1976
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3.85
Average Rating
299
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A collection of Mailer's pieces on the political conventions of the 1960s and early 1970s including "Superman Comes to the Supermarket" from The Presidential Papers (1960); "In This Red Light" from Cannibals and Christians (1964); Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968); and St. George and the Godfather (1972).
Avg Rating
3.85
Number of Ratings
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Norman Mailer
Author · 42 books
Norman Kingsley Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. In 1955, Mailer, together with Ed Fancher and Dan Wolf, first published The Village Voice, which began as an arts- and politics-oriented weekly newspaper initially distributed in Greenwich Village. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from The National Book Foundation.
