Posted Thursday, November 4, 2010 Listen to Normal Mailer say it: exactly 45 minutes into the interview   source: http://www.radioopensource.org/norman-mailers-long-view/ Norman Mailer's Praise for David Irving's Writing [recorded on Friday, March 9, 2007.] [...][at 45 minutes into the interview recording] CHRISTOPHER LYDON (INTERVIEWER): who else are you reading these days with pleasure - new or old? NORMAN MAILER: Well these days I am reading for pleasure, uh, all sorts of people who write about Hitler, and, uh, too soon to talk about him, but, uh, maybe if I finish the book I'll talk about the reading I've done. CHRISTOPHER LYDON: Hum. NORMAN MAILER: Because it's stimulating as hell. NORMAN MAILER: You know, it's not only Hitler, there are also ... there's a major novel to be written about Goring, about Goebbels, about Himmler -- CHRISTOPHER LYDON: Yes. NORMAN MAILER: -- at least. And somebody'll write them some day. And there have been some very, very good books written about those men. By people like Peter Padfield ... and, uh, dare I say it, David Irving's a very good writer, he's persona non grata in a great many circles, because he's considered to be too sympathetic to, uh, Hitler and the Nazis by many, many people. But he's one hell of an interesting writer. CHRISTOPHER LYDON: We were talking on the radio last night about Hannah Arendt and her book on ... etc  .   Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; The Gospel According to the Son, The Castle and the Forest and On God. Mr. Mailer passed away on Saturday, November 10, 2007. Arrest and Imprisonment of David Irving in Austria 2005-2006 The publication of this article does not imply any endorsement by the Focal Point website of the facts or opinions stated therein

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