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After a long career of writing books and courting controversy, Norman Mailer leans into the lens of a video camera and briefly explains how he doesn’t like appearing on TV. But he’s got ideas to express, and so here he is, giving us Mailer on Mailer, an installment of the PBS series American Masters. Seated at a table at his seaside retreat, with the Atlantic visible in the background, Mailer speaks directly to the camera and recounts major events of his life. This oral autobiography is punctuated with trenchant comments on what it has meant to be a writer in modern America. His reminiscences of serving in the South Pacific are presented, along with excerpts from letters he wrote home and passages from The Naked and the Dead, the novel that catapulted him to national prominence in 1948. Moving forward through the decades, vintage news clips, including some of the noted author himself in one fracas or another, are shown as Mailer talks about how profound chang (more…)
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