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“Norman Mailer on Anger and Love.” Lifelines: Unusual Characters Tell Their Stories, by Marie-Louise Von Der Leyen. Munich: Piper Verlag. Omnibus interview in which Mailer discusses WWII, Orson Welles, his visits to Moscow, marriage, his wife Norris, and the unconscious: “The unconscious mind is almost a separate creature within you that has its own needs and its own demands. As a writer you should definitely pay attention to it.”