That book had caused no small source of embarrassment for him. At this point, Mailer was taking on quite a bit of work for-hire, and he had already felt like a whore for writing Marilyn, the coffee table book about Marilyn Monroe for which he had been paid the (then) princely sum of $50,000. This book wasn’t supposed to be one of those epoch-defining projects that was going to clean out the marrow of the body politic, a book that would give the Nobel committee no choice but to nominate him for the prize. The following post from NBCC member Marc Weingarten concludes the In Retrospect series look back at Norman Mailer and “Executioner's Song,” his 1979 nonfiction novel which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction.ġ) When Norman Mailer in the late 70’s embarked on the work that would turn into The Executioner’s Song, he really didn’t have any idea where the project might take him.
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