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Thoughts on Writing by Norman K. Mailer ’43—a hodgepodge of literary interviews, prefaces, essays, anecdotes and aphorisms—would seem little more than the outpourings of a mind wrapped up in itself...
Written by Mailer, who after a half-century at the heart of American culture is perhaps more myth than man, the book is a timely spiritual autobiography and a fitting companion-piece to his recent retrospective The Time of Our Time...
...probably takes 20 years to appreciate book reviewing for what it is—a primitive rite,” writes Mailer to novelists facing poor reviews, preempting any criticism of his own book...
...Spooky Art is more a book about Mailer than a systematic survey of literature as an industry, a practice, or a canon—though it treats all of these themes...
Diverse maxims appear within its pages, many of which Mailer sutured together into an article in a late December issue of The New Yorker: “the most powerful leverage in fiction comes from point of view” (found in an analysis of the last draft of his third novel, The Deer Park); “film is best when ambiguous” (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found...