of G-d” does not actually mean being afraid of an all omnipotent power. Rather it means that we should respect the force that is controlling nature, etc. It has nothing to do with being afraid, etc.

As I commented to my wife, Mailer must be “fixin to die” as he progresses in years, hence he concern with G-d and the devil. And I can appreciate this.

By: mansico

mansico — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:32:43 +0000

re: Bush’s hyphenated speaking style.

Mr. Mailer missed the best of them all, ie; “Saddam-Hussein-and-his-weapons-of mass-destruction”, repeated ad nauseum by Bush and every member of his administration for months prior to the invasion of Iraq

By: misfit

misfit — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:55:01 +0000

Mailer says that the reason he is not optimistic about our country is the power of corporations. He references the methods of corporations via commercials and the negative effects, for example, on reading. I want to also remind us of the negative substance of corporations. I think of three corporate structures in particular that in my mind have more or less ruined life today: the pharmaceutical companies that have corrupted health care; agribusiness that has ruined our food supply and made us sick to begin with; and of course the industrial-military complex that requires continuous war.

By: patsyb

patsyb — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:27:42 +0000

Camus and Mailer back-to-back — what bookends! Sisyphean both and yet so unlike each other.

By: mjohnburns

mjohnburns — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:45:14 +0000

My favorite Norman Mailer passage:

The immense ego of city people.

How do you conceive your own death, your own unimportance in all that man-created immensity, through all the marble vaults and brick ridges and the furnaces that lead to the market place? You always believe somehow that the world will end with your death. It is all more intense, more violent, more rutted than life anywhere else.

The Naked and the Dead, p. 328.