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Norman Mailer

Reading at the Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania

  1. Introduction by Al Filreis (3:05)
  2. Introduction by Bob Lucid (5:02)
  3. Introduction by Mailer (2:15)
  4. On An American Dream and the nature of reality (5:05)
  5. On black sexuality (3:40)
  6. On boxing metaphor (2:01)
  7. On character writing (3:19)
  8. On choosing subject matter (3:53)
  9. On fact versus fiction (6:10)
  10. On inescapable experience and writing (2:34)
  11. On novel writing (4:26)
  12. On Philip Roth (2:50)
  13. On reading (3:51)
  14. On role models (5:20)
  15. On running for Mayor (1:17)
  16. On swagger (4:45)
  17. On the draw of the writer today (1:47)
  18. On The Naked and The Dead in Russia (3:26)
  19. On violence (4:05)
  20. On young writers (2:33)

Complete reading (1:13:37)