Playbill
May, 1975
You may have heard of Norman Mailer: novelist, Pulitzer, Polk and National Book Award winner, master of personal reportage (he's been described as a "hip Boswell, a Dickens...of the New Journalism"), erstwhile candidate for mayòr of New York (he lost out to John Lindsay--remember John Lindsay?). If you know very much about Mailer, you know he's a devoted fan of--nay, obsessed with--the manly art of pugilism. Writing and prize fighting, Mailer once told movie critic Roger Ebert of the C...
