(P/B) THE SPOOKY ART

Παρουσίαση

"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. (From the publisher)

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A Preface with Three Warnings and One Apology
PART I
LIT BIZ
Lit Biz
Writing Courses
The Last Draft of The Deer Park
Best-sellers
Reviews, Publicity, and Success
Social Life, Literary Desires, Literary Corruption
CRAFT
Hazards
Style
First Person Versus Third Person
Real Life Versus Plot Life
Instinct and Influence
Stamina
A Coda to "Craft"
PSYCHOLOGY
Legend and Identity
Living in the World
Mind and Body, Ego and Work
Gender, Narcissism, Masturbation
The Unconscious
PHILOSOPHY
Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment
Attacks on Reality
Social Vision
Moral Vision
Being and Nothingness
Miscellany: Pornography, Picasso, and Aphorisms
PART II
GENRE
Genre
Journalistic Research
Television
Film
The Occult
GIANTS
Tolstoy
Huckleberry Finn - Alive at 100
Oddments on Hemingway
The Third Test
D. H. Lawrence
A Lagniappe for the Reader
The Argument Reinvigorated
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Index