Norman Mailer debates Marshall McLuhan on, among other things, the nature of violence. From the CBC in 1968.
I’ve been reading a lot of Mailer obits and remembrances lately — fascinating fellow, both for his successes and for his failures. While it’s difficult to approve of much of his life, to a writer, his sheer size as an artist — the Himalayan scale of his ambitions — is inspiring. So much about creating art is tied up in hesitations and stepbacks and questioning. This was a man with no fear at all.
(Nice summative piece about Mailer in Saturday’s LAT.)
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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