The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer
The Spooky Art, Norman Mailer
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The Spooky Art
Thoughts on Writing

Author: Norman Mailer

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/13/2016


Synopsis

“Writing is spooky,” according to Norman Mailer. “There is no routine of an office to keep you going, only the blank page each morning, and you never know where your words are coming from, those divine words.” In The Spooky Art, Mailer discusses with signature candor the rewards and trials of the writing life, and recommends the tools to navigate it. Addressing the reader in a conversational tone, he draws on the best of more than fifty years of his own criticism, advice, and detailed observations about the writer’s craft.Praise for The Spooky Art“The Spooky Art shows Mailer’s brave willingness to take on demanding forms and daunting issues.… He has been a thoughtful and stylish witness to the best and worst of the American century.” —The Boston Globe“At his best—as artists should be judged—Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure. There is enough of his best in this book for it to be welcomed with gratitude.” —The Washington Post“[The Spooky Art] should nourish and inform—as well as entertain—almost any serious reader of the novel.” —Baltimore Sun“The richest book ever written about the writer’s subconscious.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer“Striking…entrancingly frank.” —Entertainment Weekly

About Norman Mailer

Born in Long Branch, NJ, in 1923, and raised in Brooklyn, Norman Mailer was one of the most influential writers of the second half of the 20th century and a leading public intellectual for nearly sixty years. He is the author of more than thirty books. The Castle in the Forest, his last novel, was his eleventh New York Times bestseller. His first novel, The Naked and the Dead, has never gone out of print. His 1968 nonfiction narrative, The Armies of the Night, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He won a second Pulitzer for The Executioner’s Song and is the only person to have won Pulitzers in both fiction and nonfiction. Five of his books were nominated for National Book Awards, and he won a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation in 2005. Mr. Mailer died in 2007 in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peycho on March 16, 2016

One does not simply just read Norman Mailer - one devours him. Great work again from the Master!......more

Goodreads review by Charles on December 07, 2009

My review ran in the San Jose Mercury News on February 2, 2003: As a student, I once found myself part of a group trying to make conversation with a writer-in-residence, Bernard Malamud. The talk reached several dead ends before Malamud mentioned that he had been asked to submit nominations for the N......more

Goodreads review by Cannon on October 26, 2012

This is not a book on writing. It's a collection of random, mostly tedious and arrogant, thoughts Mailer had for like three years then duped someone into publishing. I could talk to a drunk MFA student for an hour and get the same insights.......more

Goodreads review by Taylor on January 31, 2017

I’ve read many books on the craft of writing. The most interesting ones are memoir types, the sort of books that don’t deal just with the mechanics of writing, publishing, marketing, training, etc., but that examine the psyche of the writer, the struggles and pains of writing a book and creating art......more

Goodreads review by Sam on September 08, 2008

too much about himself. not enough about writing.......more