Norman Mailer - live from America
Live from America, the inimitable man of letters Norman Mailer chats via video link-up to Scottish writer Andrew O'Hagan in Edinburgh. Topics discussed in this extraordinary 2007 event include Mailer's career, his ambitions and his latest novel The Castle in the Forest. He even signs books in Edinburgh from his living room in New York using Margaret Atwood's remarkable invention, the LongPen.
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