Found book at library "Mind of an outlaw" selected essays Norman Mailer. Wow, what a writer he was from the old school telling as it is... Not like today... I plan on reading all his books since his first one.. Great writer...
@sheiladineen9483 Жыл бұрын
Thank you. I will request it...I've read almost everything Norman Mailer has written.
@SamuelDaram15 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this gem of 2 of the greatest writers of all time!
@arlieferguson3990 Жыл бұрын
Martin Amis is wonderful either as an interviewer or an interviewee. It’s a shame we didn’t get to see more of him. I enjoyed hearing him speak more than reading his novels.
@spartyman48 жыл бұрын
What a pleasure! Two giants of contemporary literature; they both have that key ingredient of great novelists: learnedness. They are well-read, and they are both curious about the goings-on of the world that extend beyond sex and marriage (although they are both obsessed with these as well). With Mailer, the changes he witnessed in his country were key to his writings, but he was not afraid to venture beyond contemporary America ("Ancient Evenings" for example). Amis began in his father's tradition, the delightful and very English pastime known as the comic novel. Although dark comedy is present throughout his career, his subjects range from the holocaust to the gulags to the psyche of the modern man infatuated by greed and gluttony. We need more people like this in our time to be the center of intellectual culture; instead of our rotten, social-media fed cesspool.
@sheiladineen9483 Жыл бұрын
Thank you
@soylentramen77953 жыл бұрын
Mailer was a bona fide titan already, but this book is a fuckin' beast.
@patrickjamesmurphy11 жыл бұрын
i've not read Harlot's Ghost yet but this comment makes me want to read it. heretofore i've regarded Executioner's Song as Mailers most breathtaking. but now I'm going to read Harlot's Ghost. thanks much Stephen (5 years later)
@stephentyler116 жыл бұрын
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.
@zachgates74912 жыл бұрын
Executioner’s Song will probably be seen as his best work. Harlot’s Ghost was never finished and contained some bizarre sexual stuff.
@bellinivernon15 жыл бұрын
.Exelente ; gracias ,desde argentina.
@chickencharlie1992 Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see what Norman Miller thinks the politics today
@danielmcdermott1388 ай бұрын
Interestingly enough, Amis's best friend, Christopher Hitchens, loved this book.
@Johnnyloo648 жыл бұрын
Supermailer comes to the Supermartin.
@mlawren78 жыл бұрын
+John Breidenthal Superman comes to the supermarket/supermart is a difficult text to get hold of.
@CraftsmanBJJ11 жыл бұрын
Norman Mailer, a man among men.
@kundalinipsych12 жыл бұрын
Holy crap... Mailer actually makes sense to me. What's wrong with me today.
@cahillgreg8 жыл бұрын
A pint and a packet of cheese and onion please
@williamroccajr.92082 жыл бұрын
I'll meet ya at McSorley's.
@PninianPnin11 жыл бұрын
0:53 , Is that Truman Capote?
@danielwardin4146 жыл бұрын
pninianpnin Yes, it is Capote.
@ninjawombatfilmco12 жыл бұрын
Shit. I got cut off. Dumb phone...forgot character limit. To tired to retype.
@greatsea14 жыл бұрын
well from an objective standpoint the # of great minds that are jewish is improportionately high. when you have the stubborn facts of jewish history staring at you it is hard to proceed without being seduced into one disposition towards them or another. disdain or infatuation.
@Tlk2435asdko4315 жыл бұрын
he's right about the cold war exaggeration.
@zachromero13 жыл бұрын
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.
@reinarforeman65184 жыл бұрын
And "The Great Space Waste".
@UUGambler14 жыл бұрын
I'm fascinated by the negative comments posted to this interview. Both Mailer and Amis write remarkable prose and are, whether you agree with them or not, unfailingly smart, entertaining public intellectuals. Are those commentors who posted ad hominum attacks here able to approximate these acheivements? Or are they intimidated and, therefore, boorish and antiintellectual?
@fasteddief14 жыл бұрын
@Avicenna9 what an affected, clumsy insult. Talk about exposing your hand.
@russwelday5 жыл бұрын
7 years to come out with a plotless 1300 page mouse. Read Ancient Evenings instead.
@russwelday Жыл бұрын
@Brendy Mest Pointless, then.
@russwelday Жыл бұрын
Actually, 'The Tears of Autumn' is better.
@Jim54_4 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget, this is the same Norman Mailer that tried to kill his wife with a pen knife, punched out Gore Vidal at a party and had a violent on camera fight with RIP Torn. The man was prone to violent outbursts, and at best could be described as dangerous. That hardly qualifies him to lecture people about much, seeing as he was so mentally unstable
@MrUndersolo3 жыл бұрын
'Pampered Super Brat' - Martin Amis quote!
@soylentramen77953 жыл бұрын
That was the punch Gore Vidal should have gotten for referring to Timothy McVeigh as "a hero" imho
@silversnail14132 жыл бұрын
Rip Torn attacked Mailer with a hammer and Vidal brought it on himself by writing a check with his mouth that his fists couldn't cash. Can't really defend the wife stabbing, but I don't know the full story behind that. If we automatically discredited every single writer or artist who engaged in criminal, violent or anti-social behavior then we would be drawing from a rather narrow and limited pool. William S. Burroughs was a raging junkie who shot his own wife to death and turned a blind eye while his son was abused by friends of his and everyone kisses his ass. Anne Perry participated in the murder of her best friend's mother when she was sixteen years old and later went on to have a bright and flourishing career as a writer, with the whole incident even being dramatized in the Peter Jackson film "Heavenly Creatures."
@thunderbirdscarlett12 жыл бұрын
My Momma Says Obama™
@StaubachComebach11 жыл бұрын
The Sentury of the 20th Century !
@thunderbirdscarlett14 жыл бұрын
MY MOMMA SAYS OBAMA!
@tomsckay7point011 жыл бұрын
lol...hemingway, anyone?
@nathanpickering92536 жыл бұрын
2:19
@KellyGreen555514 жыл бұрын
Martin Amis is such a prat.
@crazyhead7411 жыл бұрын
Fuck me, Amis' vocal style is intolerable to listen to