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Anyone read Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon<\/a>\"\"? I came across it in this neat article<\/a> about the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. This article about the book<\/a> hasn’t convinced me either way to buy it or avoid it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anyone read Norman Mailer’s Of a Fire on the Moon? I came across it in this neat article about the 40th anniversary of the moon landing. This article about the book hasn’t convinced me either way to buy it or avoid it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[765],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-norman-mailer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-14X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1773,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mailers-ghost","url_meta":{"origin":4151,"position":0},"title":"Mailer’s Ghost","author":"Gil","date":"November 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I guess \"Norman Mailer, Outspoken Novelist, Dies at 84,\" is better than \"Norman Mailer, Novelist Who Stabbed His Wife, Dies at 84.\" I found Charles McGrath's obit more entertaining than any of the Mailer I've tried to read, and I hope someday I can \"reliably be counted on to make\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1362,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/mental-health-day-part-2","url_meta":{"origin":4151,"position":1},"title":"Mental Health Day, Part 2","author":"Gil","date":"February 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"\"You can love completely without complete understanding.\" --Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It","rel":"","context":"In "travel"","block_context":{"text":"travel","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1693,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/norm","url_meta":{"origin":4151,"position":2},"title":"Norm!","author":"Gil","date":"October 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Nothing in this \"interview\" budges me off my long-held opinion that Norman Mailer is a relic of the cold war. (Update: your gnostic-y views on reincarnation notwithstanding, get well soon!)","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":314,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/fighting-for-des-moines","url_meta":{"origin":4151,"position":3},"title":"Fighting for Des Moines","author":"Gil","date":"August 23, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"A Marine helicopter pilot in Najaf wrote an opinion piece in the NYTimes today. Read it.Norman Podhoretz writes a long neocon interpretation of modern history and World War IV in Commentary. Read that, too.","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1835,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/downtime","url_meta":{"origin":4151,"position":4},"title":"Downtime","author":"Gil","date":"December 27, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Sorry for the lack of new posts, dear readers! It's sorta inconvenient to write here at my in-laws' home. That means no year-end Unrequired Reading post till this weekend, and probably no pix from our today's (overnight) New Orleans trip till then. But I bet they'll both be worth it.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "literature"","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1652,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/i-will-kick-norman-spinrad-square-in-the-nuts","url_meta":{"origin":4151,"position":5},"title":"I will kick Norman Spinrad square in the nuts","author":"Gil","date":"September 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"After work on Tuesday, I headed into NYC to attend my buddy Paul Di Filippo's reading at the South Street Seaport Museum. It was the kickoff of the 19th season of the New York Review of Science Fiction's reading series. 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