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• Of a Fire on the Moon,
• Wolfe became fascinated with the astronauts, and his competitive spirit compelled him to try to outdo Norman Mailer's nonfiction book about the first moon mission, " Of a Fire on the Moon ".
• While " Of a Fire on the Moon " takes time to praise NASA in the aftermath of the successful moon launch, its poignant publication in the months following the launch comes as a sobering blow to the consciousness of Americans who have yet to dissect the moon launch as anything other than a moment of American supremacy.
• Most recently, he edited " Moonfire : The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 " ( Taschen 2009 ), an abridged version of Mailer s 1971 narrative, " Of a Fire on the Moon ", with hundreds of NASA photographs; and Norman Mailer / Bert Stern : " Marilyn Monroe " ( Taschen 2011 ).
• It's all in there : Pieces of the novels from the'50s and'60s like " The Deer Park " and " An American Dream, " the groundbreaking nonfiction of " Armies of the Night " and " Of a Fire on the Moon, " the breathtaking leaps of " The Executioner's Song " and " Harlot's Ghost ."
• "Of a Fire on the Moon " ), a brilliant piece of Americana ( " The Executioner's Song " ), two huge oddball novels, one about Egypt ( " Ancient Evenings " ), the other about the CIA ( " Harlot's Ghost " ), and a steady but wasting trickle of minor works about everything from Marilyn Monroe to graffiti to Lee Harvey Oswald.
• Over the next four years Lennon interviewed 86 people, including his ex-wives, children, cousins, sister, nephew, and many close personal and literary friends, including Don DeLillo, Gay Talese, Robert Silvers, Barbara Probst Solomon, David Ebershoff, Ivan Fisher, Eileen Fredrikson, Lois Wilson, Carol Holmes, Tina Brown, Harry Evans, James Toback, Nan Talese, Dotson Rader, The Fight ", " Marilyn ", and " Of a Fire on the Moon " for Taschen books.
• Selected texts that deal with the ancient world, however, appear out of sequence at the end of the volume . ( Mailer s explanation :  Nobody is perfect .  ) Excerpts from Mailer s most notable works, including " The Naked and the Dead ", " Advertisements for Myself " ( 1959 ), " Superman Comes to the Supermarket " ( 1960 ), " The Armies of the Night " ( 1968 ), " Miami and the Siege of Chicago " ( 1968 ), " Of a Fire on the Moon " ( 1970 ), and " The Executioner's Song " ( 1979 ), as well as several works in their entirety, including " The White Negro : Superficial Reflections on the Hipster " ( 1957 ), " The Time of Her Time " ( 1959 ), and various transcribed and annotated interviews with the likes of William F . Buckley, Gore Vidal, Kate Millett, and John Ehrlichman.