November 13, 2007
As a commemorative tribute to the great American novelist, journalist, playwright, filmmaker, and political activist Norman Mailer, who died this weekend at the age of 84, we will air excerpts from a public conversation that took place at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on March 2, 2006 between Norman Mailer and his son, John Buffalo Mailer, moderated by Dotson Rader. The event followed the publication of the book they authored together entitled The Big Empty: A Dialogue on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America, published by Nation Books and presented as "an intergenerational dialogue between father and son on what it means to live in America today."
1:24:18 min.
Listen (courtesy Sound Posse and New York Society for Ethical Culture).