5:00 a.m.

Paula, posting in Fr. Kendall Harmon’s blog, titusonenine: http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/7513/#comments

“Here are comments by interviewer Christopher Lydon about Mailer: ‘ . . . fundamentally The Castle in the Forest seems to me an exercise in theology, a confirmation, finally, that there’s a believer inside Norman Mailer—original, but recognizably sprung from the Jewish and Christian traditions, and almost systematic.’ And this: ‘ . . . his edge in the competitive struggle with the secular storytellers of his generation is precisely this taste for metaphysics and theology.’ http://www.radioopensource.org/norman-mailers-long-view/

Guess I’ll have to go read The Castle in the Forest.

The NYTimes obit: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin