Not mailing it in
Entertainment Weekly interviewed 83 year-old Norman Mailer, covering booze, his place in history, Philip Roth fans and his new book, The Castle in the Forest (out Jan. 23).
- “Do you really believe the devil was present at the conception of Adolf Hitler, as he is in the book?
Uh, yeah. I mean, if I say that, and you see it in print, it sounds bizarre, lunatic, unsettling. But if we can believe that God or Gabriel was present at the conception of Jesus, then it seems to me we can believe that the devil was present at the conception of Adolf Hitler.”