Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Armies of the Night – Norman Mailer (1968)

The Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer

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If you hated this novel, I would get it. I think even Norman Mailer would get it. But I really enjoyed it and really expected something very different, and given that I decided to pick this novel up after reading some journalism pieces of Mailer’s from about the same time period I should have not expected this novel to be any different from what it is. So, the subtitle tells you it’s not really a novel — history as a novel, the Novel as history. […]

Three Essays by Norman Mailer

Ten Thousand Words a Minute by Norman Mailer

Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling With Dots by Norman Mailer

In the Red Light: A History of the Republican Convention of 1964 by Norman Mailer

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1 There’s a funny part about a later essay in which Norman Mailer self-deprecatingly (or maybe closer to self-loathingly) talks about not knowing nearly as much about boxing as his reputation would have you believe. I am sure it’s more in the middle. Here, we ostensibly are getting an essay about boxing, but more so about boxing writing. Something about sports writing often elevates the sports to places that otherwise watching an event just can’t match. So having Mailer write more about the act of […]



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