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Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

Originally published in The Rake’s “Broken Clock” roundup of short arts & entertainment reviews, December 20, 2002. Read the complete article on the original website. Published to coincide with Mailer’s 80th birthday, The Spooky Art gathers more than a half-century of essays, forming a bookend with his seminal 1959 collection Advertisements For Myself. As its subtitle implies, it’s …