Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays

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'Few of us dare death. With the trinity of booze, coffee, and cigarettes, most of us voyage out a part of the way into our jungle and come back filled with pride at what we dared'

Mind of an Outlaw brings together the best of Mailer's essays, as he writes on Marilyn Monroe, culture, ideology, boxing, writers from Hemingway to Freud, politics, sex, celebrity and Norman Mailer. It spans the full arc of Mailer's evolution as a writer, from his early 'A Credo for the Living', published when he was just twenty-five, through such essential pieces as his acclaimed 1957 meditation on hipsters, 'The White Negro', to his final writings from the years before his death. Filled with his trademark swagger, wit and exuberance, this collection represents the definitive Mailer, and forms a portrait of the preoccupations of a nation in the last half of the American century.

Edited by Phillip Sipiora
With an Introduction by Jonathan Lethem

'A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent.' New Yorker