Norman Mailer
Bombed and sapped and charged…
Thursday, October 18th, 2007Coincidentally, we’ve been reading Norman Mailer’s collection of essays on writing, The Spooky Art. In the chapter he devotes to his epic and chemically-assisted struggle to finish “The Last Draft of The Deer Park,” we came across a passage that we first read in Donald Newlove’s literary study/alcoholism memoir Those Drinking Days: Myself and […]