The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

â€œWriting is spooky,â€ according to Norman Mailer. â€œThere 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.â€ 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 writerâ€™s craft.
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Praise for The Spooky Art
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â€œThe Spooky Art shows Mailerâ€™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.â€â€”The Boston Globe
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â€œAt his bestâ€”as artists should be judgedâ€”Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure. There is enough of his best in this book for it to be welcomed with gratitude.â€â€”The Washington Post
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â€œ[The Spooky Art] should nourish and informâ€”as well as entertainâ€”almost any serious reader of the novel.â€â€”Baltimore Sun

â€œThe richest book ever written about the writerâ€™s subconscious.â€â€”The Philadelphia Inquirer
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â€œStriking . . . entrancingly frank.â€â€”Entertainment Weekly
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Praise for Norman Mailer
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â€œ[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation.â€â€”The New York Times
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â€œA writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.â€â€”The New Yorker
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â€œA devastatingly alive and original creative mind.â€â€”Life
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â€œMailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance.â€â€”The New York Review of Books
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â€œThe largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book.â€â€”Chicago Tribune
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â€œMailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream.â€â€”The Cincinnati Post

From the Hardcover edition.

Country	USA
Brand	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0812971280_used
Model	0812971280_used
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2004-02-10
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812971286

The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing

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