Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Mailer on Bush, Obama & Writing

Mailer was stimulated to write his Hitler novel by Ron Rosenbaum's Explaining Hitler; finds George W. Bush "not deep enough to be evil," and describes the planned end of the Ancient Evenings trilogy "on a spaceship… looking for a new planet."

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Mailer was stimulated to write his Hitler novel by Ron Rosenbaum’s Explaining Hitler; finds George W. Bush “not deep enough to be evil,” and describes the planned end of the Ancient Evenings trilogy “on a spaceship… looking for a new planet.”

First published: 2007-01-22
Form: article-interview
Lennon & Lennon: 07.9
Cite as: /works/2007-01-22-bush-obama-writing
Last updated: 2026-06-08