Norman Mailer

One of the first examples of "new journalism" daringly combines reportage with a novelistic style and garnered Mailer his first Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award in 1968.

History as a Novel, the Novel as History

The Armies of the Night

The novelists interpretes and dramatizes the October 1967 anti-war demonstration in Washington and the issues and politics involved

Bloviating? Yes. But a cleareyed portrait of the time. Some moving moments when Mailer described the protestors and their reasons for joining the movement.  

You might find the prose florid, and dated. I did. But in those days to be a "real writer," I suppose you had to write that way. 

Lee Schneider

Bloviating? Yes. But a cleareyed portrait of the time. Some moving moments when Mailer described the protestors and their reasons for joining the movement.  

You might find the prose florid, and dated. I did. But in those days to be a "real writer," I suppose you had to write that way. 

The Armies of the Night History as a Novel, the Novel as History

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