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- Chelsea Merz
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- "Norman Mailer Interview"
- Summary: Novelist Norman Mailer talks politics on the eve of the Republican Convention
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Review of Norman Mailer Interview
Chelsea Merz
Posted on August 27, 2004 at 10:03 AM
"My Dinner with Andre" meets "The McNeil-Lehrer Hour." You could listen to these two talk all day, all night. From hegemony to hipdom to homogenization --Mailer and Lydon explore it all. Lydon has Mailer compare the cultural climate in which Kenedy was nominated to today's presedential election--and the conclusions that Mailer draws are fascinating and horrifying. Mailer 's prophecy: Bush will win this election, is unfortunate and what's worse is that Mailer is so convincing. But you almost have to forgive a country that reelects Bush if it is the same country that allows these two to be heard on the radio. Play this leading up to the election--play it after the election--or both.