The Spooky Art : Some Thoughts on Writing

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Summary: A course on being a writer
Review: This is not so much a book on writing as it is in being a writer. Through a series of essays, interviews and other texts, Mailer reflects on his experiences. Mailer's life is like no other writer's, so it's hard to imagine that this will help budding authors, but there is something reassuring about his questioning the quality of some of his works, his sudden rise to fame after the Naked and the Dead became a bestseller.

You won't get much concrete advice on writing, but it's a wonderful ride, reading these interesting words by one of America's greatest wordsmiths.