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Mailer remembered


Saturday, November 10, 2007    Send to a friend Send to a friend
Not long after 9/11 I had the pleasure of interviewing Norman Mailer who has just died. He was 78 at the time and when we met he hobbled across his hotel suite at the Savoy in London with two canes, hearing-aids in both ears. Nudging eighty and infirm he may have been, but his cool analysis of 9/11, Bush, boxing, literature and the nature of 'celebrity' revealed a whip-sharp mind. He was a slight man with a huge presence. He lived the fullest of lives and will be missed.


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