#new-journalism

I read half of The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer’s gargantuan, Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction novel about Gary Gilmore – and figured I could put it down and move on.

I picked up this book to learn about Norman Mailer’s writing style. He really is a very good chronicler.

Decades ago, The New Yorker and other magazines experimented with the journalistic form by introducing literary techniques into it.

Awesome read about an accomplished writer’s career and life.